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How Ants Survive Flooding by Forming Giant Rafts
National Geographic ^
| 10/06/2015
| Brian Clark Howard
Posted on 10/09/2015 10:23:05 AM PDT by Purdue77
When waters start to flood a fire ant colony, they take evasive action. Worker ants link legs and mouths together, weaving a raft in a process that can take less than two minutes (see pictures).
(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalgeographic.com ...
TOPICS: Outdoors; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: die; fireants; should
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Was there any rational reason for letting these things survive???
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posted on
10/09/2015 10:23:05 AM PDT
by
Purdue77
To: Purdue77
That’s why I use boiling water to eliminate them.
To: Purdue77
Others don’t leave when they are told it will flood and depend on government to remove them like the hand of God.
Ants 1, humans who depend 0.
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posted on
10/09/2015 10:25:02 AM PDT
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Purdue77
Yes. We must import illegals.
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posted on
10/09/2015 10:26:10 AM PDT
by
Safetgiver
( Islam makes barbarism look genteel.)
To: A CA Guy
Kinda what I was thinkin’. Ants smarter/more adaptable than us.
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posted on
10/09/2015 10:26:15 AM PDT
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: Purdue77
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posted on
10/09/2015 10:27:15 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: rktman
Some have a nature to work, others to beg.
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posted on
10/09/2015 10:27:34 AM PDT
by
A CA Guy
( God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: Purdue77
Wow God Is Great!
Thank you Life Carriers for you hard work.
Some day they will know!
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posted on
10/09/2015 10:29:18 AM PDT
by
Uversabound
(Our Military past and present: Our Highest example of Brotherhood of Man & Doing God's Will)
To: Safetgiver; JoeProBono
It is diversity until it eliminates all other opposition.
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posted on
10/09/2015 10:32:18 AM PDT
by
Purdue77
To: Purdue77
Letting them survive?
Ha!
As if humans could exterminate them if we wanted to. These guys are survivors like cockroaches, you’ll never be rid of them.
To: Purdue77
Did they build a 25 horse Evinrude outboard motor too?
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posted on
10/09/2015 10:34:21 AM PDT
by
blueunicorn6
("A crack shot and a good dancer")
To: Purdue77
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posted on
10/09/2015 10:34:50 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: A CA Guy
Parable of the Ant and the Grasshopper comes to mind.
To: Purdue77
My boys used to play peewee football and after a heavy rain (Florida) there would be puddles of water on the field. There were occasionally small rafts of fire ants in the puddles. It is amazing how fast a little kid can shed his jersey, shoulder pads, helmet, and sometimes their pants, too, after rolling thru one of these rafts...
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posted on
10/09/2015 10:36:07 AM PDT
by
Afterguard
(Liberals will let you do anything you want, as long as it's mandatory.)
To: Boogieman
“These guys are survivors like cockroaches, you’ll never be rid of them.”
The Moslums of the insect world.
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posted on
10/09/2015 10:38:16 AM PDT
by
Autonomous User
(During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.)
To: Purdue77
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posted on
10/09/2015 10:42:11 AM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(SOME IMAGES MAY BE DISTURBING VIEWER DISCRETION IS ADVISED;-{)
To: Autonomous User
I was going to say the “Keith Richards” of the insect world.
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posted on
10/09/2015 10:43:40 AM PDT
by
dfwgator
To: Purdue77
You have to admire their group IQ and survival instinct but did it have to be demon fire ants?
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posted on
10/09/2015 10:44:26 AM PDT
by
JimSEA
To: Purdue77
(see pictures).
NO! Ants totally creep me out.......
To: Purdue77
A few drops of Dawn will fix this problem.
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posted on
10/09/2015 10:47:20 AM PDT
by
AppyPappy
(If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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