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If I kill a big ant on my patio, a bunch of little ants appear and carry it away

Posted on 05/20/2021 3:23:02 PM PDT by SamAdams76

It was so good to go to my supermarket this afternoon and see several people with no masks. Finally, we are dispensing with this nonsense. This was in Danbury, CT.

Anyway, it's pretty amazing how much weight (relative to their own weight) that little ants can carry.

It's just the weirdest thing.

When I smash a big ant on my patio, suddenly a bunch of little ants surround it and carry it away. To where, I have no idea. But they are taking it someplace and they evidently have a purpose. They are quite organized. I often wonder what goes on inside their little brains.

It's almost like the little ants serve as undertakers for the bigger ants.

Sometimes this one tiny ant is carrying this humongous large ant all by itself. You should try it and see for yourself.


TOPICS: Outdoors
KEYWORDS: ants; vanity; wildlife
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To: SamAdams76

“When I smash a big ant on my patio”

Uhhhh no, there was nothing left to carry away if you “smashed” it other than a little liquid spot on the cement. Try setting this up again.


61 posted on 05/20/2021 5:27:42 PM PDT by DAC21
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To: DAC21

I smash it with my finger and there is still plenty for the little ants to carry away.


62 posted on 05/20/2021 5:29:10 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (Give me a Pigfoot and a Bottle of Beer)
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To: JohnBrowdie

Hey, its crown...we understand.


63 posted on 05/20/2021 5:46:09 PM PDT by mcshot (OMG! I'm now labeled as a cult member for being anti mask and a no vaxxer.)
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To: SamAdams76

What’s worse than ants in you pants ? Uncles in them


64 posted on 05/20/2021 6:06:39 PM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom Hi Dad)
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To: mewzilla

THEM! - Nimoy and Parker - Leonard and Fess - THEM!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHvs7CzZWWk


65 posted on 05/20/2021 6:15:07 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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To: central_va
All fire ants must die.

Yes.

66 posted on 05/20/2021 6:22:26 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

Nutria problem solved yet? Rodents that burrow in a levy preventing water from inundating the neighborhoods 18 feet lower elevation, might be more on point?


67 posted on 05/20/2021 9:45:18 PM PDT by Ozark Tom
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To: SamAdams76

I like the food here.


68 posted on 05/21/2021 1:16:56 AM PDT by Trillian
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To: Salamander

Proverbs 6:6.


69 posted on 05/21/2021 2:18:34 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: SamAdams76
Ants, when there is something that they can cart off for food, they are on it. Saw something strange. Heard a chewing noise and saw what looked like pencil shavings falling from a wooden beam at a picnic cover.

A large black wasp was making a raid on some other insect’s abode. Once it chewed a large enough opening, the wasp then kicked 6 grubs that had been in the lair to the ground.

It wasn’t 5 seconds before ants were on the grubs,(still alive), carting them off to their doom.

Nature, it’s brutal.

70 posted on 05/21/2021 2:30:15 AM PDT by csvset (tolerance becomes a crime when attached to evil)
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To: BenLurkin

One of my favorite movies growing up.


71 posted on 05/21/2021 2:40:05 AM PDT by McGruff
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To: SamAdams76

Ha!

thanks for posting :)


72 posted on 05/21/2021 7:24:14 AM PDT by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accountant, gun-totin' Grandma - multi issue voter)
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To: jmacusa

Indeed


73 posted on 05/21/2021 1:19:10 PM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans
this worthless nonsense should be on Facebook instead of here

No, no, no...you've got it all wrong. The OP is merely the vehicle for dozens of responses guaranteed for multiple belly laughs, which enhance the health of the reader.

IOW, Sam is doing a public service by starting this thread.

BTW, my ants are like the Dallas Cowboys: they haven't done squat in 25 years.

74 posted on 05/21/2021 1:31:59 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: SamAdams76

There’s an excellent Far Side cartoon of a bunch of ants carrying a baby and they’re met at the entrance of the nest by another ant who is yelling “You idiots! We’ll never get that thing down the hole!’’


75 posted on 05/22/2021 12:01:45 AM PDT by jmacusa (America. Founded by geniuses . Now governed by idiots.)
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans; SamAdams76

I wasn’t going to comment
Until I came upon
This post and,,
.
Forgot what I was
Going to write,,,
But it will
Come to me.


76 posted on 05/22/2021 1:43:52 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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To: SaxxonWoods

A laborious Ant
.
Mark Twain.

Thanks.
.


77 posted on 05/22/2021 3:12:54 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (Be Still and Know that I Am God. Rev 19)
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