Ants!!!!

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 4:47 pm

The Cyndi's are doing ok. They really haven't done much building though. I think I should have waited and gotten them in a summer month.

Post by **thefirst** » Mon Mar 17, 2008 5:51 pm

Are they in a room where they get a lot of daylight? Just curious, I really know nothing whatsoever about keeping ants.

Post by **aliantha** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 5:11 pm

sgt.null wrote:Like all insects, ants have six legs. Each leg has three joints. The legs of the ant are very strong so they can run very quickly. If a man could run as fast for his size as an ant can, he could run as fast as a racehorse. Ants can lift 20 times their own body weight. An ant brain has about 250 000 brain cells. A human brain has 10,000 million so a colony of 40,000 ants has collectively the same size brain as a human.

I can think of three or four one-liners from this post, just off the top of my head....

Post by **sgt.null** » Tue Mar 18, 2008 7:15 pm

thefirst wrote:
sgt.null wrote:have they grown. do they have mid control powers yet?
MID control?

supposed to be mind.

me typing...

Post by **thefirst** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 4:06 am

Post by **Cagliostro** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 12:56 pm

sgt.null wrote:
supposed to be mind.

me typing...

Y'know, if you get an infinite number of them, one of them will come up with a script for Hamlet.

Post by **MsMary** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:28 pm

What a lame post!

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:30 pm

The Cyndis get plenty of daylight during the day and then it's dark at night. I just think they might be hibernating or supposed to be hibernating...

Post by **thefirst** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 6:13 pm

I was just curious, I know that my snakes, even though they get artificial light as well, seem to be sensitive the lesser daylight hours in winter and they are a lot less active.

Post by **Cagliostro** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:42 pm

All my "ants" are now dead, and I'm no longer itching. Hurray for modern medicine.

Post by **thefirst** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:44 pm

OH Cag, do we have to explain the difference between ants and fleas again?

I edited this before I got in trouble again!

Post by **Cagliostro** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 7:50 pm

Not fleas. But "ants" in my pants.

Okay, have I taken this joke too far? It started early on, and the momentum has died down so............

I really don't have crabs, folks. I just want to state that, particularly to the people who will be sharing a living space with me in a few months. The only thing foul about me right now is my sense of humor, my belly and bits of my bottom.

Post by **thefirst** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 8:02 pm

I'm not sure how to respond, but I guess, glad to know that you're "bits" are improving?

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 9:29 pm

Cagbro, Glad to hear that your saber toothed crotch crickets have been exterminated.....

(sorry, couldn't resist)

Post by **sgt.null** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:03 am

Cameraman Jenn wrote:Cagbro, Glad to hear that your saber toothed crotch crickets have been exterminated..... (sorry, couldn't resist)

sorry for high-jacking your thread here from time after time.

Post by **Cameraman Jenn** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:26 pm

Hijack all you want! I don't mind.

Post by **Auleliel** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:04 pm

I agree with CJ, your hijacking brings me much amusement, sarge.

Post by **sgt.null** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:17 am

The life of an ant starts with an egg. If the egg is fertilized, the ant will be female (diploid); if not, it will be male (haploid). Ants are holometabolous, and develop by complete metamorphosis, passing through larval and pupal stages (with the pupae being exarate) before they become adults. The larval stage is particularly helpless — for instance it lacks legs entirely – and cannot care for itself. The difference between queens and workers (which are both female), and between different castes of workers when they exist, is determined by the feeding in the larval stage. Food is given to the larvae by a process called trophallaxis in which an ant regurgitates food previously held in its crop for communal storage. This is also how adults distribute food amongst themselves. Larvae and pupae need to be kept at fairly constant temperatures to ensure proper development, and so are often moved around the various brood chambers within the colony.

Post by **Auleliel** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 10:33 pm

That was very educational.

Post by **sgt.null** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:41 am

Noun
Singular
aunt
Plural
aunts

aunt (plural aunts)

a sister of someone’s parent
a sister-in-law of someone’s parent; a wife of someone’s uncle
(also great-aunt or grandaunt) a person's grandparent's sister.
(usually auntie) a grandmother.
an affectionate term for a woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.

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Ants!!!!