Everyone should have a pet ant colony because when you wake up in the morning you can look in on them and they are all always so busy trying their best to organize their little world.

myrmepropagandist

Everyone should have a pet ant colony because when you wake up in the morning you can look in on them and they are all always so busy trying their best to organize their little world. It's very inspiring how they are always so excited to make little piles sorting all of the objects in their space.

The carpenter ants decided to move their main trash pile a few days ago and they are just completing the project this morning. All of the debris are neatly piled in corner for me to collect.

myrmepropagandist

I still maintain that it ought to be possible to domesticate ants that would help you keep your electronics lab clean. They would be so good at sorting parts into little bins.

I don't know if they could sort used resistors by the band value, but they could separate the resistors from the LEDs and logic ICs.

Ollie Boermans

@futurebird I need some really big ants that can handle Lego. How’s their colour perception?

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@ollicle @futurebird Ants are blind, but maybe we could mark bricks with different pheromones.

myrmepropagandist

@gerbrand @ollicle

Some ants have poor vision, some are blind, but many ants can see color and would be able to sort lego. Ollie has identified the biggest problem: for ants most lego are too big and heavy to move easily.

But there are very large ants such as bull ants (which also have excellent vision) and the Giant Forest Ant who would be well-suited to this task.

Likewise ant teamwork could also help out with the lego sorting problem.

Chebucto Regional Softball Club

Everyone should have a pet ant colony because when you wake up in the morning you can look in on them and they are all always so busy trying their best to organize their little world.