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@ubi

I am horrified at the suggestion.

But you can be the food tester.

some were probably poisonous.

Consider the qualitative difference between watching a rotifer and watching an insect.

The rotifer is alive, it reacts. But it's like a little machine in the way that people THINK insects are like machines.

We need to bring them all back and find out.

Thinking about the early arthropods in the Cambrian seas. We know that they had a nervous system and brains from fossil evidence.

Many modern arthropods have more complex brains, and there isn't anything exactly like these early simple brains.

So, I wonder if you were to watch these creatures feeding and hunting would it be different from watching modern arthropods?

I think it might.

Could they hide? Did they get frustrated?

@McRocker @photovotary

This is the best and funniest possible answer.

I think one needs to know CNC nerds to get nice versions of this type of thing.

@becomingwisest @vga256

Quite the epic tale taken all together?

@vga256

Thank you!

Did you know that leafcutter ants will drop leaves sometimes rather than carrying them down?

Though they often just fall with the leaf.

At the local natural history museum their ant colony hardly ever does these kinds of falls because there is a mote around their feeding area and the ants seem aware of the danger.

And now I have another idea for an experiment.

With an invention like the helistat you can at least understand the appeal. Who has not stood in a remote location looking at your destination over trees and past mountains and thought "god dang it what if we could just fly it over there?"

This is "An Invention" maybe not a good one. But it makes (some) sense.

There are other new technologies that are just as unstable and nerve-wracking too look at but they somehow also lack this basic quality: a reason to exist.

@sealperez

I think you need to uhhhh re-flash the BIOS or something on that one.

@KateOfMind

I bought it on Abebooks. I collect books about ants. Please don't tell anyone.

@Phosphenes

The "King James" version of the bible uses "it" rather than "she" ... but in some other texts they get the pronoun right for a worker ant which makes me wonder if some people knew that all of the workers are female or if it's just a coincidence.

@Phosphenes

I think they are both copying proverbs 6:6

Look to the ant lazy one,
consider her ways and be wise,
She has no boss, no overseer or king,
yet she stores provisions in summer
she gathers her food at harvest.

It's important for those of you who may have written, or might yet write a book to know that nearly every book that I've liked *this* much wasn't some big hit. Not some acclaimed work.

It was just a book that finally found one of the people who would love it.

And your audience is out there too.

It might be like six people, but will you deny them freedom?

You ever read a book that you liked so much that you thought "if I were in prison, but I had this book I would not mind at least until I was done reading it"

@jopabinia.bsky.social

myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)

Attached: 1 image This book is SO GOOD. Someone on here told me to read it. I want to read it like a podcast with commentary. I have many comments. #books #ants

Sauropods.win (sauropods.win)

@jopabinia.bsky.social

IT WAS YOU

myrmepropagandist (@futurebird@sauropods.win)

WHO told me to read "Consider Her Ways" by Frederick Philip Grove? Someone on here told me about this book... This books is: * amazing * a little bonkers, can't believe it's real * hilarious ... wall to wall ant jokes Let me share a passage: "She went so far as to assert that, if nature had not given man to ants, ants would, at least in these parts, have had to invent or to breed something much resembling man in order to subsist in safety." 1/

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@Phosphenes

That's a different story. I'm talking about the book about ants by Frederick Philip Grove

It's nice to know that someone else who has watched ants has noticed that comport themself as if the planet were made for them and they have conquered it. They shape the landscape, farm, raise livestock, and organize all of their affairs and it really makes human people look... messy when you glace up from the anthill.

And yet! It's not like ants are peaceful or meek. They have their warlike moments, deceptions, and more.

So these things are not products of the human mind alone.

@FediThing

This book is much older than that book I wonder if it was an inspiration.

The book Phase IV is **terrible** please skip that one.

The fire ants LOVE humans and find us useful. Our narrator is less impressed.

"In the third place, it has been rumoured that man also keeps cattle; and from that fact it has been inferred by certain bold speculators that he must have reached a social and intellectual stage little below
that of certain ants, though not the most highly developed kinds."

The Author (A leaf-cutter) Musing about humans.

3/3