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Their nests are made of the fungi they eat and unlike anything else I know that ants might build.
Does any other creature make a house out of edible fungi? What if you could just eat things from the walls of your house? These ants are so advanced. I thought paper making ants were wild!
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Aren't they adorable?
These ants move very slowly, gently tending their little farms. Just lanky hairy girls trying to make it in the jungle. You gotta love them. There are a nice collection of these ants on iNaturalist.
Some of them do seem to use leaves in their fungus, others do not. They are also on the larger size, towering over smaller ants in many photos.
These Apterostigma ants are really strange girls. I mean REALLY strange. They live under leaves rather like weaver ants, but they build a nest of fungi ... like leaf cutter ants... but they don't cut leaves-- they hide their nests with bits of bark.
No other ants are like this. Amazing.
Velvet ants are very fuzzy, but I wonder what is the most fuzzy true ant?
Tetramorium pulcherrimum: is covered in fuzz
Echinopla melanarctos is covered in spiky fur.
Apterostigma is a whole genus of ... unique... looking ants. I love them, but they have faces you need to need to love them to love. They are also very fuzzy and cute in a goblin kind of way...
I wonder what other ants are fuzzy.
ooooh! with turn signals too!?
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I was thinking more to give the stores a bunch of calls and make the manager feel put upon about taking such a bad stance. If at all possible quitting such a job is better. And perhaps for a couch to surf on if needed.
Were they in NY state I'd happily call them, possibly show up in person. I'll call them over there too, but I don't think a call from a random American lady would have as much weight.
You need to tell me who sent you this. This is CRIMINAL.
Listen. The first day of 5th grade is the first day in the "upper school" (technically the middle school) for many kids, and they are in a new building, they don't have a teacher who takes them from one class to the next in a group anymore. They have to go to lunch on their own.
The poor things look shell shocked all week. Like they have been left in the woods. I think they'd die if I told them they had to rent their desk too.
However, it might be amusing for the 6th graders.
Exactly.
It's very sweet how both of them seem to think this was a mistake. And not just a "bonus," totally intentional.
Any cat let outdoors alone will hunt, which is why they shouldn't be allowed outside unsupervised.
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OK maybe not peas, but I often think that Pica is a potato.
noooooooo!
They say our whole world is a great underground warren, but one where the light gets in and we can never predict when. Something strange is going on in our world. Will I ever know what it was?
I have many children and we have obtained much food. Their gasters are full and it is time to lay eggs for summer. But still... sometimes in my dark nest it is not dark, it is bright as they day that I flew in the air and founded this nest! There are vibrations, like a great ant digging her cloisters. An ant the size of the whole tree! My daughters tell me of the "ceiling of the sky" I remember when I flew as a young princess the sky went on forever. How could there be a ceeling to the sky?
They clean them and move them around every hour or so. Always a big crowd of ants focused on doing this 24/7
And here is the queen. She is very shy but look how large she is compared to the workers. It’s a pain to get a good photo of her without them hiding her away.
