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I will get on a boat and sail away forever.
Normally this would just be a thing that a person says, but I'm a good sailor, know my boats, have been on long journeys before and plan on doing this anyway at some point.
The only downside is how I wanted to use all of the nice weather data to avoid the storms but there are other ways. I would need to be more cautious in my crossings and read the almanacs, learn the signs of a bad sea.
And if I drown I drown. Goodbye.
@spacelizard
Polyrhachis ammon would be my guess then.
However this is a tricky one!
?Que es un hexagerardo?
Are ghost ants invasive where you live? Small ants like that are very dependent on a consistent source of fresh clean water. Is it possible to dry things out so they won't come back when the baits are gone or dried up?
FYI Hagiomyrma are a "species group" which I have come to understand means that even myrmecologists will get them mixed up. (It really means there is variation over a large region, and some questions about hybrids maybe existing. So they put everyone in a subgenus. )
Did she have those little fuzzy gold hairs on the top of her head at all?
I'm torn between Polyrhachis uncaria and Polyrhachis ammon based on the lit. which also says these two are hard to tell apart.
I was *so* excited to tell you "Spiny Ant from the genus Polyrhachis" but that is all I can do without looking at the books. Which I will do in a moment.
HOWEVER there are those strange ants from Spain who do have a separate "royal bloodline" ... but those ants can't reproduce without the complementary colony...
https://www.science.org/content/article/ant-queen-lays-eggs-hatch-two-species
Hymenopteran genetics are wild.
Ants don't really have monarchy or royal bloodlines. All of the workers of a colony are more closely related to the queens offspring (their sisters and future queens) than they would be to their own children if they mated and laid eggs.
If they could have a male offspring that would not be true. But, they are kind of aligned with the goal of raising the queen's eggs.
And the queen isn't in charge at all.
Chimps also have "wars" but it's more like gang violence than a human war.
Only ants do war like people.
Having read several books by people who became fascinated by ants I can say that watching ants will *do things to you* --I think it's the combination of the their unexpected complexity then the one two punch of these creatures being totally alien while at the same time some of the only creatures that do things that people do:
* agriculture
* public works
* networking
* traffic
* war
etc.
Possibly spotted right here in NYC!
It was birdy this morning on the banks of the Hudson River in lower Manhattan. I’d seen nine warbler species, Baltimore Orioles, a brilliant Scarlet Tanager…
10,000 Birds (www.10000birds.com)
"Carbonated Swamp Warbler" sounds like something you drink when you visit New Orleans and then you don't remember the rest of the trip.
But, it's actually one of a handful of birds that Audubon painted but no one can seem to find it anymore.
A cryptid!
I'd think only the insects might be worthy.
Is the cicada from a 32x32 grid or 16x16?
I'm working on the ant. Maybe I should have started with something easier... 
Since he was writing about 50s army guys I just assumed that's how they were... kind of ... you know... wooden.
I'm not the only one who thinks about this!
Design Challenge: In the tiny kitchen I must have TWO objects on the floor that I trip over: 1. Waste Basket (Because it's an apartment it's like those at the office, small and simple a bucket.) 2. step stool (because i am short) It seems to me that this could be somehow made into one object. A garbage can I could stand on. Yes I could turn it over but I think you can see how that is not ideal. Any designers out there looking for their big break?
Sauropods.win (sauropods.win)
Seems convenient?
