We're not sure where they came from, we don't really know how to stop them, and they're eating our electronics from the inside out! tags ants Texas electronics crazy raspberry antsThe only (and small) good news is they eat fire ants. picked by lynxears 1 year ago |
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Ingredients – 2 comments edit related share plime.com100 Live Black Ants (avoid red ants, their too spicy) 1 vanilla bean split and seeds scraped out 2 Egg Yolks 1 Tbsp. Sugar 1 tsp. Butter, melted 12 oz. Bittersweet Chocolate picked by sholom22 2 years ago |
Ants can accomplish a task more rationally than our – multimodal, egg-headed, tool-using, bipedal, opposing-thumbed – selves. This is not the case of humans being "stupider" than ants. Humans and animals simply often make irrational choices when faced with very challenging decisions. picked by kakana 4 months ago 4 comments edit related share science |
South Texans eager to salvage what they can from waterlogged homes struck by Hurricane Dolly have another problem. "You don't want to wade in this water," state Health Services Commissioner David Lakey said. "You don't want to play in this water. You want to stay out of this water." picked by deEPCHIll 1 year ago 0 comments edit related share world |
Here’s some good news for everyone who has electronics on their holiday shopping list. Chances are you’ll have a pleasant experience looking for that MP3 player, flat screen television, or computer – especially if you shop online. picked by dollyllama 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
Ants from an attacking colony will come up to inspect them, and they’ll be curled up just like a dead ant. Then moments later they uncurl and walk away. picked by doggylives 2 years ago 1 comments edit related share science |
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Ants! I understand they are also good chocolate coated. picked by Bornbad 12 months ago 0 comments edit related share science |
The name alone is enough to induce a shudder: the Asian needle ant. picked by Bornbad 11 months ago 4 comments edit related share world |
This crazy woman throws herself onto car and then onto the ground and screams. When a cop arrives, she gets up and yells at him in Hebrew(?) and asks if everyone would like for her to do it again. 0 comments edit related share weirdIt's an ebaum's link, but it's good, I promise. picked by yoornotme 2 years ago |
A bunch of ants devour a dead gecko from flesh to bone in a matter of a hours. Pretty cool time lapse. picked by lostsoul135 1 year ago 9 comments edit related share science |
Modeled after the workings of a real ant colony, scientists have created 'digital ants' that can protect your computer from viruses and worms. picked by Ankabout 2 weeks ago 3 comments edit related share plime.com |
...is sort roving flea market meets Internet meme. 3 comments edit related share plime.comThe idea, hatched by the guys over at Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories, is to send a box containing random electronics junk to somebody who would take a few pieces, write about them, add some item, and then send it on its merry way to somebody else. You can request a box or even start one of your own picked by bingo 8 months ago |
I couldn't tell where this video was actually taking place but it is a pretty bizarre annual festival. Some guys dressed like clowns run through the streets whipping people with sticks with festivities culminating in a shower of fire ants! Sounds like fun huh? picked by BrownTrout 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share plime.com |
Philips Electronics is adopting a new name and new strategy that relies on supplying chips to the fast growing consumer market for advanced electronics products. picked by arrch8 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share technology |
The butterflies deposit their larvae on marsh gentian plants where exploring ants find them, identify the chemical coating, and take the butterfly larvae back to the ant colony and feed them until they grow up and leave... picked by dollyllama 2 years ago 2 comments edit related share plime.com |
Trap-jaw ants bite with a force of over 300 times their own bodyweight. Uninvited visitors to a nest of trap-jaw ants can expect a vicious response. picked by Jaxomlotus 3 years ago 0 comments edit related share weird |
Next time you see an army of ants scurrying around, bear in mind that they may be following orders. 4 comments edit related share scienceFor scientists have shown that the insects talk to each other and are more intelligent than anyone ever realised. They discovered that ants communicate by stroking a natural 'washboard' on their abdomen with a body part that resembles a plectrum. picked by AutumnLotus 8 months ago |
Tiny radio transmitters were fitted to ants by scientists to study their house-hunting habits. picked by AutumnLotus 7 months ago 1 comments edit related share plime.com |
They've made electronics that can bend. They've made electronics that can stretch. And now, they've reached the ultimate goal -- electronics that can be subjected to any complex deformation, including twisting. picked by AutumnLotus 12 months ago 0 comments edit related share technology |
These destructive little varmints cause 6 billion dollars worth of damage a year in the USA alone, not to mention their bites burn like the poisonous flames of hell. Now scientists fight back with an ant-specific virus. picked by VooDooPeacock 3 years ago 7 comments edit related share plime.com |
Life really stinks for Argentine ants. New research shows that while alive, the ants produce two odoriferous chemicals that prevent their compatriots from immediately carting their bodies away to the 'morgue'. 4 comments edit related share science*word of the day...Pupae* picked by Bornbad 6 months ago |