Crazy raspberry ants invade Houston, destroy electronics Posted: 2 years ago by lynxears
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!
The only (and small) good news is they eat fire ants.
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Chocolate Covered Ants Posted: 2 years ago by sholom22
Ingredients –
100 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
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Ants More Rational Than Humans? Posted: 4 months ago by kakana
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.
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Tarantulas, snakes, fire ants lurk in Texas floodwaters Posted: 1 year ago by deEPCHIll
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."
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Electronics shopping? Look online for bargains Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
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.
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Crazy woman.. just, crazy Posted: 3 years ago by yoornotme
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.
It's an ebaum's link, but it's good, I promise.
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Move over fire ants -- here come needle ants Posted: 12 months ago by Bornbad
The name alone is enough to induce a shudder: the Asian needle ant.
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Time Lapse of Ants Eating A Gecko Posted: 1 year ago by lostsoul135
A bunch of ants devour a dead gecko from flesh to bone in a matter of a hours. Pretty cool time lapse.
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Baby Fire Ants Play Dead When Attacked Posted: 2 years ago by doggylives
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.
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From Ants! Natures Secret Power Posted: 1 year ago by Bornbad
Ants! I understand they are also good chocolate coated.
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Butterflies trick ants into raising young Posted: 2 years ago by dollyllama
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...
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Ferocious ants bite like a bullet Posted: 3 years ago by Jaxomlotus
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.
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Study reveals how ants talk to each other Posted: 9 months ago by AutumnLotus
Next time you see an army of ants scurrying around, bear in mind that they may be following orders.
For 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.
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Philips Electronics Adopts a New Name Posted: 3 years ago by arrch8
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.
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Ants fitted with radio transmitters for scientific study Posted: 7 months ago by AutumnLotus
Tiny radio transmitters were fitted to ants by scientists to study their house-hunting habits.
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Digital Ants will protect your computer Posted: 1 month ago by Ankabout
Modeled after the workings of a real ant colony, scientists have created 'digital ants' that can protect your computer from viruses and worms.
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The Great Internet Migratory Box Of Electronics Junk... Posted: 8 months ago by bingo
...is sort roving flea market meets Internet meme.
The 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
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Come celebrate - Get whipped by clowns and showered by fire ants! Posted: 3 years ago by BrownTrout
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?
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Researchers Make New Electronics -- With A Twist Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
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.
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'Stench of life' prevents ants from being buried alive Posted: 7 months ago by Bornbad
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'.
*word of the day...Pupae*
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Ants create a lifeboat in the Amazon jungle Posted: 1 year ago by AutumnLotus
A flood hits a fire ant colony in the Amazon jungle. An amazing chance to see footage on how the species has adapted to water to protect their queen.
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