I just assumed it was because the ants were breaking it up to dump outside their tunnels. Seems to have been pretty close, but I never would have thought about ant saliva.
Spitballin'
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Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 hour ago
OR3X@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Ant spit. Nice.
lauha@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Any antomologists here? Is this true or just made up?
Hadriscus@jlai.lu 12 hours ago
ever since the tilted burgers hoax I find myself questioning every bit of realistic-sounding factoid
Elgenzay@lemmy.ml 11 hours ago
I was absolutely expecting a similar punchline at the end of this one
erictile@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Yes.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 12 hours ago
Zomg@piefed.world 9 hours ago
Thanks I’ve kinda wondered too
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
Same I’ve been worried about this
MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
So it gets hard when they spit on it, just like your mom does to my dick.
fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk 11 hours ago
The area around the hole is covered in the dirt and saliva of the hundreds who come in and out of the hole every day, eventually producing so much spit and fifth, that it creates a small dirty hill around the edges of the hole.
Not unlike, I suspect, the contents of your mother’s knickers.
j/k
WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 13 hours ago
I found that boiling water was the best way to kill the nests that were too close to the house.
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
I wondered that myself . . .
Hairyfishnuts@feddit.online 14 hours ago
It’s gonna rain.
Fizz@lemmy.nz 1 hour ago
I’ve never seen ants make a hill in New Zealand. Why don’t our ants build hills? These seem like the same common black ants I see everywhere else.
icelimit@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Because they’re ant hobbits