myrmecology

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• mmmm@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ants society seems to be much fairier than humans’. The only thing is that I can’t carry up 50 times my own weight

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  • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Except for the part where they breed captive aphids and corral them to and from plants so they can feed, only to lacerate their exoskeletons and feed on their secretions while keeping them alive to do it again…

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    • brown567@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Lacerate their exoskeleton? Do you have a source for that? According to Wikipedia, the honeydew is excreted from the aphids’ anus and happens even when the ants aren’t involved en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aphid#Ant_mutualism

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• Maroon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That is why Elsevier, Springer and publishing houses work so hard to paywall knowledge and keep it inaccessible, lest we become corrupted.

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• homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• Crazyslinkz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Anyone seen the Phineas and Ferb episode where ants are enlarged then evolve?

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• rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not to mention how badly we’d be outnumbered.

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  • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I think in mass, it’s even. So in number it’s beyond good and evil

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• rajarizer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• Malgas@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Doesn’t this imply that everyone who uses the library will become evil?

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• Fermion@feddit.nl ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ants already have taken over the world. They vastly outnumber humans and already live in just about every area humans do.

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  • chunes@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hmm, at least they haven’t taken over my kitchen. Yet.

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• swade2569@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  There’s a certain irony in the fact that a library IS a repository for knowledge.

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• antsu@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I, for one, welcome our minute overlords.

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• lath@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Can confirm. Taught ants to read Twilight and they began to sparkle in the sun. … On second thought, that might have been the sugar I bribed them with…

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• snoons@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Slippery Slope Fallacy smh my head a librarian should know better smh

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• red_sock@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I will eat this Danish and welcome, for one, our new insect overlords.

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• yellowfattybean@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe we should give the ants a chance at the helm. Humans really mucked up theirs

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• Rhaedas@fedia.io ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  It's true, watch the documentary "Phase IV". Preferably the director's cut.

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• Edge004@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The ants aren’t going to do anything. They just want to play some gungi

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