UM-Bot Posted April 26, 2005 #1 Share Posted April 26, 2005 A fierce species of Amazonian ant has been seen building elaborate traps on which hapless prey are stretched like medieval torture victims, before being slowly hacked to pieces. With cunning and patience, Allomerus decemarticulatus worker-ants cut hairs from the stem of the plant they inhabit, and use the tiny fibres to build a spongy snare, Nature magazine reports. This ingenious feat of engineering has only ever been observed in one other species of related ant, French researchers say. View: Full Article | Source: BBC News Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stellar Posted April 26, 2005 #2 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Its true!!! The ants are going to take over the world! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zackery00 Posted April 26, 2005 #3 Share Posted April 26, 2005 If ants were smart enough to figure it out, and a little larger perhaps, they would infact take over the world. They only outnumber us by like 99,000,000,000,000 to 1. Tough odds if you are the human species. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grandpa Greenman Posted April 26, 2005 #4 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Anybody that has ever stepped in a fire ant mound know they don't have to be any bigger to take over the world. They have just about done it now in Florida. Darn, fire ants. They are the only bug that will make me resort to poison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STIX Posted April 26, 2005 #5 Share Posted April 26, 2005 We are doomed to an existance of torture at the mandibles of a ferocious tiny beast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whoa182 Posted April 26, 2005 #6 Share Posted April 26, 2005 They would pick you up with 1 finger... I mean mean leg If they were a bit bigger of course ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROGER Posted April 26, 2005 #7 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Never fear my friends, I and the Science from UFO's will protect you with our Flying Fleet of Lazar armed Asian Lady Bugs. And some thought they were PESTS! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zackery00 Posted April 26, 2005 #8 Share Posted April 26, 2005 (edited) Try putting Ladybugs up against a wall of Army Ants. How long do you think those gal's would last. I'm telling you, if ants were as big as we are... they would be the dominant species of Earth. Anyone here ever seen the movie Empire of the Ants? It is about mutant ants... Edited April 26, 2005 by Zackery00 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROGER Posted April 26, 2005 #9 Share Posted April 26, 2005 I'am not worried about size. Thats limited by Oxygen amounts in the air and how much their exoskeleton can move. But numbers? They reproduce faster than Humans, and you know how We Are! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walken Posted April 26, 2005 #10 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Thats scary. Very scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alliecatt Posted April 26, 2005 #11 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Never expect the ant Inquistion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walken Posted April 26, 2005 #12 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Lol Gotta' admit, normally you see those jokes coming Not this time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmonsoon Posted April 26, 2005 #13 Share Posted April 26, 2005 We are lucky that they cannot get large enough to present a danger to the human race. You see, the reality is not all things in nature scale well. What does that mean, it means what works for small things or numbers of things don't necessarily apply to larger things or larger groups of things. Case and point, by the time an ant got about a foot long, it's legs would no longer be able to support it's body. It would also lose the ability to carry things many times it's own weight. Ain't physics a BI__H. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panthera leo atrox Posted April 26, 2005 #14 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Amazing... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOriginalF Posted April 26, 2005 #15 Share Posted April 26, 2005 Yeah I was reading about this a few days ago...it's quite amazing, yet somehow very creepy at the same time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AztecInca Posted April 27, 2005 #16 Share Posted April 27, 2005 The ants have becoem pure evil from being around us far too much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doctor_Strangelove Posted April 27, 2005 #17 Share Posted April 27, 2005 (edited) I find that cool, but disturbing. Just as long as we have insect poison, no ants will take over. Edited April 27, 2005 by MJB222 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Gj Philosophy Posted April 27, 2005 #18 Share Posted April 27, 2005 hiya!!! wazzupp!! wazzupp!! i guess those ants enjoying the stuffs of BDSM or other torture stuffs. i wonder, what's look like a ladybug or maybe a black widow tied-up then flogged or spanked by those ants. hah ahaha hha hah h a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tia Posted April 27, 2005 #19 Share Posted April 27, 2005 Very scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dracunum3010 Posted April 27, 2005 #20 Share Posted April 27, 2005 They are really scary. Look what you might get if you accidentally step into a pond Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walken Posted April 27, 2005 #21 Share Posted April 27, 2005 I find that cool, but disturbing. Just as long as we have insect poison, no ants will take over. But what if they become immune to it? Just wondering, how does 'ant powder' work? How does it kill the ants? I just see them go white and spasm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crosswings Posted December 3, 2012 #22 Share Posted December 3, 2012 All I have to say is: Creepy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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