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#481 Offline bmb1bee - Posted July 30 2022 - 3:37 PM

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ichi byo ga keika

ni byo ga keika
san byo ga keika
yom byo ga keika
wu byo ga keika
roku byo ga keika
ROAD ROLLER DA! WRYYYYYYYY

 

 

LOL! Glad you get the reference! I was worried that no one would understand my meme template.  :lol:


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#482 Offline ColAnt735 - Posted August 6 2022 - 7:13 PM

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Me and anyone who can help me every time an ant escapes:

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"If an ant carries an object a hundred times it's weight,you can carry burdens many times your size.

#483 Offline futurebird - Posted August 7 2022 - 5:03 PM

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A wise woman once said. "It's foolish to get in an argument with a cat." But, little did she know... there are things even more further foolish still: getting in an argument with a bunch of ants.


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#484 Offline bmb1bee - Posted August 15 2022 - 3:42 PM

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#485 Offline futurebird - Posted August 18 2022 - 4:18 PM

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I was really happy to film "social carrying today" And it also inspired more silliness. 

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I bet nearly everyone had a relative with this on the wall:

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Ok that was strange... who is this "ant christ" ?

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Oh no! 


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#486 Offline Serafine - Posted August 18 2022 - 5:26 PM

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Yes, this has an ant referrence. Give it some time.

 

 

Fantastic series btw (and basically the grandfather of every single non-episodic modern tv series with a multi-season plot) - CGI may not have aged well but everything else still absolutely holds up today.


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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
Keep ordinary ants in extraordinary ways.

#488 Offline Serafine - Posted August 20 2022 - 4:46 AM

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That's gonna get very interesting once you encounter a gynandromorph...


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#489 Offline FloridaAnts - Posted August 20 2022 - 10:52 PM

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That's gonna get very interesting once you encounter a gynandromorph...

Do ants even have those?

 

Also, Antdrew, just for using a picture of C. Floridanus i will make a crematogaster journal


#490 Offline futurebird - Posted August 20 2022 - 11:25 PM

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gynandromorphs are pretty common among ants, and they are nearly always bilateral. Interestingly you can have a gynandromorph where one side is a queen and the other is a worker. 


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#491 Offline Serafine - Posted August 21 2022 - 3:16 AM

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That's gonna get very interesting once you encounter a gynandromorph...

Do ants even have those?

Yes, all insects and birds can have them. Mammals can't because their sex dimprophism works on a layered top-down scale (opposed to a decentralized cellular scale like in birds and insects) so instead of two different body halves you'll get all sorts of in-between states but no assymetry.

Not sure about fish and amphibians/reptiles.


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#492 Offline FloridaAnts - Posted August 21 2022 - 10:02 AM

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gynandromorphs are pretty common among ants, and they are nearly always bilateral. Interestingly you can have a gynandromorph where one side is a queen and the other is a worker. 

That sounds actually pretty unique. What are the odds of a worker split queen in Camponotus?(After colony is a year-two old, containing 500+ workers)

 

Can a gynandromorph queen/worker lay eggs?


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#493 Offline Serafine - Posted August 21 2022 - 10:40 AM

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They are a very rare genetic mutation/misshap. As far as i'm aware they're infertile.


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#494 Offline FloridaAnts - Posted August 21 2022 - 7:47 PM

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They are a very rare genetic mutation/misshap. As far as i'm aware they're infertile.

Apparently some birds that are those can. Can you get a drone/queen morph? That would be interesting!


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#495 Offline bmb1bee - Posted August 22 2022 - 6:47 AM

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They are a very rare genetic mutation/misshap. As far as i'm aware they're infertile.

Apparently some birds that are those can. Can you get a drone/queen morph? That would be interesting!

 

I got a drone/queen gynandromorph in my Monomorium ergatogyna colony once. I thought it was a drone originally, but then it looked really weird, it was asymmetrical and was missing a wing on one side (which I think is the queen side).


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#496 Offline FloridaAnts - Posted August 22 2022 - 7:43 AM

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They are a very rare genetic mutation/misshap. As far as i'm aware they're infertile.

Apparently some birds that are those can. Can you get a drone/queen morph? That would be interesting!
I got a drone/queen gynandromorph in my Monomorium ergatogyna colony once. I thought it was a drone originally, but then it looked really weird, it was asymmetrical and was missing a wing on one side (which I think is the queen side).

There needs to be a gynandromorph topic

#497 Offline NicholasP - Posted August 24 2022 - 7:04 PM

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I was really happy to film "social carrying today" And it also inspired more silliness. 

g4zc826.png

I bet nearly everyone had a relative with this on the wall:

EOdTERy.png

Ok that was strange... who is this "ant christ" ?

BEWfa4u.jpg

Oh no! 

I don't know why but screamed of laughter on the ant carrying the cross with the Obama head. I don't know why but it's really funny.


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#498 Offline bmb1bee - Posted August 24 2022 - 7:30 PM

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Barack Obamant exists?!?!  :o


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#499 Offline That_one_ant_guy - Posted August 29 2022 - 1:29 PM

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Boy ain't no way image.png here's the link,https://www.backyard...s-have-a-queen/just scroll down to see ant love at its finest, wink wink

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#500 Offline futurebird - Posted August 31 2022 - 6:04 AM

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I always liked this bird's nest meme

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so I made an ant version

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