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Are nanitcs dumb?

Started By Temperateants , Sep 27 2019 4:07 PM

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#61 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted September 29 2019 - 10:54 AM

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This is true lol


we just need someone like Cardi B to start ant keeping lol


There is a important time for everything, important place for everyone, an important person for everybody, and an important ant for each and every ant keeper and myrmecologist alike

#62 Offline ANTdrew - Posted September 29 2019 - 11:25 AM

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Expectation: My friends are going to love hearing about this cool ant behavior I just witnessed!

Reality: Eyes glaze over in a stuper.

Truth!
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"The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer." Prov. 30:25
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#63 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted September 29 2019 - 11:27 AM

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Expectation: My friends are going to love hearing about this cool ant behavior I just witnessed!

Reality: Eyes glaze over in a stuper.

Truth!

 

More true than we ant keepers want it to be lol


There is a important time for everything, important place for everyone, an important person for everybody, and an important ant for each and every ant keeper and myrmecologist alike

#64 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted September 29 2019 - 11:34 AM

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Expectation: Pogonomyrmex occidentalis are worth $100

Reality: they die for literally no reason.
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#65 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted September 29 2019 - 11:35 AM

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Thanks THA!


There is a important time for everything, important place for everyone, an important person for everybody, and an important ant for each and every ant keeper and myrmecologist alike

#66 Offline drtrmiller - Posted September 29 2019 - 12:07 PM

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Expectation: Pogonomyrmex occidentalis are worth $100

Reality: they die for literally no reason.

 

I'm old enough to remember when a very well-regarded "P. Occidentalis [sic] Specialist" wrote that if you spend that much, there is a "nearly 100% success rate."


Edited by drtrmiller, September 29 2019 - 2:25 PM.

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#67 Offline Da_NewAntOnTheBlock - Posted September 29 2019 - 12:11 PM

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Expectation: Pogonomyrmex occidentalis are worth $100

Reality: they die for literally no reason.

 

I heard that when you spend that much, there is a "nearly 100% success rate."

 

Not 100% though

like 1 % of antkeepers get real sad when their 100 dollar pog. colony dies


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There is a important time for everything, important place for everyone, an important person for everybody, and an important ant for each and every ant keeper and myrmecologist alike

#68 Offline ponerinecat - Posted September 29 2019 - 3:55 PM

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Expectations: people will like my hobby

Reality: no I'd rather shun you


Expectations: ants are good pets

Reality: I like dying for the heck of it


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#69 Offline Manitobant - Posted September 29 2019 - 4:14 PM

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Expectation: ants will show visible signs of sickness before they die

 

Reality: oh, a completely healthy ant colony with lots of brood? it'd be a shame if they... suddenly died

 

Expectation: ants will work tirelessly to care for and protect the brood

 

reality: I'm just gonna leave this here and forget about it, maybe feed it once in a while

 

Expectation: queens that don't have wings have successfully mated and vice versa

 

Reality: queens are weird creatures and like to confuse antkeepers


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#70 Offline Temperateants - Posted September 29 2019 - 5:26 PM

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relatable


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#71 Offline ANTdrew - Posted September 29 2019 - 6:05 PM

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Expectation: women would respect ants as the most successful matriarchal social animal in the history of the planet.
Facts: most consider them disgusting nuisances.
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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.

#72 Offline Manitobant - Posted September 29 2019 - 6:34 PM

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Expectation: parents of antkeepers will recognize that not all ants are pests and that most don't care about you or your house

Reality: boomers are paranoid creatures that associate all ants with ruined picnics and infested cabinets
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Polyergus Mexicanus: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry175528
Lasius minutus: https://www.formicul...cs/#entry174811
Lasius latipes: https://www.formicul...gs/#entry206449
General acanthomyops journal: https://www.formicul...yops-with-eggs/

#73 Offline ANTdrew - Posted September 29 2019 - 6:39 PM

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This thread turned out to be really funny.
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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.

#74 Offline FSTP - Posted September 29 2019 - 7:06 PM

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Expectation: Spend many hours researching and reading scientifc journals to gain even more insight on ant behavior and taxonomy. Build and design custom formicariums for your ants kepp many different Genra that require a multitude of care techniques. Very proud of your ant keeping experiences...

 

Reality: Random acquaintance asks what you do for fun, you say antkeeping, they say, "Oh like those ones you get at the toy store from uncle whoever??? my 7 year old son has one of those" 


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#75 Offline TennesseeAnts - Posted September 29 2019 - 7:08 PM

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#76 Offline Temperateants - Posted September 30 2019 - 8:42 AM

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Expectation: Spend many hours researching and reading scientifc journals to gain even more insight on ant behavior and taxonomy. Build and design custom formicariums for your ants kepp many different Genra that require a multitude of care techniques. Very proud of your ant keeping experiences...

 

Reality: Random acquaintance asks what you do for fun, you say antkeeping, they say, "Oh like those ones you get at the toy store from uncle whoever??? my 7 year old son has one of those" 

That annoyes me too! When I talk about my hobby, people always think of the cheap Uncle Milton farms or those crappy gel farms


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#77 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted September 30 2019 - 9:01 AM

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Expectation: Queens are such loving, caring mothers. 

 

Reality: They eat their children at the first sign of danger.


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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#78 Offline RushmoreAnts - Posted September 30 2019 - 9:11 AM

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Expectation: Lasius and Formica have "unmissable" flights. (In the words of Mikey)

Reality: I missed every single Formica flight and only caught one neoniger queen this year.

(I say caught, but she was in a pool)

I believe it's probably the climate. It seems they are more common in Canada's prairie provinces and the upper midwest. Here the two genera are absolutely everywhere, and rule the environment with an iron fist. I would estimate that for every residential property, there are at least two colonies of Formica and five of Lasius. Although these estimates are the bare minimum, and many properties have as high Lasius colony density as a colony every ten square feet or higher. As far as dealate queens go, I find at least one Formica, and Lasius DO have unmissable flights, with thousands or even millions of queens flying in every direction imaginable. 


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"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version

 

Keeping:

Tetramorium immigrans

Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea

Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra

Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

Pheidole bicarinata

Myrmica sp.

Lasius neoniger, brevicornis

#79 Offline Kaelwizard - Posted September 30 2019 - 11:21 AM

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Expectation: Pogonomyrmex occidentalis are worth $100

Reality: they die for literally no reason.


I'm old enough to remember when a very well-regarded "P. Occidentalis [sic] Specialist" wrote that if you spend that much, there is a "nearly 100% success rate."

Expectation: people who are very smart about ants can also be nice.
Reality: they can’t and will end your social life.

#80 Offline DDD101DDD - Posted September 30 2019 - 1:40 PM

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Expectation: Pogonomyrmex occidentalis are worth $100

Reality: they die for literally no reason.


I'm old enough to remember when a very well-regarded "P. Occidentalis [sic] Specialist" wrote that if you spend that much, there is a "nearly 100% success rate."

Expectation: people who are very smart about ants can also be nice.
Reality: they can’t and will end your social life.

 

Are you referring to someone specific? 


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