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[futurebird]

1. waddle
2. hide, by hiding just the head
3. get excited when given pupae
4. more waddling
5. fuss over any air currents, carefully block with sand one grain at a time
6. curl up and sleep like puppy
7. be fat

[zA-Z0-9]

dies when first workers arrive

 

picky eater (trapjaw queen) 

 

cute as pie but ugly some days (kinda like my little sister lol )

 

paces back and forth pulling cotton from both sides .for the first few days

 

drinks all the water in what feels like no time at all 

 

always manages to pisss you off at least once like moving all the brood and workers to the door so you can't feeed them

Edited by zA-Z0-9, August 7 2021 - 1:32 PM.

[Manitobant]

Parasitic lasius queens:

- die if not given hosts in time

- die with hosts for literally no reason

- die in hibernation

- lay eggs and then die

- colony collapses once hosts are replaced by bio workers and they die

[Chickalo]

Camponotus queens:

- 89.68% chance of infertality

 

- Dies midway through founding

 

- Pulls more cotton in her life time than your average ant queen could ask for

 

- Aggrösive

 

- Slow imagined on a new (lower) level

Edited by Chickalo, August 7 2021 - 4:42 PM.

[Kaelwizard]

Solenopsis xyloni:

 

- Nothing bothers her

 

- Survived who knows how long in a pool

 

- Seems to barely care for her eggs but lays more in a specific spot

 

- Eggs seem to survive despite her seemingly never tending to them

 

- Is a known aggressive species but is by far the most chill queen I have ever had

 

- Does absolutely NOTHING but sit and twirl her antennae

[SYUTEO]

Odontoponera denticulata:

 

- Places her trash pile at the cotton

 

- The only queen I found during a previous trip

 

- Rejected termites despite being a species that's known to hunt termites

 

- Never letting her larvae pupate even when given substrate for some reason

 

- Ate her first pupa after finally letting it pupate

 

- Ate her first worker after three painful months of taking care of her

 

- Ate her last remaining brood after her worker died

 

- Refused to lay more eggs even when given food

[futurebird]

formica:

 

*hear a pin drop >>> fly into a panic 

*survive somehow anyways.

*also be fat

[ANTdrew]

Crematogaster:
- charms you with waggling heart-butt
- intuitively knows every escape route
- defeats fluon before breakfast
- outcompetes rodents at gnawing through crap
- charms you into keeping them anyway

[futurebird]

* is it Brood boosting? Or delicious “free burritos”?? it's so hard to tell

[FSTP]

Myrmecocystus mexicanus

 

- Get super fat

- Go crazy and try biting your finger

- Dig for two minutes moving around the same three bits of sand.

- Die in a position that looks like you're still alive.

- Have your butt fall off when trying to be fed because you've been dead for a week.

Edited by FSTP, August 13 2021 - 3:41 PM.

[B_rad0806]

Any ant I have:

 

BECOME STUPID

[NickAnter]

The only sure things in life are death and stupidity.

Good old Ben Franklin. Got so many great, modifiable quotes..

[CheetoLord02]

Pheidole rhea:

Absolutely braindead. Big head no thoughts.

Stubby little antennae. Looks like they belong on a bicarinata minor.

Constantly leaking eggs. I don't even think she can control it.

Helps the colony break down seeds even though they have 2 majors that don't do anything.

Somehow is able to gaster flag, despite her massive badonkadonk. Really need to get that on video.

All width, no height. Flatter than a pancake.

Bigger than several Camponotus queens, because she can.

[ZTYguy]

Acromyrmex versicolor:

Kills fungus almost every chance given.
Cut one leaf at a time when being watched.
Leaves gone by time you get lunch.

[NickAnter]

Parasitic Lasius:
PANIC!
PANIC!
There is a slight disturbance, "children," we must run for our lives!
And did I mention...
PANIC!
Oh, and queens seem to like to walk with their wings sticking up.

And...
PANIC!

[AntBoi3030]

Prenolepis imparis:
Take three weeks to lay eggs
Grow slower then camponotus
Eggs are her favorite snack
Acts super chill and then next time behaves like Formica and goes nuts
Decide to undergo diapause mid-founding in may

[Kaelwizard]

Crematogaster:

Escaped from a completely closed container when I was gone. It was literally completely closed when I got back so I’m not sure how they got out.

[ANTdrew]

Crematogaster:

Escaped from a completely closed container when I was gone. It was literally completely closed when I got back so I’m not sure how they got out.

Of course they did.

[eea]

camponotus sansabeanus:

 

sleeps all day

 

climbing on the ceiling and falling down

 

just loves to stare at the ground

 

ignores her larvae 

 

gets scared very easily from the smallest vibrations

 

is just very lazy

[Chickalo]

Lasius brevicornis:

 

Has to get her 3 month long beauty sleep before she's ready to lay

 

Once she's ready to lay she enjoys the exotic dish known in many places as "cannibalism" or "eating your children"

 

Mine took over a year and still hasn't gotten workers

 

Enjoys founding with besties for anywhere from a week to a couple months, until she decides that her besties should die

 

Tetramorium immigrans:

 

Couldn't care less if you flipped her tube

 

S##ts out eggs faster than girls running from me

 

Makes me look like an amateur when it comes to sleep deprivation

 

When workers come suddenly me moving them less than a centimeter means "OH MY GOD THE WORLD IS ABOUT TO END"

Edited by Chickalo, September 13 2021 - 2:43 PM.