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Started By CamponotusLover , Mar 7 2017 10:54 AM
welp idk

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#1 Offline CamponotusLover - Posted March 7 2017 - 10:54 AM

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hello i deleted everything i regret making this forum, because i lack the knowledge of everything about ants my joke is a failure and apparently needs to be corrected by several people saying the same thing please stop replying thanks g'day. ok


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#2 Offline Nathant2131 - Posted March 7 2017 - 11:19 AM

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Nice! Here is some video I took of them when they were active:







Edit: whoops wrong topic!!!!

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#3 Offline CamponotusLover - Posted March 7 2017 - 11:24 AM

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Nice! Here is some video I took of them when they were active:







Edit: whoops wrong topic!!!!

Nice! I subbed and liked each one! And its fine ye


#4 Offline Batspiderfish - Posted March 7 2017 - 11:28 AM

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The queen isn't really the leader. She depends on her worker clones to care for her, and the workers depend on her to maintain the fitness of the colony. It's actually more complicated than that, but all the decisions in the colony are determined by the colony as a whole, and the queen really does little more than eat, lay eggs, and be moved around by her cohorts (other than maybe competing with any other queens in the colony.)


Edited by Batspiderfish, March 7 2017 - 11:29 AM.

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#5 Offline CamponotusLover - Posted March 7 2017 - 11:56 AM

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The queen isn't really the leader. She depends on her worker clones to care for her, and the workers depend on her to maintain the fitness of the colony. It's actually more complicated than that, but all the decisions in the colony are determined by the colony as a whole, and the queen really does little more than eat, lay eggs, and be moved around by her cohorts (other than maybe competing with any other queens in the colony.)

 

welpp this is a sad waste of a joke.


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#6 Offline Alabama Anter - Posted March 7 2017 - 3:19 PM

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This 100% belongs in playground

YJK

#7 Offline ctantkeeper - Posted March 7 2017 - 5:41 PM

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This 100% belongs in playground

agreed.


#8 Offline Leo - Posted March 7 2017 - 7:25 PM

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This 100% belongs in playground

agreed.

 

yep


#9 Offline CamponotusLover - Posted March 7 2017 - 9:25 PM

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This 100% belongs in playground


What is that supposed to mean?

#10 Offline MichiganAnts - Posted March 7 2017 - 10:30 PM

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its honestly more like a symbiotic relationship. The queen grows the colony while the workers feed and protect her. (i know some ants are an exception to this but still)


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#11 Offline Loops117 - Posted March 8 2017 - 7:39 AM

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its honestly more like a symbiotic relationship. The queen grows the colony while the workers feed and protect her. (i know some ants are an exception to this but still)

Symbiotic relationship would be between species, or even the founding stages of a parasitic colony. But with the queen and her offspring, it's not. The queen is there to govern and rule when she starts, but after which the decisions are made by the colony as a whole. Don't think of them as a bunch of bugs, but more as one body governed by a democracy. The queen is their reproductive organ, brood and/or workers are their digestive track (species dependent) with certain castes built to do certain jobs. Without a queen, the colony can no longer reproduce and thrive, which is why they protect their reproductives with their lives. The brood is a vital part of the digestive track on many species, and can't eat certain foods such as solids without the aid of the brood.


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#12 Offline CamponotusLover - Posted March 8 2017 - 9:45 AM

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