My Ant Farm
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Can't think of anywhere in the world where ants live on blue jelly, I'm sure you could make a human version of blue nutritous jelly WE could all survive on, but who wants to??and it seems the perfect medium to harbour a virus. In captivity you havn't given them the chance to procreate au natural so to speak, with no prince and princess there's no fertilised ant babies so no on-going community consisting of subsequent generations of the tribe. In purchasing this ant cage, you assure them of depression and death.
I once followed a trail of incredibly busy ants, for over a 100 feet, fascinating to the Nth, I watched them for far too long to be sane. But they seemed very productive and purposeful,...and free! Some chewing leaves into smaller pieces, others transporting the pieces, others scouting etc. etc. Trapped in a perspex box of blue jelly, with no where to go, nothing to do and no hope of survival, seems cruel. They're such canny little creatures Pilot, it would be much kinder to let them have a nest in your garden, you could have hours of endless fun, and not have to watch them d*e for it!
I once followed a trail of incredibly busy ants, for over a 100 feet, fascinating to the Nth, I watched them for far too long to be sane. But they seemed very productive and purposeful,...and free! Some chewing leaves into smaller pieces, others transporting the pieces, others scouting etc. etc. Trapped in a perspex box of blue jelly, with no where to go, nothing to do and no hope of survival, seems cruel. They're such canny little creatures Pilot, it would be much kinder to let them have a nest in your garden, you could have hours of endless fun, and not have to watch them d*e for it!
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When I read CJ's post i found myself agreeing-she made those productive ants sound so... so.. so.. attractive.
But the reality is I am a really heartless person. If i see a little line of ants industriously making their way across my bench or my wall, out comes the insect spray and down goes the ant rid and i think.. d*e, ants, d*e.
pilot, if you want to make an ant's day, just toss a few breadcrumbs into the blue jelly, that should keep them occupied a few hours.
But the reality is I am a really heartless person. If i see a little line of ants industriously making their way across my bench or my wall, out comes the insect spray and down goes the ant rid and i think.. d*e, ants, d*e.
pilot, if you want to make an ant's day, just toss a few breadcrumbs into the blue jelly, that should keep them occupied a few hours.
Cut me, do I not bleed, OMG CJ I was feeling distraught and now I feel like a murderous hostage taker too.
There she sits on her blue jelly waiting for the call
The blue jelly was made by NASA scientists as a nutritional food and living medium combined, when they took ants up in the space shuttle to see how they behaved in zero gravity. But you are right CJ, I have no right to imprison the little beggers for my amusement, as self punishment I will have a cheap Chilean plonk tonight instead of my vintage South Australian Chardonnay.
There she sits on her blue jelly waiting for the call
The blue jelly was made by NASA scientists as a nutritional food and living medium combined, when they took ants up in the space shuttle to see how they behaved in zero gravity. But you are right CJ, I have no right to imprison the little beggers for my amusement, as self punishment I will have a cheap Chilean plonk tonight instead of my vintage South Australian Chardonnay.
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Mmmmm, Mr A. A. do you think he would like it down at the farm CJ?
John all ants are female except once a year the queen lays a male egg and another queen egg, these two chosen ones fly off, mate on the wing and the male dies straight after mating, the new queen forms a new nest, all her eggs are female, until she has one male egg the following year and so on. All ants in a nest are sisters. Mr A is a female.
John all ants are female except once a year the queen lays a male egg and another queen egg, these two chosen ones fly off, mate on the wing and the male dies straight after mating, the new queen forms a new nest, all her eggs are female, until she has one male egg the following year and so on. All ants in a nest are sisters. Mr A is a female.
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Mr A is still fit and well she seems to have had a new lease of life, its more than a week now since she was left all on her own and she is very active today I was thinking of joining Mr A up as a member of Sanddancers in her own right, after all we shouldn't discriminated on grounds of species.
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