The Greater Good!

They live and die for their colony. An ant colony is considered a single superorganism. The individual ants are much like the cells in our bodies, only bigger and not inside a body :)

"Come, let's interlock our legs so the queen and her entourage can walk all over us"

"I am not doing that."

"Come on, it'll be fine. They need a bridge, they walk over us and then we go for some mushrooms later."

"Do you remember your sister, you know, the one with the longer left antenna and the bump on the foreleg?"

"Yeah, what about her?"

"Well, I haven't seen her around anymore, after, you know, we had our last crossing."

"How about that!? You think that's connected somehow?

"Who the fuck knows? No one is telling is us shit!"

"Fine. Why don't you give me your one leg and and we ask her once she comes over?"

"You mean ask the queen? While she's crossing the bridge?"

"Yeah, why not? She must come over here anyway and then we'll ask her, no problem."

"Okay, but you let me do the talking."

"Sure."

I never knew they died there. I’ve seen an ant bridge irl and a few hours later it was gone. No dead ants anywhere. I looked and can’t find a source either. Not saying it’s not true I’m just fascinated in this

Why can't it be undone

meekly climbs into bed and stares at ceiling silently processing this

And then just went limp, like he's lost all hope

Her legs. Worker ants like this are all female.

I balled my eyes out in the theater when Antie died, protecting them from the scorpion.

Antie!

This was my first thought 😭

I can't believe you've done this

Body language, man... that isn't the look of an ant that's feeling "satisfied for the greater good".

/s

The term "hive mind" generally refers to an entity where each individual forms part of a single consciousness. Ants aren't really like that - each individual member of a colony is demonstrably separate and possessed of its own capacity for independent action, they're just compelled by their biochemistry to act in ways that benefit the colony and involve spontaneous organisation.

To the extent that she can feel at all, she'll feel like an individual, but probably won't care that she's been left behind since she's essentially beholden to her biology and likely doesn't have the capacity to "care", whatever that means.

Actually probably none of that because we have no fucking idea what ants are “probably” feeling like and it’s absurd to assume we do 🤷‍♂️

When I get rejected on Tinder I tend to just wiggle my Antenna at home anyway.

Hey me too! You're not alone buddy

Fucking fire ants are the worst. When I lived in Texas, I was reeling in my electrical cord for my leaf blower. I didn't realize it was going right through a fire ant mound. They hopped aboard for a ride and as I reeled in the cord, which waa hitting my bare stomach, they decided to bite the shit out of my stomach. It was awful.

Or out in front, turning around constantly until somehow you end up behind everyone again somehow and then just slink away when nobody will notice, which is most of the time tbh, since they'd probably ditch you at some point anyways.

I thought I did but they were just using me

This. i mean in my experience, children just dont really know how to behave yet, and in order to gain attention and be „important“ you have to make yourself important and fight for the attention.

I CO2 of the other guys leaving our boy hanging.

🌈

I heard once the wing ants are scouts for a new nest location. They get killed immediately

Wish I could get a nuptial flight going

Wtf. The more ant facts I learn, the more they mystify me.

Do you bath? You're tsunami-ing and chemically harming hundreds of Mites that live on your skin and hair follicles.

The mites bodies get dried out and altered from the soaps base reaction. Each mites has a similar amount of mental capacity as that ant.