Harime Nui posted:

relevant!

quote:

Ant feminism is an ideology that is broadly defined as an opposition to feminism or some aspect of feminism. The meaning of ant feminism has varied across time and cultures and it has attracted both men and women. Ant feminism may include beliefs such as general hostility towards women's rights,[1] the belief that feminist theories of patriarchy and disadvantages suffered by women in society are incorrect or exaggerated,[2][3] or that feminism as a movement encourages misandry and seeks to harm or oppress men.

wikipedia posted:

Supercolonies

Until 2000, the largest known ant supercolony was on the Ishikari coast of Hokkaidō, Japan. The colony was estimated to contain 306 million worker ants and one million queen ants living in 45,000 nests interconnected by underground passages over an area of 2.7 km2 (670 acres).[2] In 2000, an enormous supercolony of Argentine ants was found in Southern Europe (report published in 2002). Of 33 ant populations nested along the 6,004-kilometre (3,731 mi) stretch along the Mediterranean and Atlantic coasts in Southern Europe, 30 belonged to one supercolony with estimated millions of nests and billions of workers, interspersed with three populations of another supercolony.[3] The researchers[which?] claim that this case of unicoloniality cannot be explained by loss of their genetic diversity due to the genetic bottleneck of the imported ants.[citation needed] In 2009, it was demonstrated that the largest Japanese, Californian and European Argentine ant supercolonies were in fact part of a single global "megacolony".[4]

Another supercolony, measuring approximately 100 km (62 mi) wide, was found beneath Melbourne, Australia in 2004.[5]

blainestereo posted:

That photo doesn't showcase bullet ant's beautiful mandibles nearly enough, here is a better one, slightly spoiled by an ugly watermark:

platedlizard posted:

I just learned about super-colonies

273423-X posted:

Isn't there already an ant thread in PI? Oh well, I'll post here as it will probably get more traffic

I've been thinking about getting an ant farm for a while now and I've decided on getting a gamergate species, as it's an unusual behaviour I want to observe for myself. At the moment I'm thinking Rhytidoponera metallica, as they look absolutely stunning.



Does anyone have any experience keeping Rhytidoponeras species? Any other species recs?

Neurolimal posted:

female ants that can reproduce with male ants (but not their goony worker ant brothers) when the colony lacks a queen

LaTex Fetish posted:

i started keeping bees and it really surprised me that sometimes you just gotta murder the queen because she was poo poo. when that happens they just make their own new queen.

it felt awkward, just squishing the queen. i felt horrible.

LaTex Fetish posted:

i started keeping bees and it really surprised me that sometimes you just gotta murder the queen because she was poo poo. when that happens they just make their own new queen.

it felt awkward, just squishing the queen. i felt horrible.

Kylra posted:

What constitutes a poo poo queen anyway?

Luvcow posted:

Is the honeypot over?

Kylra posted:

What constitutes a poo poo queen anyway?

DrPlump posted:

I thought this thread was about #GamerGate because of the name. I guess it is actually about ants? Boy is my face red you fellas sure pulled a fast one on me.

CharlestonJew posted:

is there a different kind of #GamerGate I'm not aware of? Could you please explain it to me in great detail?

DrPlump posted:

Nope just the any thing haha lol

orangesampson posted:

Bholder posted:

Ants are stupid

Mappo posted:

All this gamergate ants talk makes me want to buy an ant farm like the one I had as a kid.

Stick Figure Mafia posted:

Lotta good ant links in this thread. Thank you all. I am learning a lot about my ants.
My Labidus's recently wrote the words "HATE" in their farm using tunnels, should this be reason for concern?

Catalina posted:

Why not play an ant farm video game

Archonex posted:

It actually started all the way back with Depression Quest. I remember the creator got a ton of threats. Which the OP covered. However since the focus shifted off of Depression Quest to Gamergate I haven't met too many people (Though admittedly the ones who did thought the Gamergate thing is ridiculous. Though there's always that one creepy guy. ) who even know this poo poo is still going.

Hell, I pride myself on being extremely up to date with industry news and I didn't even know this was actually this big of a thing.

The thread really should exist just for that alone. I didn't even know that these people were still doing this crap until I read it. I imagine there's a fair number of people who are looking at "Gamergate" and figure it's the usual publisher dickery or some other similar thing.

platedlizard posted:

Where do you order certain species of ants? All the ant farms I know of just have the same species , I wasn't aware you could order different ones.

Stick Figure Mafia posted:

Paladinus posted:

I think I've won gamergate. Whatever it is.