[Other Sport] Ants: ****ing hard.

[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

I've just found out that ants can't die from being dropped. They can fall from any height and they won't die upon landing. That's nuts.

Where was this knowledge during the Worlds Hardest Creature years?

 

[Justice]

One bottle of ant powder and I wiped out a whole colony nesting under my kitchen window

 

[Wrong-Direction]

I got into a heated argument with an intellectual kid at school who didnt believe ants lived from being dropped from a height

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[Garry Nelson's Left Foot]

One bottle of ant powder and I wiped out a whole colony nesting under my kitchen window

On the flip side, you can drop one out of an aeroplane at 30,000 feet and it'll literally hit the ground running.

 

[Justice]

On the flip side, you can drop one out of an aeroplane at 30,000 feet and it'll literally hit the ground running.

Considering humans bones can break falling over from a standing position that does earn some respect to be fair.

 

[Wrong-Direction]

Considering humans bones can break falling over from a standing position that does earn some respect to be fair.

I looked into buying some pet leaf cutter ants once, fascinating...

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[rogersix]

I've just found out that ants can't die from being dropped. They can fall from any height and they won't die upon landing. That's nuts.

Where was this knowledge during the Worlds Hardest Creature years?

when push comes to shove dec's the top boy

 

[Palacefinder General]

I watched three ants ‘take down’ a bee on my back patio a few weeks back, fascinating to watch, one holding its leg down to stop it flying off, the other two attacking its head. I checked back an hour later and it was still going on, the bee losing the battle.

 

[Mental Lental]

Considering humans bones can break falling over from a standing position that does earn some respect to be fair.

Humans are shit though. Every time they appeared in the WHC I ed

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

Don’t mess with a Bullet Ant. No 1 on the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, and coming in at 1.5 inches long. It’s called The Bullet Ant because its sting is equal to being shot according to some victims.

 

[stewart12]

we've not had a Worlds Hardest Creature Contest this year have we?

 

[AmexRuislip]

Some ants have been known to get drunk and crash cars in Chiswick, not that hard IMO

 

[Super Steve Earle]

They used to be called black ants when I was a kid to distinguish them from red ants. They seem to just be called ants now. Different times.

 

[Grombleton]

I watched three ants ‘take down’ a bee on my back patio a few weeks back, fascinating to watch, one holding its leg down to stop it flying off, the other two attacking its head. I checked back an hour later and it was still going on, the bee losing the battle.

Should have filmed it...or livestreamed it and got some odds going on it.

 

[WATFORD zero]

If ants are hard, what does that make the green woodpecker in my garden ? Eats hundreds of the little buggers

 

[CheeseRolls]

We get all this nature stuff all the time about how humans are crowding out all other lifeforms and killing the planet. I am not saying this isn't true, esepcially for other mammals, but ants!! The largest ant colony measured was apparently 1,700 miles long. That is one huge city and they are all girls, the geezers just have one job, otherwise they are irrelevant.



This is a great read. Ants, termites and mitochondrion - deep respect!

 

[golddene]

we've not had a Worlds Hardest Creature Contest this year have we?

I noticed this too, maybe this is the wrong part of NSC thread section to post this but..... I believe the coronavirus bringing us covid19 has been nominated, seconded and selected as this years champ!! walkover apparently?

 

[stewart12]

If ants are hard, what does that make the green woodpecker in my garden ? Eats hundreds of the little buggers

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he wouldn't take on a woodpecker sized ant though would he

 

[OzMike]

I was renting a house on 10 acres whilst building mine here and once, when walking the dog around it with the kids, we witnessed a baby Dugite snake being attacked by a load of ants.
They were all over it and probably biting it furiously.
They kept it occupied whilst others were making the opening of the nest they had come out of larger, removing dirt and grit etc.
Then they all dragged it down into the hole, never to be seen again, fascinating to watch, though the kids were sorry for the snake, I just said it was a circle of life type of thing.
Dugites are very poisonous, especially the baby ones who can't regulate the amount of venom they inject.
The ants were just too many and too small to bite.

 

[Eeyore]

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Don’t mess with a Bullet Ant. No 1 on the Schmidt Sting Pain Index, and coming in at 1.5 inches long. It’s called The Bullet Ant because its sting is equal to being shot according to some victims.

My foot came off second best to a bull ant in NSW outback. It left its reminder.