What's this, an geopolitics article for ANTS?
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Ant Geopolitics
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There used to be SimAnt. The game worked great when you simply let it run itself without actually playing it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SimAnt
I'd play the heck out of an updated version that taught you more about ants while you played it.
Not sure about the teaching, but there's Empires of the Undergrowth and soon Empire of the Ants ?
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#73If you found this story interesting, you may be interested to know that antkeeping is a rewarding and fairly inexpensive hobby. The Global Ant Nursery (GAN) project run by AntsCanada, a popular YouTube channel, is a great way to obtain new queens responsibly. Alternatively, it’s fairly easy to find queens on your own. AntsCanada offers a starter guide, and there are many other resources that teach you when and where…
AntsCanada is a great gateway into antkeeping but I would beware about the GAN. I connected with someone listed on the GAN in my state. As I was working out the purchase and delivery, there were a lot of red flags, which I ignored because I trusted AntsCanada. The person said that they already gave away the species I wanted, but maybe I would be interested in other species instead. They pushed a species which isn't r…
I’ve also experienced this using GAN. Be wary and use common sense. I never bothered reporting it but I’d be willing to bet we’re talking about the same person. They listed the same advertisement in basically every state with a different Google Voice number so as to appear local.
I was under the impression that we would be meeting because they were local, which is how GAN is intended to operate.?Instead, they shipped the queen to me without any USDA permits. The queen also died within a few weeks of arriving. They started a web store not longer afterwards.
That said, I’ve had plenty of good experiences with GAN. This was one bad actor out of many good ones.
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#74If you found this story interesting, you may be interested to know that antkeeping is a rewarding and fairly inexpensive hobby. The Global Ant Nursery (GAN) project run by AntsCanada, a popular YouTube channel, is a great way to obtain new queens responsibly. Alternatively, it’s fairly easy to find queens on your own. AntsCanada offers a starter guide, and there are many other resources that teach you when and where…
It's truly easy and inexpensive to get into- all I had to do was forget to do the dishes one night!
....my apologies, I don't mean to ridicule your hobby, it's just I couldn't imagine wanting more of them in my house on purpose.
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I am an avid ant hobbyist and use AntWeb regularly to aid in identification and distribution of ant species when hunting for new queens. I’m glad to hear about this change - the site had needed a bit of a refresh for a while!
At present it's just the data being dumped from TaxonWorks and re-integrated into the existing front-end (separation of concerns nicely done). In the future we hope efforts that wrap TaxonWorks APIs and tooling, "companions", will evolve to make things look better. For example it would be trivial to wrap AntWeb in TaxonPages (see Github for everything) to get a new front end there, though that software is focused at…
I’d love to discuss contributing further. Do you have a link to a GitHub repository or organization?
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I enjoyed that book. After I read it I made my bio on dating apps: “Active, creative, hairy; but enough about Portia spiders.” My question is: how successful do you think that’s been for me as a straight man?
I'm not sure talking about hairy spiders in your opening sentence will work wonders with women.
I guess I’ll have to fall back on my oversized genitals
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#78I've been really enjoying the AntsCanada youtube channel lately. He stages ant wars in a controlled environment and films them really well. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCONd1SNf3_QqjzjCVsURNuA
it's such an interesting subject matter, presented visually in a really nice way, but his script-writing is so jarring to listen to, and it feels like half the time he doesn't even really comprehend the words that he's reading out. perhaps it's just me though; he's got a lot of subs
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>However, the enslaved ants opportunistically kill the queen pupae of the slave maker ants. I'm guessing by this you mean the species of ants that tend to be enslaved, rather than the enslaved ants themselves?
The enslaved ants which grew up in the slave maker ant colony kill the slave maker ant queens (along with other pupae, but they kill the queens at higher rates) in their pupal stage. They're basically in rebellion. Researchers think that this behavior is selected for, as it reduces the effectiveness of the slave maker ants and increases the odds of survival of the enslaved ant species.
it could make a pretty cool film. baby taken as a child turns on his captors and destroys their queen.
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#80After reading the article, I really want a bug/ant RTS game.