Has anyone here seen a queen ant in person? Are they as terrifying

So you wonder about them too, anon?

Been thinking about them since I was a kid.

Queen ants are the ultimate NEETs.

I saw an ant with wings once with loads of ants around it I think she was a queen but it wasn't as big as in your pic

>>26351088
i want to squash it and see what the other ants do

I doubt they ever come above ground. If I saw one I would smash it like fuck.

>>26351271
That's a prince ant. Probably soon to be removed of its wings and fucked to death.

>>26351289
Queen ants are not irreplaceable.

Ants operate with a kind of hivemind. If the queen dies, another female ant naturally takes its place.

Ants freak me out because of this, how they forgo individual benefit for the wellbeing of the hive. Seems totally alien to us mammals. Even pack mammals do not willingly throw their lives away for the good of the pack.

Ants are nature's communists desu

>>26351348

Princess*

NOT ORIGINAL FUCK OFFFFFFFFFFF

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>>26351088
yeah, once saw a convoy of ants, with a big ant somewhere surrounded by smaller ants, not being attacked, actually moving in the same direction

I stepped on it really fast and took off like the wind, that was really fucked up, it was like JFK assassination but with ants, I still feel guilty now

>>26351394
No, I believe only male ants have wings.

>>26351361
>another female ant naturally takes its place

how, is the 1st ant in the queen pool going to just suddenly grow huge ass once the queen is dead?

>>26351443
That is actually how it works, essentially. In bees, the queen actually secretes chemicals that control her underlings, and there is even a species that has learned to abuse that by mimicking the chemical signals of the queen. In this case, once the chemical surpressing the development of new queens is absent, a new queen can emerge.

chopping wood with combat shovel in backyard one summer

one log cracked open and i saw a fat giant ant put it in jar

next morning it jizzed everywhere trying to make another nest with eggs, felt bad took it out back to the wood pile to carry on protecting backyard from pests

Yes, I used to destroy ant hills for fun as a kid. Pulled the queen ants big butt off once as a kid, she was being escorted with dozens of ants in front and behind her walking in a straight line from the shambles of their old colony.

Felt bad afterwards desu

>>26351883
wow, why can't humans do that

I used to see bigger ants during the summer but I don't know if those were queen ants.

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>>26351411
>I stepped on it really fast and took off like the wind

>>26352060
We do. It's called the media

>>26351411
>>26352042
Ant bullies should die terrible deaths.

fuck you

>>26352156
we all feel guilty and won't do it again, pls forgive

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>>26352151
Wew 2deep5me

>>26351411
lol you cucked a whole colony out of that sweet ant pussy

>That's a prince ant.

>I saw an ant with wings once with loads of ants around it I think she was a queen

>If the queen dies, another female ant naturally takes its place.

>queen actually secretes chemicals that control her underlings

Jesus christ you people are dumb. The amount of misinformation in this thread demonstrates why >no gf

>>26351411
finn ur too spooky

kill finn

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>>26351411
>it was like the JFK assassination but with ants

>>26352223
top kek well do you know how the female ant gets big and fat?

or are they always fat? or do they just all die because no order and no one replaces? so many questions

>>26352267
Ants operate on a caste system.

>Workers

>Soldiers (bigger head, ingrained laziness for maintenance)

>Drones (males, winged, do no work at all, eat up colony resources)

>Unmated queens (breeder, winged, do no work at all, eat up colony resources)

On a warm day after a rain, all colonies of the same species in an area disgorge their flying breeders. The males and females of various colonies mate, with the male injecting his entire life's load of sperm into the abdomen of the female all at once. She falls to the ground, rubs her wings off with her legs, and uses the sperm for the next 15 years to lay eggs. She also digests the wing-muscle that propelled her until she ripped them off for energy.

Fun fact: 95% of mated queens die without properly founding a new colony, or indeed even getting their first batch of eggs rolling.

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Imagine if one led a convoy of army ants up your bum. Wouldn't be a comfortable experience by any means

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>>26352359
>95% of mated queens die without properly founding a new colony, or indeed even getting their first batch of eggs rolling.

I think so...I used to see lots of shit when I was kid that I don't notice now. I used to see these big-butt ants with colorful streaks on the butt.

They weren't nearly as big as the one in the pic tho.

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>>26352477
>Be me, a male drone ant
>been eyeing a qt3.14 princess ant for years
>finally get the courage to try to mate with her
>successfully mate only to see her immediately get eaten by a spider
>don't have any sperm left to give to any other queen
>die no better than an ant virgin

>>26352223
Why don't you give us the proper info then Mr. entomologist

>>26352541
what do you want to know?

I own an apiary (bee hives) and have had 6 successful and about 50 unsuccessful ant colonies over the years

>>26352536

plot twist: actually have the hots for that spider puss puss

>>26352573
aren't ants and bees different?

>>26352603
>>>/9gag/


bloxipoo

I used to pick up red ants and throw them in the blacks ants anthill.
They always brought the red ant out dead, usually in more pieces than 1

>>26352624
drastically, but I have an interest in social insects.

example: a lone queen ant is expected to found a new colony after mating, while a queen bee is crafted by worker bees. Young larval nursery-working bees have special glands that they can use to process honey into royal jelly, which they then deposit into the cell of a 1-day old hatched larva. This substance causes the larva to become an egg-laying queen, who then takes a portion of the workers of the current colony with her to start a new colony in a process called 'swarming'.

An ant colony that loses its queen is doomed. A bee colony that loses its queen can grow another one, assuming it still has a brood of larva. Bee queens are replaced semi-regularly, where ant queens are never replaced.

>>26352603
>tfw get caught attempting to inject your sperm into a spider
>colony throws you out for being into inter-species bestiality

>>26352664
no, I feel like a pedophile in there

in fact I feel like a pedophile around pretty much any underage population

>>26352438
i never understood that popcorn pepe reaction

what's supposed to happen in the pic?

>>26351415

Actually all ants are male except for the queen.
Funny man, ants are literally wageslaces to pussy and they don't even get to fuck. Just raise some queen ants baby.

>>26352894
same i dont even know

>>26352987
as expected of a smelly dumb tendies-scum, you're misinformed but very willing to share wrong info.

all ants except for drones are male. workers, soldiers, and queens are all female.

males are produced by the queen laying eggs without fertilizing them with sperm from her mating flight. workers, soldiers, and new queens are all laid by the queen by producing an egg, 'willing' it to be a certain caste by applying pheromones, and then fertilizing it with sperm from her reservoir that was filled when she was first mated.

>>26352894
When you're at the movies and you get spooked by a scary scene you flinch and spill all your popcorn
He was scared by the convoy of qt ants going into his manhole

>>26353080
gah, your >>26352987 stupidity rubbed off on me.

All ants except for drones are FEMALE

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They look like this irl

>>26352156
I'm content to leave ants alone unless they're marching on my desk

then I genocide them because I don't want them crawling all over me

have had two ant holocausts so far but hopefully they've fucked off for good so I can stop killing them

>>26352698
what sort of signals can ants send around? how deep does this hivemind phenomena go?

>>26353140
FUCK that scared me holy shittttttttttttt

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>tfw no qt ant princess to literally fuck you to death while you make her a queen

I think we as a species should go to war with all scary bugs. They cannot exist in the same world as us.

>>26351361
Well one colony is basically one organism, with the Queen as its genitals. It makes sense from that perspective, but you're right, I can't even begin to imagine what goes on in an ant's mind.

>>26353196
sadly, ants do not actually have a hive mind.

really, I find that unfortunate. but the fact is, ants do not possess a singular conciousness that drives the colony. instead, they are born hard-wired to function without concern for itself and instead devote itself completely to the welfare of the colony. This doesn't mean it doesn't have any self-preservation instinct: it just means that when the signal is given, it will suicidally oblige to protect the hive.

as for the signals, its mostly pheromone (scent) based. all ants are capable of releasing trails of scent that signal "enemy here", "food here", and other simple messages. as other ants follow these scent trails, they lay their own trails, solidifying the road. within just a few ants responding to the original pheromone, half the colony knows what's happening over there.

Also, ants have a weak defensive spray of acid (formic acid) that does jack to most critters but releases strong alarm pheromones. These frenzy the ants' colony and cause them to all release their own alarm scent, which is why they seem to react as one entity: they all repeat the scent signal, and the whole colony can react at once.

>>26353313
this person doesn't know the way ants work.

Ant tsundere soldier gf when?

>>26353140
Goodness
Do you have a video source?

>>26353340
by the way, all this is scientifically verifiable.

take an ant, then gib him over his colony. he'll release alarm pheromones as he dies, and that will alert the nearest ants, who come and bite you.

Likewise, scientists have produced chemicals that imitate food message pheromones, and can make ants follow trails looking for food.

They're all little robots; preprogrammed to follow instructions that have kept their species dominant for millions of years. doesn't mean that we can explain the process by which they were pre-programmed, but we understand their communication techniques quite well.

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>tfw no sweet ant pussy to fuck all night long

i never seen one either, no matter how hard i tried digging for on as a kid

Fuck guys can someone recommend a documentary about ants, like all about ants?

>>26353481
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leiningen_Versus_the_Ants

>>26353140
you made me drop my phone

>>26352752
Maybe you're actually a pedophile then.

>>26353576
maybe, I'm on a quest to find out about my true self, starting with the local elementary school

>>26353083
haha

now it makes sense

thanke

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>>26351088
>tfw ants infestation in room ends but now spiders infestation instead

>>26353108
kek but thanks for the info

>>26353443
damn anon, you are really dedicated to ants

would you say ants in artistic pornographic depiction are accurate represented?

>>26353708
>but now spiders infestation instead
pretty nice honestly
your room will remain fruitfly free from now on, no need to worry about dirty fast food bags bringing in pests, spiderbros take care of em

>>26353770
I've only ever seen scorpion and spider porn.

Although I often wondered if we could imbed some non-standard commands into the ants programming to help with simple human tasks (cleaning houses, removing ticks from pets, 'shaving' human body hair, etc.)

>>26352156

jesus why don't you just go have sex with them if you love ants so much

>>26353140
i wanna put a fire cracker down there and light it

>>26353340
what would happen if you sprayed an ant hill with a fuckton of body spray

>>26353838
>after implementation some crazy scientist find a command to make all the ants rebelling against us and wipe out the humanity

I saw that remote controlled cockroach thing, it was pretty impressive, and freaky

>>26352752
why do pedophiles seem to think they can have pedo tendencies and not be pedophiles? is it autism?

>>26353838
>hive swarm sex simulator

>>26353972
I would say no, why?

>>26353708
>spider infestation

holy fuck, this has never happened to me before but i will literally burn my fucking house down if it ever does.

>>26353794
end yourself retard, fruit flies are easy as fuck to trap and they aren't gonna crawl into your bed at night and spook your shit up.

>>26354020
>why?

because only an autist would have such a complete lack of self awareness?

>>26354093
Anon, you are literally going to forget about me in 2 hours. It is not worth the emotional investment.

>>26354055
actually they are okay, they just run away when I'm close, plus they are daddy-long-legs, I read online that they can't harm humans even if they tried

>>26353946
I don't think you can cover up pheromone smells with body spray, and I'm sure the stuff wouldn't penetrate the 4+' that most mature colonies go down.

that said, you could troll ant colonies by dragging a handful of ants' along the ground while crushing them, producing a clear alarm trail, and lead them to a nearby colony (which you've already stirred up).

With a little luck, you'll incite war and result in the less-prepared hive getting wiped out

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>>26351088
omg a thread all about ants, finally, and yet i don't know what to post.

umm.

for a documentary about ants, watch this shit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nY-VzA-qJLA

SimAnt, anyone?

Anyone like antlions, too?

>>26353838
>Although I often wondered if we could imbed some non-standard commands into the ants programming to help with simple human tasks
It was actually pretty cool to see this in the Antman movie. I would be freaked the fuck out if some ants started doing shit for me in real life but it's a cool concept.

>>26353451
i feel you my man..
i want to live among the ants u.u and be with the queen and fuck her right on that sweet ant pussy u.u
why live.
i can not live in this society. society has rejected me .
i want to live among the ants :(

>>26354281
do ants ever gang up on antlions?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRuOyyVfz_c

>>26351361
Are you a fucking retard that happens in some species but not all

What's your favorite insect or arachnid robots?

>>26353188
Exactly you just need lebensraum and the filthy kikes, I mean ants, are getting in your living space

>>26352698
Nigga like u know shit some of the old ant species like the poneras have indistinguishable queens and if she die another of her hoes can take her place literally everything you said is some some sense bullshit because ants cover such a wide spectrum faggot

>>26354312
I've seen it happen. The colonies of both ants and antlions (antlions are not community insects, but they tend to stay together) tend to overlap, so there are bound to be confrontations and maybe invasions, completely one-sided.

me when i was little

Iwas messing with an anthole in the front yard, trapping alot of them under bottle caps and digigng into their burrow

then i noticed this bigger than usual antwhich was probably the queen.

>>26353340
NIGGA U TALK SOME SENSE BUT THERES STILL SHIT THAT AINT CORRECT

>>26351260
They're natures stacys. Surrounded by hundreds of thousands of cucked orbiters who supply them with every need

>>26354570
do ants ever stand a chance against antlion?

>>26354548
no modern ant that any /robot/ is ever going to see has workers that can lay colony-sustaining eggs.

just because a few relict species that exist in literally one small piece of jungle doesn't mean that its remotely applicable to what people think of when they think 'ant'

>>26352156
Joe pls

>>26354600
YEAH PROABLY THE OLD SPECIES BECAUSE THEY HELLA BIG BUT STILL THO DEM ANTLION GOT SOME DAMN MANDIBLEs

>>26354594
NIGGA THE ONLY SPERM IN A COLONY IS IN THE QUEENS ROTTEN CUNT AND THE SHOTA FUCKBOY PRINCES

>>26352487
Could've been some type of honey any desu, they're everywhere here in Aus
the only time it's acceptable to eat ass desu

>>26354623
fucking plebleb blox

>>26354759
>used as food
not by ant colonies. they do die, but they tend to die by being eaten by predators, since they can't return to their colony after mating.

mating flights take place outside, in the air. males aren't the only ones with wings, of course. the new queens have wings too.

>>26353340
>>26353443
Are you an entomologist? That's a feild I would love to go into if I wasn't NEET.

>>26354281
hang out with me you're so cool ;_;

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Finally another excuse to post this.
These ants make shells out of whatever they find laying around, usually with pebbles, leaves, and dirt. This is what they made when provided with precious materials like gold, silver, lapis lazuli, etc

>>26354281
comfy documentary alert

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>>26354281
>when the beetle rapes his bitch and then throws it off the tree

and that's the first segment? i'm stoked for the rest of this

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>>26351411
This is one of them moments, my siiides

>>26354594
All the other ants except drones are female. The drones are also retarded. Other ants have to groom and feed them because they don't know how to do those things. Once the drone mates, it is forsaken and not allowed back to the colony. It just wanders off and dies somewhere. This depends on the species, but that's usually how it goes.

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this is the most fascinating thread ive seen on r9k in months

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>>26354239
Oh my fucking god.
This is something I need to do.

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>>26353140
Im thoroughly spooked

>>26356381
In elementary school I discovered a large ant hole which lead to a large chamber outside. During recess some friends and would catch a bunch of bees, beetles, and other bugs. Then we dug out the ant chamber and tore off the wings of the bugs we caught and threw them in. Every recess we would watch these bugs fight and get killed by ants. The bees were the most fun to play with.

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>tfw once masturbated to watching a girl step on ants barefoot

>>26355341
YAS THIS. They aren't ants though, they are caddisfly larvae.

>>26352536

coulda been worse, at least your qt waifu ant princess didn't reject you and mate with ant chad instead

>>26356487
You need to die for that

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Ants eating colored sugar water.

>>26352156
antanon found.

Cant stop thinking about the ants, man. I just cant stop these thoughts. Please help me.

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>>26353140
>tfw severe arachnophobia

That was not what I was expecting.

>>26353140

It reminds me of a puppy excitedly licking someone's hand but it's actually a tarantula

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>>26356748
calm down and grab a snack to relax

>>26352156
>Be me, 7 years old
>Walking around in my yard
>All of a sudden terrible pain in legs
>Look down
>I'm being attacked by ants
>Frantically brush them off and run away
>Have to spend hours in the bath with some powder in it to stop the itching
FUCK ANTS
I WILL KILL ANY ANT I SEE
AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>26351088
I saw an army ant biovauc in Costa Rica as a kid. I like to imagine in the queen was inside it, just chilling out while her children ruined my fucking vacation.

>>26351088
What's a good book to learn more about ants? They're cool.

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>>26353188
its things like these that remind me that being human was fucking awesome. These ants work all day and all night their entire, short lives, yet we can destroy thousands of them easily, just because they had the balls to touch us. Its like where some giant mythological beats living on a secluded island, waiting for ballsy adventurers to stumble into our territory.

Have you ever been walking on a beack, towards a flock of seagulls? Notice how, the closer you get, the more paranoid the birds get? They start walking away slowly, then faster, then faster and BAM, they fly away. You didn't even do anything to them except walk in their fucking direction. Being a human is badass.

>>26356667
I used to make my own antfarms when I was younger and watched them for hours. In middleschool I went to national tournaments in Science Olympiad with one of my events being about bugs. I never knew so many robots shared this interest of mine. As fascinated as I was, I sacrificed many in the name of science and entertainment. Oh the joy and amusement that came to me from watching antbros band together to defeat the bee invaders, dismantle the beetle menace, and consume the grasshopper faggots. (grasshoppers were my equivalent of bug jews. I killed them the most.)

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>>26356946
>that kid who read the books

just watch the movie bro

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who /pikmin/ here?

>>26357003
I wanted that real badly when I was younger but I've always had playstations, which I love. Never had a gamecube to play that on.

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>>26352156
In my backyard there was a colony. The ants there didn't bite, but that didn't matter to me. All I wanted was to enact my fantasies of being a god.

I started out small, I'd fill up a a liter bottle and head to the back and then carefully pour every single drop down the hatch. Ants would start coming up and I'd abduct them and crush them apart from the site.

I did this for an entire week until I got bored of that.

Then I started using the hose and leaving it in for ten minutes at a time. When they stopped coming out I'd leave and do it again an hour later.

I did this for nearly a month. There was no reason.

The final thing I did was create this oil soaked cotton balls on the end of sticks and terrorize the ants when they left or entered. I'd hover the stick over the entrance and set them on fire.

I don't remember how long I kept doing, but it was a while.

the final thing I did was definitely the cruelest and most fun. Near the nest there was a bush where a spider had set up shop, this was florida, and this was a particularly big spider. Her web must've been nearly a meter across. I'd dangle the living ants above it and drop them into it. They'd either fall through or get stuck, but when they got stuck they'd start to struggle which caused the line to twitch. I swear to god it was exactly like watching a fisherman feeling his line for a bite. The spider would run all the way across the web in seconds. The way a spider uses its foremost legs to wind the web around its prey is beautiful, they're extremely talented at it and a single ant took less than ten seconds. I brought twenty every day and watched.

Eventually the nest died, no more ants came out or bothered repairing the damage I was causing to it. Maybe they just dug another exit in favor of getting killed, maybe they really did starve to death or their homes were too flooded after months of pouring water inside.

I really don't know why I did these things. I'm so sorry ants.

>>26357401
little fuckers near human habitation deserve it

want to clear a colony? pour five gallons of boiling water down the entrance using a funnel. No WAY the queen avoids that much water. Dead queen = colony is finished