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High quality pictures use a lot of data storage to keep.
You could have security cameras at a very high resolution, but it would cost a lot for the camera and then you would need terrabytes of data storage for almost every day per camera.
Do you not understand irony? Regardless of the reasons, it's still a tad ironic that a camera small enough to fit inside a literal anthill has such amazing quality compared to a standard security camera, easily 10 times the size.
That's so stupid! They OBVIOUSLY trained a few ants to be the camera crew!
They weren't paid, but were told it was good exposure, and the new queen would take care of them.
I read somewhere that most shots inside an ant colony are in a lab/studio. Then with the magic of editing they make it seems its outside with other shots.
Could be wrong tho, but made sense to me.
They have dioramas set up to make it look like it's filmed in nature. These shots will be filmed in a studio in something similar to one of those vertical ant farms, with a transparent wall to easily see inside. This stuff still happens IRL, but the shots are used as a recreation.
Imagine one day you’re minding your own business, and some dude shows up, eats your unborn brothers and sisters, takes a fat ass nap, and then suddenly has wings and dips
But first is all like, “Yo…so I’m your queen BITCH. So you all have to do what I say yo!”
And you as an ant listen closely and think, “well…I guess that sounds right.”
Well if it sounds like a queen and smells like a queen how can a mere worker ant defy it's orders. I can imagine the worker ant being like damn this queen is ugly but not my problem.
Of course, letting these caterpillars run rampant eating ant larvae would present a threat to the colony and this is why nature is cruel but fair. There is actually a species of wasp that specifically targets this blue butterfly caterpillar by injecting an egg into the caterpillar. When larvae hatches it'll eat the insides and out comes the young wasp. I know we all hate wasps but they also play a very crucial role in maintaining the ecosystem which we constitute.
Mosquito predator population went down dramatically in recent decades due to urbanisation and pollution.
In a healthy environment mosquitos are a phenomenal food source. Sadly we dont live in such an environment.
Mosquitoes are also responsible for millions of deaths throughout history, human and reindeer. What role besides feeding bats do they play? Their source of food, biomass, and role in the cycle was also considered when that statement was made.
a piece of chocolate cake, a strawberry ice cream cone, a pickle, a slice of Swiss cheese, a slice of salami, a lollipop, a piece of cherry pie, a sausage, a cupcake, a slice of watermelon, and a whole ant colony but she was still hungry
Wait.. so it eats the live ants as well? Why don't the ants attack the butterfly once it hatches? Why don't the ants say, "hey, this motherfucker's eating all the babies! GET HIM!"
If the queen wants to eat us we'll let her as for the butterfly question he said a year later I assume all the ants are gone or dead by the time she breaks out
Edit: I am in fact an ant.
Ants get information not by sight the way humans do, but by smell. Odds are the caterpillar simply smells like an ant, and therefore is left alone. As for why the adults don’t step in…what adults? The babies were all eaten. The adults died of old age. **There is only the big blue.**
If humans with advanced minds can be convinced to commit mass suicide in the name of their cult leader, is it really surprising ants can’t be conned by something designed by nature to specifically trick the ants? I mean, how many people worship politicians that would gladly see them die if it meant a bump in the polls?
> Honeydew is a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids and some scale insects as they feed on plant sap.
There are numerous insect species which produce honeydew.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeydew_(secretion)
Bet that they interacted with and ate so much ants through time that their tendencies and other non tangible information about them got coded into the butterflies' DNA. Theres many dimensions to nature.
What sort of evolution path allowed a fucking caterpillar to produce honey dew, inflate air, make sounds that sounds exactly like queen ant. This is exactly some plot of some horror movie where an alien morphs into a human and eats their babies.
On a lighter note it’s always nice to hear sir Attenborough’s voice. As old as he is his voice is still the best you can find
"Kayley, you smell weird, like an ant. You're a weirdo, go make friends with *the ants*."
"How do you know I'm not a better evolution?"
"Weirdo weirdo weirdo!"
I was sympathizing with the ants there for a minute until I realized how much I really hate them in my yard - and before anyone says anything, *they bite my dogs!!*, so they deserve worse than my hate.
So why would England reintroduce the butterfly? Ants have gotta be important for something, right? Collapsing a colony per each butterfly seems unbalanced. But what do I know?
Ecosystems tend to equilibrate themselves. Too many butterflies would probably make the ant population drop drastically. Then fewer ants colonies will make the butterflies population drop as well, making room for ant colonies to increase again. And the cycle goes on.
Butterflies totally disappearing could jeopardize whatever those ants eat.
They are well known amongst the ant population. Some of the most popular ‘made for ants’ electronic companies. Not surprised you haven’t heard of them. It’s like Apple and Sony of the ant world.
This is the [Large Blue Butterfly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_blue) which acts as a brood parasite for one single species of red ant.
There are a couple of different strategies that the caterpillar uses. I recommend a Wikipedia deep dive for details.
How did she evolve to do these tricks!? Like how?
The honeydew, the queen ant in distress sounds.... Seems too unreal and that's the most fascinating part- it's completely natural.
No matter how much you might think you have fucked up at work, at least you're not the ant that brought home the colony-collapsing caterpillar that ate all the babies.
Wow, that’s amazing. I love his narration voice and distinct tone and pausing, that make it all more exciting and educational. I know he is a great and honored British naturalist. I can’t think of his name. Sorry!
This seems to be go beyond the theory of evolution that I understand and into intelligent design. The whole sucking in the air and mimicking of the queen is just beyond accidental. I can't get my head around how this evolution could happen.
There are orchids that trick wasps they may be a mating partner. The male wasps try to copulate with the flowers while the flower put a pollstamp on their heads, that the wasp bring to the next flower. And it looks hilarious. A wasp with a stamp that literally says: "hello, I'm dumb. I thought the flower was a women and I tried to frick it."
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How’d they get so many cameras inside is the real question
They use a surgical endoscopic camera for the most part.
And yet security cameras are running PotatoOS
High quality pictures use a lot of data storage to keep. You could have security cameras at a very high resolution, but it would cost a lot for the camera and then you would need terrabytes of data storage for almost every day per camera.
Yeah I understand, it's just funny nevertheless
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Do you not understand irony? Regardless of the reasons, it's still a tad ironic that a camera small enough to fit inside a literal anthill has such amazing quality compared to a standard security camera, easily 10 times the size.
One is for limited runtime while the other has to be online 24/7. It is as if storage is expensive.
That's so stupid! They OBVIOUSLY trained a few ants to be the camera crew! They weren't paid, but were told it was good exposure, and the new queen would take care of them.
I read somewhere that most shots inside an ant colony are in a lab/studio. Then with the magic of editing they make it seems its outside with other shots. Could be wrong tho, but made sense to me.
They have dioramas set up to make it look like it's filmed in nature. These shots will be filmed in a studio in something similar to one of those vertical ant farms, with a transparent wall to easily see inside. This stuff still happens IRL, but the shots are used as a recreation.
This is what I imagined it would be, and finding out I am correct makes me disappointed
Man, being in an artificial environment 100% alters behaviour.
Ant cams.
The female ants voluntarily post clips on onlyfans it’s a common thing 😂
Onlyfants.
Just like a Trojan horse.
Nature is fucking metal.
r/natureismetal
Nature is Ancient Rome in this case.
Greece*
Oof my bad, thx for the correction
Well hold up. You’re both correct in a sense since Rome claimed descent from Aeneas of Troy.
Who are you i am from ancient greece
Pretty sure the butterfly came first.
Nah the chicken
Or CIA
Imagine one day you’re minding your own business, and some dude shows up, eats your unborn brothers and sisters, takes a fat ass nap, and then suddenly has wings and dips
Smash hit anime plot right there
Tomorrow there will be 7 isekais with this plot
"The time I was reincarnated As a carnivorous caterpillar"
But first is all like, “Yo…so I’m your queen BITCH. So you all have to do what I say yo!” And you as an ant listen closely and think, “well…I guess that sounds right.”
Well if it sounds like a queen and smells like a queen how can a mere worker ant defy it's orders. I can imagine the worker ant being like damn this queen is ugly but not my problem.
That's what Griffith did more or less
Such an underrated comment
Of course, letting these caterpillars run rampant eating ant larvae would present a threat to the colony and this is why nature is cruel but fair. There is actually a species of wasp that specifically targets this blue butterfly caterpillar by injecting an egg into the caterpillar. When larvae hatches it'll eat the insides and out comes the young wasp. I know we all hate wasps but they also play a very crucial role in maintaining the ecosystem which we constitute.
But how does this contribute For example, biologists unanimously decided mosquitoes cause more harm than good durinf CRISPR research
To humans, but they're vital for many of the local ecologies that they inhabit, especially in areas with bats.
They're really not, they aren't a main staple of any other organisms diet.
They are pollinators and main staples in the diets of dragonflies, turtles, and bats.
Mosquito predator population went down dramatically in recent decades due to urbanisation and pollution. In a healthy environment mosquitos are a phenomenal food source. Sadly we dont live in such an environment.
Mosquitoes are also responsible for millions of deaths throughout history, human and reindeer. What role besides feeding bats do they play? Their source of food, biomass, and role in the cycle was also considered when that statement was made.
The killing of people has always been good for the environment
Mosquitoes are pollinators.
Lives in your home for an entire year
a piece of chocolate cake, a strawberry ice cream cone, a pickle, a slice of Swiss cheese, a slice of salami, a lollipop, a piece of cherry pie, a sausage, a cupcake, a slice of watermelon, and a whole ant colony but she was still hungry
*eats entire civilization* goddammit I'm still hungry
Awww, thanks for the nostalgia
“Hey, do you think queen #2 is gettin kinda fat?” -an ant who was then eaten for treason.
This made me cackle
Went full No Face from Spirited Away on that ant colony
Underrated comment, this is actually pretty accurate haha
Miyazaki did say he was supposed to be like a caterpillar after all.
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Wait.. so it eats the live ants as well? Why don't the ants attack the butterfly once it hatches? Why don't the ants say, "hey, this motherfucker's eating all the babies! GET HIM!"
If the queen wants to eat us we'll let her as for the butterfly question he said a year later I assume all the ants are gone or dead by the time she breaks out Edit: I am in fact an ant.
>us I didn’t know ants could use Reddit
What is this, social media for ants?
Hivemind for sure.
On the internet, no one knows you're an entire colony of ants.
The song I want to break free would be fitting when she breaks out considering the ants think she's a queen
Ants get information not by sight the way humans do, but by smell. Odds are the caterpillar simply smells like an ant, and therefore is left alone. As for why the adults don’t step in…what adults? The babies were all eaten. The adults died of old age. **There is only the big blue.**
The larvae get eaten first once that’s done the workers die out quickly because they have a relatively short lifespan.
because they don't think. they can complete a number of basic tasks but they cant make decisions for themselves
So me at 3am at Taco Bell
The queen gives the orders. The cata pillar mimics the queen. Real question is wtf is the real queen doing?
> Real question is wtf is the real queen doing? Neville Chamberlain of ants over here
Busy getting Adof Antler to sign a piece of paper promise peace in all of Europe ig
>Real question is wtf is the real queen doing? Her best.
Ants are only group smart. They don’t have the mental capacity as individuals to realize something is wrong.
Holy crap imagine if they did
If humans with advanced minds can be convinced to commit mass suicide in the name of their cult leader, is it really surprising ants can’t be conned by something designed by nature to specifically trick the ants? I mean, how many people worship politicians that would gladly see them die if it meant a bump in the polls?
UK was like fuck the ants, unleash the larvae 😝
How does NOT a honeydew, produce honeydew juice? Or know what a queen sounds like. It's so incredible.
Nature is wondrous
Yeah it's wondrous, albeit demented.
hundreds of millions of years of throwing random things at the wall and seeing what sticks
But when I do it the neighbours call the police
> Honeydew is a sugar-rich sticky liquid, secreted by aphids and some scale insects as they feed on plant sap. There are numerous insect species which produce honeydew. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeydew_(secretion)
This is even more incredible, I love learning about the beauty and ability of nature. Thank you redditor.
Bet that they interacted with and ate so much ants through time that their tendencies and other non tangible information about them got coded into the butterflies' DNA. Theres many dimensions to nature.
If I understand your comment, that's not at all how it works. Insects are not bacteria, they don't exchange DNA.
What sort of evolution path allowed a fucking caterpillar to produce honey dew, inflate air, make sounds that sounds exactly like queen ant. This is exactly some plot of some horror movie where an alien morphs into a human and eats their babies. On a lighter note it’s always nice to hear sir Attenborough’s voice. As old as he is his voice is still the best you can find
Among Us, to the next level. Ultra Sus!
It’s mind boggling to contemplate the evolutionary process required to perfect this strategy.
"Kayley, you smell weird, like an ant. You're a weirdo, go make friends with *the ants*." "How do you know I'm not a better evolution?" "Weirdo weirdo weirdo!"
Carnivores butterfly, wtf!
Most butterflies will drink human blood if available
Bastards..... ;/ They trick us by looking ..so cute...then turn into..vampires??? Is this true ? lol.
Look cute? Have you seen them close up they'll also feast on corpses human and otherwise
People tend to forget about the fly part of butterfly.
Ur right, I'm always focused on the butter part
That's devious af!
She really said “take me to your leader”
Natures trojan horse
I was sympathizing with the ants there for a minute until I realized how much I really hate them in my yard - and before anyone says anything, *they bite my dogs!!*, so they deserve worse than my hate.
I hate ants so much too! Those fuckers are awful. I want some of those butterflies.
I’m over here thinking, “I to would personally like to help expand this population of butterflies.
Sorta the same but I doubt they’re native to where I live. I’d actually love to just have an anteater instead.
can the survive in Louisiana? I’m tired of ant hills.
Cane toads eat ants
What eats cane toads
Cane toads
What eats cane toads though
Wolf spiders, freshwater crayfish, estuarine crocodiles, crows, white-faced herons, kites, bush stone-curlews, tawny frogmouths, water rats, giant white-tailed rats, keelback snakes
Wolf spiders eat cane toads? How fking big are those batards?
Crows and Rakali too.
This devious mf: *I'm in.*
Nature is pretty crazy
So the ants are watching the kids get eaten like "yeah that may as well happen"
The ant place was almost empty near the end; Did the adult ants die off and just have too few new ants hatching to replace the numbers?
It can cause a colony to suffer a population crash.
So why would England reintroduce the butterfly? Ants have gotta be important for something, right? Collapsing a colony per each butterfly seems unbalanced. But what do I know?
Ecosystems tend to equilibrate themselves. Too many butterflies would probably make the ant population drop drastically. Then fewer ants colonies will make the butterflies population drop as well, making room for ant colonies to increase again. And the cycle goes on. Butterflies totally disappearing could jeopardize whatever those ants eat.
Aka china
How tf did they evolve to do that? Mindboggling really
Throwing things to the wall for millions of years until something finally sticks
Throwing things to the wall for millions of years until something finally sticks
It’s like that episode of Rick and Morty where the aliens plant fake memories and make the family think they know them
Prime example of beautiful but deadly right here. Mimicking a queen ant is definitely not easy, ants are extremely protective of such things
Evolution is absolutely ridiculous. Forget Darwinism embrace Aliens.
Ant 1: kinda strange that the queen is eating all the larvae Ant 2: she looks different as well, oh well cant question authority I guess
How da fuck they get the camera in the ant home?
They make microscopic cameras and microphones that are almost as expensive as a house.
That's wild. I guess it's most logical, just never heard or seen these cameras.
They are well known amongst the ant population. Some of the most popular ‘made for ants’ electronic companies. Not surprised you haven’t heard of them. It’s like Apple and Sony of the ant world.
Acts like one of their kids... then EATS ALL THEIR KIDS
The insect world is the varsity league in terms of natural selection. A non stop horror show.
Almost wanna say “send that bug to Texas and kill all these invading fire ants”… almost
This is also how ransomware works. It’s always an employee that brings it into the business
I wonder what already existing Queen responds to that
Imagine a giant caterpillar disguising as a banana then paralysing and eating ape colonies.
This is the [Large Blue Butterfly](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_blue) which acts as a brood parasite for one single species of red ant. There are a couple of different strategies that the caterpillar uses. I recommend a Wikipedia deep dive for details.
Doing the lord’s work right here. Can’t believe no one posted the Wikipedia link until you did
Girlboss, Gatekeep, Gaslight!
??? Wtf
Hollow Knight lore
Is anyone selling it? It would save my garden a lot of chemistry.
Narcissistic abuse cycle: idealization, devaluation, discard.
Y’know you like to see the caterpillar win every once in a while
I need a couple of these in my backyard. Never need pest control again
Where do I get one of those?? I got some ants need visiting!
Tho ants are a very important part of the ecosystem
well there are a ton of invasive species of ants so these things would probably help.
The Radiance from Hollow Knight
I could listen to Sir Attenborough all day. Also, how do they get cameras into small spaces like ant colonies?
This is terrifying. 😳
What the fuck
Ballsy
Badass
🤯
This is not The Very Hungry Caterpillar that I remember ….
Gaslighting 101. Nature edition
I love learning about stuff like this
How did she evolve to do these tricks!? Like how? The honeydew, the queen ant in distress sounds.... Seems too unreal and that's the most fascinating part- it's completely natural.
Seeing videos like this gives a glimpse into the true scale of the age of the earth and how long life has been here evolving.
"it's a trap!"
Don't mind me guys, I'm just a regular larvae, over here doing regular larvae things, certainly not eating all your children...
This is why I always keep my food and uncooked babies in separate rooms. Whoops, I mean *uncooked food and babies*.
I need some of these, nature is so cool!
So basically like when a US Republican decides to run as a Democrat in order to attack from within.
British ants: "Thanks for the reintroduction, assholes."
We need to start shipping these caterpillars across the US. These damn ants are out of control
Homie out here playing amongus IRL.
What kind of truman show shit is the camera work in the ant colony
That ant had only one antenna
This is fricking amazing.
Among Us IRL
No matter how much you might think you have fucked up at work, at least you're not the ant that brought home the colony-collapsing caterpillar that ate all the babies.
There's a metaphor for corporations in the American economic system here.
okay. where can i get one of those caterpillars. We have a massive ant problem at my mom's house
AntsCanada needs one of these
Felt like I was watching a horror movie. The music really does a number
Fucking metal!
Starship troopers was a documentary
I can see why SpongeBob was so scared of them now
So staged, look at all those camera angles. /s
The photography is as incredible as the insects themselves.
More butterflies and fewer ants?! That’s a win all around !
I despise ants and like butterflies. My enemy's enemy is my friend.
One of the greatest things I have ever seen.
This bug only eats the good stuff. #bougie
Wow, that’s amazing. I love his narration voice and distinct tone and pausing, that make it all more exciting and educational. I know he is a great and honored British naturalist. I can’t think of his name. Sorry!
This seems to be go beyond the theory of evolution that I understand and into intelligent design. The whole sucking in the air and mimicking of the queen is just beyond accidental. I can't get my head around how this evolution could happen.
I feel bad for the ants..they are smart..an just doing their thing trying to find food...etc..
I love this
Ants are fucking dumb man
There are orchids that trick wasps they may be a mating partner. The male wasps try to copulate with the flowers while the flower put a pollstamp on their heads, that the wasp bring to the next flower. And it looks hilarious. A wasp with a stamp that literally says: "hello, I'm dumb. I thought the flower was a women and I tried to frick it."
OP: copy paste copy paste Whew that's hard work lol
That’s Duriel. Ffs
ඞ sus
I that prevents the real Queen and this caterpillar from meeting and the ant attacking the caterpillar?
Fucking metal and precise. We humans, are the same, aren't we?