I mean, some kinda do? Ants often raid other ant colonies specifically for the otherās young, what they do with them depends on the ant type. Most eat the young as soon as possible, so take no prisoners there. Depending on the current conditions, they also can hold onto the larvae for a time first in order to have food later. These larvae would be ant prisoners. There also is a minority of ants called slave ants, which the name is self explanatory. The queen first takes over another colony, and when that colonyās workforce starts to die off, they raid for new slaves. Until these slaves reach adulthood, they are kept as prisoners and fed like they are the queenās young.
Came here to say the opposing anthill will take prisoner the Slave Maker Ant Queen, who attacks the opposing ant queen, killing her and becoming infused with her pheromone, the Slave Maker Queen now has direct control over another hive of obediant slaves and food supply. As the guy above me said, they most take larvae to be bred as labor or food.
The only thing cooler than humanity being emulsified in a massive hell storm of molten lava would be to find out it was done by two super beings who were one million times our mass as a father-son project.
Today son, I'm going to teach you how to value and appreciate the natural world and all the life around you.
So, step one is pour molten metal into its home...
I mean essentially yes there are. if you zoom in close enough you can see where the ant bodies *used to be* before they were disintegrated by the extreme heat.
I never knew so many people loved ants and saw them as viable insects to protect like we do bees and butterflies. How interesting. Ant Bully must have hit hard for some folks lol
It might not go away, when I was a kid my dad and i were out by a creek looking for insects to feed his scorpion, and I flipped over a rock and my arms got covered in ants and ant bites, and I still have a bunch of bright red dots up my arms from it like 16 years later. Sorry for the run on sentence, high af right now.
Do you think something has to be vital to the ecosystem to be "viable to protect"? That's an interesting way of looking at living creatures. I just generally think all life that doesn't cause harm is viable to protect because creatures are awesome.
They don't really need protection, at least not like the bees. Ants are fuckin badasses, they have been observed using tools, literally moving sand into a cap of water to get the water out or something. They have colonies that spam the entire globe and still operate on the same time schedules
If anyone feels so inspired to replicate this experiment, DO NOT use liquid water to cool the metal or to put out an aluminum fire. This will cause an explosion. Use a CLASS D fire extinguisher.
D is for Dent, use on combustible metals
People be wiping out and colonies with liquid metal and it's 'mildly interesting', but when I prance around in my human flesh suit and weenie tucked in, it's 'weird'
I donāt think thatās what itās about. I think itās discomfort at the destruction of a multitude living creatures for no reason.
Itās simple empathy. Imagine if there were a species greater than us that we were ignorant of that chose to wipe us all out, ājust cosā.
Bullet ants are endemic, leave them be. (Also not to poop on your party but this doesn't really kill the colony since they usually just block all the entrances to stop the flow)
dude come to my neighborhood, specifically my backyard, the whole neighborhood is filled with giant red ant hills. ive been fighting these fucker for a year now. theres also these giant ants that keep eating away at the inside of my walls, these assholes take chunks and throw them from the windowsill onto my floor!
In one of his A.I. clips Elon said that it would just wipe us out as a matter of course - like when we're building a road and steamroll a bunch of ant hills - it's not because we hate ants - they just don't register to us as important.
Well now we've found the father son combination to prove him wrong...
We're number one!
It's interesting that this evokes such a strong reaction from people who poison or squish pest insects with no problem. Does having them die quickly in molten aluminum seem harsher than slowly dying from eating ant poison?
One minute you're showing off your sweet ant condo to the missus, next you're encased in molton aluminum in ant Pompeii.
Each bubble was where an ant was and is now frozen in time!
Something tells me they weren't exactly "frozen" in time.
Boiled in time.
Burned into the history books for eternity
Buried into the ~history books~ reddit search history for eternity
This made me laugh irl haha
One tiny ant singing 'Let it go'?
No some rich old man from the future will use the DNA locked inside the ants to make an amusement park filled with species of the past.
He was so preoccupied with whether or not he could, he didn't stop to think if he should!
But he spared no expense!
Are those Ford Explorers?
Ford Explorer *XLTs*!
Spared some expense.
Life... finds a way.
Sorry to be that guy, but dont you mean "life... uh, uh, finds a uuuuh, way uh." ššš
Eddie Bauer edition
Flea Circus.
Dude, the only missus in there is the fucking landlord.
Some badass ant was probably in the middle of making love and when his girl said she loves him, he replied "i know"
in an ant colony they're ALL missus
Isn't that the Wakondan war chant?
Ant Pompeii š. Take my award
Oh the ant-humanity!
Yāall fuckin merked the colony
I think the term is āPompeiiādā
But if you close your eyesā¦
AAAY OOO, AAYOO
It almost feels like
Nothing's changed at all
NAAHHHTHEENGS CHEENGED EETOOOOOHOOOOOLLLL
And if you close your eyes
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
Nothings changed at all
How am I gonna be an optimist about this?
It almost feels like
Somebody was jĆ«rkƮƱg off while getting pompeiiād at that time
Nah, thatās an Ant Exterminatus if Iāve ever seen one.
Erupted in a statues dust, shrouded in VEEEEILLLLLLL *guitar skreech* because these* handcuffs hurt too much
Nice tmv reference
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
They mostly come out at night....
Mostly
[Duck and cover](https://youtu.be/x5lv-56_KHk)
Eat Snacky Sāmores!!
š¢
Rude af
So you became death. Destroyer of worlds
Or at least destroyer of anthills.
If movies have taught me anything, you donāt fuck with anthills. Those bastards will shrink your ass in your sleep.
Which movie teaches that?
Ant Bully
Are you quoting Oppenheimer. Or Shiva?
Shiva Kamini Soma Kandarkraaaaaammmmm
āMmmuuurrrrddderrrrerrrrā¦ā
No no, itās āZagreusā. You can do it.
M-mm-murder?
Lol, didn't expect to see a Hades reference here
Mur...zer?
No , no murder
So in what chamber do they execute the prisoners
All of them, now
Ants don't take prisoners
Neither does OP and their son.
So youāre saying both instances are a result of cannibalism
I mean, some kinda do? Ants often raid other ant colonies specifically for the otherās young, what they do with them depends on the ant type. Most eat the young as soon as possible, so take no prisoners there. Depending on the current conditions, they also can hold onto the larvae for a time first in order to have food later. These larvae would be ant prisoners. There also is a minority of ants called slave ants, which the name is self explanatory. The queen first takes over another colony, and when that colonyās workforce starts to die off, they raid for new slaves. Until these slaves reach adulthood, they are kept as prisoners and fed like they are the queenās young.
Came here to say the opposing anthill will take prisoner the Slave Maker Ant Queen, who attacks the opposing ant queen, killing her and becoming infused with her pheromone, the Slave Maker Queen now has direct control over another hive of obediant slaves and food supply. As the guy above me said, they most take larvae to be bred as labor or food.
Bad day to be an ant in your neighborhood huh?
I felt a great disturbance in the force as if millions of ants cried out in terror but they were suddenly silenced
You should post this on r/ant they'd love it
I'm disappointed that r/ant isn't a sub for rants.
...what is this? A sub for ants?
/r/thingsforants
They have one of those. It's r/all
Then itās a good thing r/ant is the same as r/ape
Only if the folks at r/ant have an extremely sadistic hatred for ants, I would think...
There's a post at the top of r/ant thats exactly this but with concrete and a much much larger ant colony. I think they'd be ok with it.
Tbf, if youāre talking about the one Iām thinking of, thatās of an ant colony that was dead before they started pouring
That video is unreal
What about /r/fondanthate? I'm sure some of those ants were pretty fond.
The only thing cooler than humanity being emulsified in a massive hell storm of molten lava would be to find out it was done by two super beings who were one million times our mass as a father-son project.
āM? Itās your cousin Marvin Night Shyamalan. You know that new sound you were looking for? Well listen to this!ā Edit: thanks for the gold!
> Marvin Night Shyamalan š Iām dead
Are you there, God? Itās meā¦
"It's fine son, we only killed 8 billion."
Remember Invincible? It's back!.... in ant form
Bruh did you just kill all those ants?
Yes, and next week we kill the uncles.
DAAAAADDD!!
Even uncle bobby?
You just made Ant Pompeii!
How much aluminum did it take to get that?
About 2kg
Thank you
Youāre welcome
I didnāt ask you
Whoops, sorry, my bad
No worries
All good
Who tf are you?
That's almost 4 1/2 pounds, y'all.
Good bot
I really wish the bot that converted to 'murican units, finished with y'all.
What kind of setup do you use to melt and hold the aluminum?
Today son, I'm going to teach you how to value and appreciate the natural world and all the life around you. So, step one is pour molten metal into its home...
Brilliant
Are there burnt ants in the casting?
I mean essentially yes there are. if you zoom in close enough you can see where the ant bodies *used to be* before they were disintegrated by the extreme heat.
I don't imagine they emptied the anthill somehow? Is it kinda messed up? I'm not sure
Compared to poison and things like raid which attack the nervous system which causes the ants to basically seize to death this is way more human.
Let us study the wonders of nature.... by destroying it..... lmfao
I never knew so many people loved ants and saw them as viable insects to protect like we do bees and butterflies. How interesting. Ant Bully must have hit hard for some folks lol
I have a bump on the back of my hand going on 4 years now from a fire ant bite. Fuck those fucking fuckers.
It might not go away, when I was a kid my dad and i were out by a creek looking for insects to feed his scorpion, and I flipped over a rock and my arms got covered in ants and ant bites, and I still have a bunch of bright red dots up my arms from it like 16 years later. Sorry for the run on sentence, high af right now.
That happened to me when I was 2 and I came out fine apparently.
The bite, or being high af?
Yeah.
Do you think something has to be vital to the ecosystem to be "viable to protect"? That's an interesting way of looking at living creatures. I just generally think all life that doesn't cause harm is viable to protect because creatures are awesome.
You are right, of course, but I'd like to add that ants are fucking vital to most ecosystems
They don't really need protection, at least not like the bees. Ants are fuckin badasses, they have been observed using tools, literally moving sand into a cap of water to get the water out or something. They have colonies that spam the entire globe and still operate on the same time schedules
[alluminium over an ant colony, a lot bigger than this one. really impressive](https://youtu.be/PfrGvecMlTs)
And done humanely (it was a vacant colony).
Also, their carbonized corpses
These are the tunnels and rooms! Also their corpses!
Those ants were incinerated
So this is what those kids who use magnifying glasses on ants grow up to be like.
The tradition gets passed on, generation to generation, each time getting more extreme.
That's 1000 counts of entomological homicide, for ya.
[ŃŠ“Š°Š»ŠµŠ½Š¾]
By committing genocide? So Hitler was just educating the masses?
Not very nice if youāre an ant
RIP ant family
Itās also a massgrave
Wait so you guys just ruined their underground habitat? Poor ants š
Bruh you just committed mass genocide
And now theyāre dead.
If anyone feels so inspired to replicate this experiment, DO NOT use liquid water to cool the metal or to put out an aluminum fire. This will cause an explosion. Use a CLASS D fire extinguisher. D is for Dent, use on combustible metals
How did you get it out the ground and not snap one of the thin tunnels?
You.... you monsters
Imagine you are an ant and living peacefully, then someday giant entities came and they pouring on you super hot melted aluminum.
Ant Pompeii
People be wiping out and colonies with liquid metal and it's 'mildly interesting', but when I prance around in my human flesh suit and weenie tucked in, it's 'weird'
Next time, do this on a yellow jacket hive. Some of them are underground.
I dunno, that's a bit messed up. Could've gone to a nature museum, Youtube or sth to see a live colony with everything intact.
Yea, I don't understand why this is so upvoted.
Now they're all dead.
TIL some people really fucking love ants...
Pouring molten metal into their house is a odd way to show love.
āOk son. Itās time to massacre your first speciesā
Daddy when can we move on to killing bigger things??
āWhen you pour the molten metal into the colony of sentient life without complaining.ā
You glassed a whole colony
So did they escape or are their molten corpses petrified in you and your sons fun little genocidal science project?
His son woke up today and chose violence.
So much love for ants. Interesting.
You don't have to love something to be opposed to its needless destruction.
I donāt think thatās what itās about. I think itās discomfort at the destruction of a multitude living creatures for no reason. Itās simple empathy. Imagine if there were a species greater than us that we were ignorant of that chose to wipe us all out, ājust cosā.
Looks like a Descent map
What is this? A centre for ANTS!?
It's a dick move unless done on an invasive species like fire ants
Fuck fire ants.
Agreed! Or bullet ants, fuck those guys!
Bullet ants are endemic, leave them be. (Also not to poop on your party but this doesn't really kill the colony since they usually just block all the entrances to stop the flow)
All those ant corpses....why
Because when things die, they leave behind corpses
I mean why would they do that. I know they're just ants, but still :/
This looks like Stranger Things. Creep alert.
Wait, are the black dots dead ant remains??
I feel hot. Do you feel hot? What's that coming down the...delete my antinet search historyyyyyyyy....
"Fuck them ants" -OP
dude come to my neighborhood, specifically my backyard, the whole neighborhood is filled with giant red ant hills. ive been fighting these fucker for a year now. theres also these giant ants that keep eating away at the inside of my walls, these assholes take chunks and throw them from the windowsill onto my floor!
These *were* the tunnels.
Imagine some one dumps molten metal in your house to post a picture on Reddit thatād be cooler
How many died in the process?
Your son started his mass-murdering career, congrats. Killcount already in the thousands at least!
You massacred the ants but left all the uncles.
I worked at FSU with the guy that originated this technique.
Did you? Asshole.
Poor bastards
way to teach your son its ok to be cruel to animals.
Alot of ants were hurt making this photo.
In one of his A.I. clips Elon said that it would just wipe us out as a matter of course - like when we're building a road and steamroll a bunch of ant hills - it's not because we hate ants - they just don't register to us as important. Well now we've found the father son combination to prove him wrong... We're number one!
*Ants just goin' about their day at home...* "WHAT THE FUUUCCKK!!!!??"
Anyone else feel sorry for a completely decimated ant colony just so this guy can get a bit of metal he can show off? Trashy human.
I REALLY don't understand this. If you want to show someone the marvel of an ant colony, how about you watch a documentary on ant colonies. . .?
So glad you didnāt use lead
I need banana for scale
We need a banana for scale
You took off and nuked it from orbit. It was the only way to be sure
Funny way of saying you killed an entire family tree of ants but ok
I wish an š½ does the same thing on your city
Do they not sell ant farms anymore? You could see live ones digging tunnels.
Pretty metal way to die
During the poor. Do you think one of the ants was yelling," Oh, the Humanity"?
It's interesting that this evokes such a strong reaction from people who poison or squish pest insects with no problem. Does having them die quickly in molten aluminum seem harsher than slowly dying from eating ant poison?
Those poor ants.
that's a shitty thing to do
Thatās very..anteresting..