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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2014 21:05:40 GMT
Wow! I was on Facebook today when someone of my friends shared a news article about flying ants erupting everywhere. Well I could not believe the vicious hatred towards them and indeed lack of understanding in the comments. It really grinds my gears! People were just interested in eradicating them from existence. Oh how I delight in telling them I have ants and tarantulas and I get the same question every time-- Why?! I dispair of humanity.
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Post by michaelofvancouver on Jul 23, 2014 21:09:01 GMT
Me too. I told most of my friends about how the winged ants were queens, and how they couldn't really infest your house, but it's very hard to change peoples opinions about ants...
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Post by Jenny on Jul 23, 2014 21:40:59 GMT
Mako, I am glad somebody else gets the "why" question too  I get some funny looks when I pick up ants and say I have got a baby T Not that I can find it, buried deep in its box. The neighbours think I'm weird, so why worry.... |
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Post by TenebrousNova on Jul 23, 2014 21:52:41 GMT
People always seem really surprised when I tell them that the winged ants are the queens and drones. You'd think they were another kind of insect altogether.
My first Lasius niger queen (Mother of the first and biggest colony I've had, which unfortunately died out last year) was rescued at lunch time at school. Everyone else was stamping on them!
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Post by shane on Jul 23, 2014 22:07:00 GMT
Mako, I am glad somebody else gets the "why" question too I get some funny looks when I pick up ants and say I have got a baby T Not that I can find it, buried deep in its box. The neighbours think I'm weird, so why worry.... Every one thinks I'm weird  but use to it now, I have to keep saying to myself which is true that weird only means that your different and if everyone was normal then world would be a boring place,
What I don't do is follow suit to other people or friends what they do then get rid of stuff for next thing that comes a long "pets" or something.
I follow my heart and passion of stuff I'm interested in even if I'm too detailed in stuff and nothing will change that.
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Post by TenebrousNova on Jul 23, 2014 22:39:43 GMT
Trust me Shane, you aren't weird compared to some people I know. People who say you are don't know what weird is!
I don't believe there's truly such a thing as normal anyway. And don't forget that being different can be very beneficial...it fuels evolution for a start. If we were all uniformly normal then we'd have died out a long time ago.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 18, 2014 21:04:19 GMT
I don't know what makes people think that it is alright to kill an ant, they are living things aswell. They wouldn't like it if ants kept coming and squishing them. A life is a life no matter how small they are.
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