Agriculture
War
Keeping Livestock
Barn Raising
Royal Coups
Child Labor
Grain Silos
Paper
Garbage Management
First Aid
Evil Stepmothers
Division of Labor
Seed Saving
Social Distancing for Disease Management
Pranking the Neighbors
Architecture
Packing to Move
Tour Guides
High Density Housing
Sewer System
#gardening failure so far this year: invested in #AntPro bait stations in an attempt to reduce ant damage to fruit trees/etc. (and the occasional bee swarm that lands here). The #ArgentineAnts here refuse to take the bait... I think too many other food sources in my yard. #pest#control#ant#ants
This is Tulip, the median carpenter ant worker. Today she enjoyed some wet cat food. I can’t seem to find Pepper, the ant with the green spot, I think she might have cleaned the paint off (she was very dusty) — stay tuned for more important Tulip updates. #tulip#ant#namedAnts
Tulip is about two years old. It's been nearly two years since I marked her. The queen of this colony is 4.
Hmmmm so if I want to use a not-so-new #Garmin watch that only does heart rate broadcasting via #ANT, to feed heart rate data to #RunnerUp on a phone running #LineageOS, then I'm out of luck because the ANT stack is proprietary and not included in LineageOS. Did I get that right?
Zítra k nám přijde na návštěvu slečna, 8 let, má děsně ráda hmyz a úplně nejvíc mravence, tak jsem prostě neodolal. Je hejbací, tak snad se bude líbit 😁 #3Dprinting#printforkids#ant
Call me crazy but carpenter ants can jump down. That is they will leap, on purpose from a high surface to a lower surface propelled by their back legs. Not quite at the level of Gigantiops destructor, who can jump up and forward... but you can see how it evolved.
"Stranger than science fiction." That's how an ecologist describes a strange fungus that hijacks cicadas’ bodies and behavior, turning them into "zombies."
CNN reports on the the fungus Massospora cicadina and how it's impacting some of the cicadas emerging this year: https://flip.it/cxfw5K
Can we just gush a little about #gimp - particularly the one situated in the #flathub#flatpak beta repo.
This whole window is unintrusive. The title and window controls are just sort of there, at the top of the window. A standard titlebar, toolbar in a single column to the left, and on the right grouping toolkit dialogues on the top and project management dialogues on the bottom, all surrounding the canvas.
It's more cohesive, more compact, and gives focus to the actual image itself... one sec
and bobs your uncle. Remember to #shitpost responsibly and with no ill intent.
A #gentleman#shitposter is not a #fuckboy and the distinction should be made that a good jest, a good hardy-harr should not be at the expense of others when one can more easily lay into their subpositions and narrative with a nudge, a wink and a little jig to signify the the culmination of the jape.
Thanks and love goes to @futurebird for her weekly #ant adventures.
One of the thinkers who has influenced me most is the sociologist John Law, one of the creators of Actor-network theory, along with Bruno Latour, among others. I especially like his book "After Method" (2004), very influenced by the amazing work of Annemarie Mol (especially her "The Body Multiple"). For those who want to know more about Law, I recommend his website http://heterogeneities.net/ There is a lot of very interesting material (papers, projects, etc.).
How to study the messiness of social realities? ➡️ "I want to argue that while standard methods are often extremely good at what they do, they are badly adapted
to the study of the ephemeral, the indefinite and the irregular".
I came upon this interesting scene today: a ladybug had found an ant "aphid farm" and was about to deliver a whole world of pain. The ant fell down the plant while trying to block the ladybug.
(Some species of ants have a mutualistic relationship with aphids. They herd the aphids to collect honeydew, and protect them from predators.)
Let's say you are an Evil Corporation in a modern-day urban fantasy #ttrpg setting. And you managed to gain magical control over a group of #ant swarms.
Next time you think, "I can't make a difference, I am only one little person .."👇
This Tiny Ant Species Is Disrupting the Lives of African Lions
"..tiny and seemingly innocuous invasive ant species is changing tree cover in an East African wildlife area, making it harder for lions, the world’s most iconic predator, to hunt its preferred prey, zebra.
"... pulling on the ties that bind an African ecosystem together, determining who is eaten and where,”
I've moved from Mastodon.Social to Sauropods.Win; in celebration here's a Muscleman Tree Ant (Podomyrma gratiosa), looking a little worse for the wear—she's missing a pair of legs!
China ends crackdown on web giants with colossal fines for Ant Group, Tencent (www.theregister.com)
Alibaba's valuation of its fintech outfit now way below numbers touted ahead of cancelled 2020 IPO