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Anonymous
Anybody know much about ants?

Two days ago I found a winged queen black ant in my bathroom and killed it. (Kind of mean, I know, but I didn't want it starting a colony in my apartment.)

Yesterday morning I awoke to find 3 million worker ants in my bathroom. My theory is that they followed the scent of the queen that was released when I killed her. Is this how it works? I have no other explanation, because THIS morning and all afternoon, I have yet to see one little ant.
>> Anonymous
I doubt it. The colony was always there, but you never noticed. What you squashed was one of the first fertile animals that are released by the colony. They only do that once or twice a year.
The workers swarm out to prepare the launch of the winged fertile animals. When all is save and the weather is right the winged ones are released.
>> Anonymous
you killed their queen! they're out for your blood now!
>> Anonymous
Shit dude, you killed their queen. Sell your apparment and move to Canada. They'll get you in your sleep.
>> Anonymous
3million??

pics or didnt happen

you're in big shit nao
>> Anonymous
Ants navigate by scent and pheromone trails and they do have a sense of when something isnt right or workers are missing.

Had a small problem of ants coming into a room at my work, because one idiot would leave his food around. Took out all the trash and cleaned up and suddenly there were about 20 ants out in a Search and Rescue for the missing ones that got thrown in the trash.

After heavy cleaning and spraying the area with air freshener that wiped out their scent trail and I haven't seen them around for quite a while.

Your colony will get a new queen, there are always female ants being born but they are quickly killed to protect hierarchy
>> Anonymous
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The queen inside the hive does not have wings.
The fertile females only have wings before they mate. After mating in they fly somewhere and start a new colony. They loose their wings and become really bloated with eggs.

You did not kill a queen, just a princess.
>> Anonymous
you're going to nibbled to pieces by ants after they suffocate you by cramming into your windpipe

good going, man
>> Anonymous
>>97728
by "lose their wings" you mean "are torn off for her own protection", then yes.
>> Anonymous
>>97721
>Your colony will get a new queen, there are always female ants being born but they are quickly killed to protect hierarchy.

Are you saying they kill all female ants? wtf. i thought that all the workers were female in the first place.
>> Anonymous
>>97734

they're infertile females. he means fertile females. in the kingdom of insects gender means as little as which side of the DNA you carry. if you can't reproduce, your gender is meaningless.
>> Anonymous
This thread is now all about Ants.

Ants will:

-keep livestock
-perform security in exchange for commodities
-create and tend gardens
-cultivate fungus
>> NewtypeChild
Ants are pretty cool to me, as long as they work outside clearing my yard of insects what not.

They aren't allowed inside to steal my food >:O
>> Anonymous
OP here, it's been a good 36 hours since the initial invasion. Still no sign of further ants.

Anomaly, or calm before the storm?
>> Moo !XBOXgikTFw
>>97803
They're gathering troops.
>> Anonymous
>>97803
probably mating season is over.
No more need to swarm outside of the hive, so they stay put.
>> natureboy
More than likely if the ants that you found appeared to be of the same 'breed', they would of followed the scent trail.

How ever, if you see one ant wondering around your room etc, that is usually the 'tracker ant' leaving a scent trail for his worker ants to follow. I usually stamp a foot down on those ones.

You get different ants through different parts of the day, also if the ant had wings it could of been the breeding season of ants too especially if its warm.
>> Anonymous
Eh atleast you don't have ants in your fridge, I found 2 dead ones in mine about a week ago.