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MrILoveTheAnts	Am I Crazy or Are We All?		Lead	[-]
TAFMF Addict Posts: 3121 06/14/2008 9:15 PM	Take a moment and stare at this picture. There are no ants that I know of. It's a simple photograph of a common blue stone. I took it while anting and thought nothing of it until I started staring at it. Something similar to a psychologists showing inkblot seemed to stir up thoughts in me. I found I've been looking for ants long enough that simply looking at this was enough to make me feel curiosity. I'd like to know if simply looking at this is enough to make that little voice in your head want to see what's under it. This isn't a question of self control. I want to know if you've conditioned yourself enough that you want to see what's under it. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v735/mrilovetheants/Ants%202008/Rock.jpg [made the image into a link since it took over about two minutes to download on dial-up at 3 KB/sec] --antdude Would you lift it up to look for ants on any given day? (Result) Yes nothing escapes my curiosity. No I've better things to do, it's just a rock. Maybe, if no one's looking. Last Edited By: antdude 07/30/2008 8:42 PM. Edited 2 times.
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antdude		#1	[url]	[-]
Posts: 17018 06/15/2008 12:55 AM Borg Ant, Your Overlord	I used to do this all the time. I just hate it when I find something else like worms, slugs, snails, etc. Quote of the Week: "No, I'd prefer a cooler WITHOUT an ant-door, thank you..." --unknown. Ant/AntDude @ The Ant Farm (Personal Web Site), Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL), and The Ant Farm and Myrmecology Forum.
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Henchant Posts: 1379 06/15/2008 1:25 AM Henchant	I wouldn't lift this particular rock just because it doesn't look very promising. It looks like it has too much space underneath it for ants to want to live there. Also, doesn't look like its been there very long either, so prolly mostly just dead grass with some worms or something under it. I'd bet at most Tetramorium workers and brood (almost never ever seem to find the queen for Tetramorium underneath a rock regardless of how much of the colony appears to be there). Anything else that does look promising though, I can't keep away from it. I've found that since moving to Washington D.C. for the summer everytime I find a rotting log at least some of the bark needs to come off of it. Today I found Myrmica and some stag beetle looking things as well as termites and some Lasius.
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abuschinger	Am I Crazy or Are We All?	#3	[url]	[-]
Minor Worker Ant Posts: 91 06/15/2008 3:09 AM Young Worker Ant	Hi Milta, Reacker is right. Your slab looks as if it had been overturned a short time before! So no "good" ants to be expected, I would not keep it worth to be taken up. In addition, it has been somebody with little respect for ants and other creatures who had lifted the rock: He should have put it back exactly into its previous position. It needs months or even years until such a rock will be attractive again for the rarer and more interesting ant species. That's my experience over decades of ant-hunting!
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chazzbo77		#4	[url]	[-]
Henchant Posts: 1355 06/15/2008 6:13 PM Henchant	I wouldn't think about it as much as Reacker and abuschinger did, I'd just flip it, replace, and move on .
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Henchant Posts: 1379 06/15/2008 7:04 PM Henchant	I Honestly dont even have to think about it, i just automaticaly classify it as boring and skip it.
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chazzbo77		#6	[url]	[-]
Henchant Posts: 1355 06/15/2008 8:43 PM Henchant	For some reason it would just eat away at me that maybe by some chance a queen settled under there.
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Minor Worker Ant Posts: 104 06/15/2008 11:53 PM	I found my Lasius emarginatus queen under a rock like this
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Doctorant		#8	[url]	[-]
Posts: 257 06/16/2008 1:13 PM Doc. and Soldier Ant	Even knowing better, I'd probably check it. Invasive or disturbance-tolerant ants may be found under such rocks, such as Tetramorium species E or Tapinoma sessile, respectively.
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MrILoveTheAnts		#9	[url]	[-]
TAFMF Addict Posts: 3121 06/16/2008 1:17 PM	It's neat to see not only are you all voting Yes but you're speculating what is under it.
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chazzbo77		#10	[url]	[-]
Henchant Posts: 1355 06/16/2008 7:09 PM Henchant	Not exactly what is under this particular rock, but what could be under a rock that looks like this.
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khaleph		#11	[url]	[-]
Callow Ant Posts: 14 06/19/2008 7:43 AM	I always look under the rocks when I have the chance. I do not do it with the neighbours, but simply to avoid think I'm crazy. Richard Labrecque aka Khaleph http://membre.oricom.ca/melkor/fourmis/ Note: My mother tongue is French, thank you for your comprehension.
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chazzbo77		#12	[url]	[-]
Henchant Posts: 1355 06/19/2008 11:22 AM Henchant	It's one of the perils of ant-keeping in the eyes of the general public .
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antwiki		#13	[url]	[-]
Young Worker Ant Posts: 28 06/19/2008 12:24 PM	chazzbo77 wrote: It's one of the perils of ant-keeping in the eyes of the general public . Ha Ha! Yeah, i was looking at a colony of Pavement Ants and 5 people were looking at me, i guess they were all thinking that i was just looking at the floor because they were just with their eyes wide open. A droplet of water is an ocean to an ant -Antwiki
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MrILoveTheAnts		#14	[url]	[-]
TAFMF Addict Posts: 3121 06/19/2008 12:30 PM	Maybe their hobby is watching us. They're weird.
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antdude		#15	[url]	[-]
Posts: 17018 06/19/2008 12:43 PM Borg Ant, Your Overlord	antwiki wrote: chazzbo77 wrote: It's one of the perils of ant-keeping in the eyes of the general public . Ha Ha! Yeah, i was looking at a colony of Pavement Ants and 5 people were looking at me, i guess they were all thinking that i was just looking at the floor because they were just with their eyes wide open. We all have done that. See this old thread: http://antfarm.yuku.com/topic/812 ... Quote of the Week: "No, I'd prefer a cooler WITHOUT an ant-door, thank you..." --unknown. Ant/AntDude @ The Ant Farm (Personal Web Site), Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL), and The Ant Farm and Myrmecology Forum.
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yliza		#16	[url]	[-]
Young Worker Ant Posts: 58 06/19/2008 1:05 PM	My neighbors probably think I'm nuts :-) I spend a lot of time crouched over in my yard, and I always have my home-made pooter on me. The kids in the nieghborhood look like they'd like to come over and ask questions (which I would love to answer, I think they'd be interested), but I'm always accompanied by a 65-lb Dalmation (known to the ants as Gojirro). Fear of lawsuits makes me keep my distance.
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Posts: 17018 06/19/2008 2:55 PM Borg Ant, Your Overlord	yliza wrote: My neighbors probably think I'm nuts :-) I spend a lot of time crouched over in my yard, and I always have my home-made pooter on me. The kids in the nieghborhood look like they'd like to come over and ask questions (which I would love to answer, I think they'd be interested), but I'm always accompanied by a 65-lb Dalmation (known to the ants as Gojirro). Fear of lawsuits makes me keep my distance. Quote of the Week: "No, I'd prefer a cooler WITHOUT an ant-door, thank you..." --unknown. Ant/AntDude @ The Ant Farm (Personal Web Site), Ant's Quality Foraged Links (AQFL), and The Ant Farm and Myrmecology Forum.
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The Darkwun		#18	[url]	[-]
Adult Worker Ant Posts: 219 07/02/2008 2:04 PM	MrILoveTheAnts wrote: Maybe their hobby is watching us. They're weird. And here we have Chris MrILoveTheAnts who can commonly be found in the NJ area around a movie theater flipping over rocks. Very interesting species indeed.
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MrILoveTheAnts		#19	[url]	[-]
TAFMF Addict Posts: 3121 07/02/2008 3:36 PM	The Darkwun wrote: MrILoveTheAnts wrote: Maybe their hobby is watching us. They're weird. And here we have Chris MrILoveTheAnts who can commonly be found in the NJ area around a movie theater flipping over rocks. Very interesting species indeed. LOL, It's people like that, who are the reason why I carry pepper spray with me. Won't get me in a jar.
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chazzbo77		#20	[url]	[-]
Henchant Posts: 1355 07/03/2008 10:44 AM Henchant	HAHAHA :-D Your Signature ...
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