Ok, see, now what you’ve done here, is given those ants a taste of blood. A taste FOR blood. HUMAN blood. YOUR human blood. You’ve given those ants a taste for your human blood, and now they’re gonna want MORE.
There is a species of spider that almost exclusively eats well fed females of anopheles mosquitos. Super specific identification, right? I just saw a video on them.
It's a test to see whether an animal recognizes itself in the mirror on first exposure. There's usually criteria for it, and results aren't always clear; in the ant version, researchers painted some ants with colored dots, and some with clear, on their heads, then let them see a mirror.
Those with colored dots tried to clean the mark off their own heads; those with clear didn't, suggesting they saw the markings and understood they were seeing themselves. Ants who saw OTHER ants with painted-
dots became aggressive, suggesting to the researchers that that part of their head is used for identifying one another--and also reinforcing the idea that they recognized themselves in the mirror, because otherwise they'd have shown aggression to their own reflection.
There's some fish that have shown recognition; dolphins will turn to try and see the spots on their own body. Human children start passing the test around a year and a half to two years old.
I do wonder if insects are capable of feeling panic, at least how we understand the emotion. Does it understand that it's about to die being torn to pieces by an unfeeling, nearly unthinking collective hivemind horde of chitinous jaws? Does it sink into inevitable acceptance as it's limbs and eyes are removed, or does it simply continue existing, driven by nothing more than robotic instinct, until the lights in it's pinhead gaggle of nerves that serve as a mind finally wink out?
stonetemplefox05
Hell yeah! Kill her Greg!!!
StonesTwice
Now, if we could just get skeeters to land on ant hills
chackstar
Hee hee hee hee hee! Guys! Stop it! I’m full of blood! Ahh! Hahahahaha!
youmakeausername
Great now ants have a taste for blood
JBRPong
Clown2Clown
YourUnderpantsIsCripsy
That was extremely satisfying.
Ash321
ReallyNotSure
thank you for your service!
JoeT85
sound on, definitely sound on.
AboutasSnappyasaZipper
What is this? A buffet for ants?
ComoSeIguana
Wait, you can't tell me that's a mosquito. If it is, DIE FIEND!
ThisIsAllYouCouldComeUpWith
End Of Evangelion vibes
CylensTheDiscourse
"I'll kill you...I'll kill you..."
Rasayana
Plot twist: those are actually invasive murder cancer ants.
ElPresidente99
AreWeNotDoingPhrasingNow
Revenge!
AdroitCudgel
MmmYesShallowAndPedantic
If I could upvote this ten thousand times I would
daringdirk
Is... is she gonna be okay?
bloodomen
Yes, Netflix are doing a second season !
oldguyexlurker
Pretty sure Siddhartha Gautama even swatted those fuckers. FEED THE ANTS.
ionlyregisteredtosavelinks
This kills the mozzie.
Omicron416
Speaking as a Minnesotan: GOOD!
manyslayer
Obviously this is not in New Jersey as you would require two hands to hold a mosquito.
EveryUsernameIsTaken4
So much cruelty... GOOD
RogueLanguageModel
Within no time, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille had disappeared from the face of the earth.
MelfsAcidArrow
Like pigs and a man
eXoRainbow
Wraid
elbowdeepinawhateverthatis
Ok, see, now what you’ve done here, is given those ants a taste of blood. A taste FOR blood. HUMAN blood. YOUR human blood. You’ve given those ants a taste for your human blood, and now they’re gonna want MORE.
Endocrom
Kbantar
There is a species of spider that almost exclusively eats well fed females of anopheles mosquitos. Super specific identification, right? I just saw a video on them.
Calicoastin818
Ants are fascinating
AVaguelyFamiliarUsername
Until they're in your pants.
Calicoastin818
Then you start to dance
madrush
Just take a chance
Calicoastin818
S-A-F-E-T-Y
AVaguelyFamiliarUsername
But what about my friends?
Feralkyn
The fact they pass the fucking mirror test, and a fairly stringent one, obliterates pretty much all our understanding of animal intelligence
Calicoastin818
what’s the mirror test?
Feralkyn
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirror_test More reading!
Feralkyn
It's a test to see whether an animal recognizes itself in the mirror on first exposure. There's usually criteria for it, and results aren't always clear; in the ant version, researchers painted some ants with colored dots, and some with clear, on their heads, then let them see a mirror.
Those with colored dots tried to clean the mark off their own heads; those with clear didn't, suggesting they saw the markings and understood they were seeing themselves. Ants who saw OTHER ants with painted-
Feralkyn
dots became aggressive, suggesting to the researchers that that part of their head is used for identifying one another--and also reinforcing the idea that they recognized themselves in the mirror, because otherwise they'd have shown aggression to their own reflection.
There's some fish that have shown recognition; dolphins will turn to try and see the spots on their own body. Human children start passing the test around a year and a half to two years old.
Calicoastin818
That’s fascinating going to look more into it thank you !!
trinxter
Poor defenseless mosquito just trying to make an honest living.
SavageMyStarAnise
Disease spreading parasites
BerryButcher
Pretty sure they're infinite, they're like roaches - existed before during dino era, exist now and will exist when were long dead.
harthram
Bloodsucker.
Level21Magikarp
She had just passed the BAR exam as well.
emu314159127001
Prolly already gave them the malaria
Teganrose1
Counterpoint: Fuck em
konmari
Counterpoint: it’s not pee I just spilled apple juice on my pants
SuicidalBallsack
calicocutpants.com look it right now if you don’t believe me
Raikupath
Vungor
I prefer womanade anyway.
theovermynd
I do wonder if insects are capable of feeling panic, at least how we understand the emotion. Does it understand that it's about to die being torn to pieces by an unfeeling, nearly unthinking collective hivemind horde of chitinous jaws? Does it sink into inevitable acceptance as it's limbs and eyes are removed, or does it simply continue existing, driven by nothing more than robotic instinct, until the lights in it's pinhead gaggle of nerves that serve as a mind finally wink out?
Deshalope
Bugs produce their own equivalent of adrenaline (octopamine) so they can panic.
txchief11
No
Croaked
Sir this is a Wendy’s.
antleroid