Ants can't really eat solid food. They need to crush and drink everything. But the larvae can chew, so the ants bring things like cricket legs home to be eaten "by the kids"
@mcnknopp @lappenjammer i just wonder if we could come up with a crunchy cricketey morsel we could give them with moisture in it. Cricket biscuits quick someone register that domain…they love morcels do you want to make the recipe in the lab and do a break down the metabolism to make sure ingredients are healthy and maybe a feeding schedules .its a dumb idea isn’t it lol 😆 sorry
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It's all very Alexander McQueen. Everyone is going for that spiky look.
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Those are her maxillary palps. All ants have them, they help them to taste food an eat.
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They are much longer than on other ants... I don't know why. So much to learn about these tiny creatures.
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Ants can't really eat solid food. They need to crush and drink everything. But the larvae can chew, so the ants bring things like cricket legs home to be eaten "by the kids"
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It’s a treat! I love this.
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OMG DO YOU KNOW ABOUT DRACULA ANTS?!?
(You probably know about Dracula ants.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adetomyrma_venatrix
species of insect
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Either base 4 (they have 2 "fingers" on each arm) or maybe base 12? (2 tarsal claws per limb?)
Or they could use base 8... and take advantage of spider math by using their antennae to count.
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I kinda love balanced ternary and I am trying to come up with a reason that ants would like it too
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary
numeral system that uses the digits -1, 0 and, 1
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