Then [go back to growing shrooms](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-ants-became-worlds-best-fungus-farmers-180962871/) after war has subsided.
If an ant can easily lift someone that is 100 times its size, imagine the havoc they can cause if they invaded as an army. They can easily put their predators in trouble.
I mean, isn't that the case for us humans, too?
There is a famous German quote from Brecht:
"Erst kommt das Fressen, dann die Moral", transl.: "Food is the first priority, morality second".
One of the few things I remember from the intro ethics is Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs. Physiological needs (food, water, and air) must be met before any thing else is even considered.
Im just curiously dumbfounded on how they got the chain from the roof edge to the nest. Like did it start off attached to ceiling and fall into a hanging chain or did those crazy buggers swing that thing over like a bloody Indiana Jones?
Gravity, they can pick up things heavier then themselves because legs on the ground support them. They can’t do it upside down because the legs aren’t supporting the weight.
Thinking about it, probably they reached it by walking on the roof than they start falling under their own weight and created this bridge that goes down to the floor
While I don't feel like this is necessarily the case for this, along a similar idea I wonder if it has to do with the ant having less grip strength on the ceiling to be able to carry stuff vs being able to grab on better to fellow ants.
Overengineering? Just because? I guess it really depends on which ant is in charge. Ask anybody in construction why it takes two months to finish 3 days of work.
Serious question, can you say a bit more about this? Like is it sort of a reasonable thing that circumstances, permits, regulations, stat holidays, materials order errors etc. would cause this kind of delay, or is it incompetence?
My dad used to be a foreman, he did plenty of the work himself too. A lot if times inspectors can slow things down, to ensure things are up to code; they need to wait for them to be available. Other times clients make stupid requests, that are definitely unsafe or need additional materials they didn't order in the initial plans.
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One of the prior times this was posted, there was an entomologist who explained, what we are seeing is the result of a procession of ants following one another on the ceiling.
The chain was built on the ceiling first and then as their weight pulled them down, you have the sag and more ants to support the structure.
Thank you! I knew they could do this, and in water. But I never knew how they accomplished the upward curve hahaha.
You've finally brought some sense into my world lol
I used to have beef with the kingdom of ants near my place. Until one day a couple of wasps woke me up at my room and one of them stung me in the chest. I managed to capture the culprit and isolate him in a jar. Then I proceed to hunt down predator-style all the remaining wasps with an extra large pair of medical tweezers. After the carnage to the wasps I decided to make amends with ants and offered the corpses of the enemy wasps as a peace treaty. The ants stopped raiding my place as I kept feeding them the wasp tributes, and so peace was achieved. Good times.
It goes unnoticed in the human world but in the anta circles this treaty is highly praised as a victory in the path of human-ant peace. We have harmony for now…
The story of my life man, and as years went by the ants and I have learned to prosper next to each other. I’m still vigilant for the wasps to return and extradite the remains of the original wasp that stung me. But that’s a war trophy that rests on my mantle.
Why this happens.
> This video shows Eciton burchellii parvispinum, the dark “subspecies”, and was recorded on the Pacific side of Costa Rica. These kinds of ropes look cool, but, just like the army ant “death spirals”, I don’t think they’re adaptive. This is to say that they don’t make it easier for the ants to reach the wasp nest, and you never (as far as I know) see this in their natural habitat (where you don’t have smooth, horizontal surfaces like this).
>
> But I’ve seen pictures of essentially the same phenomenon at other places, including, for example, on the bungalows at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica. What I believe happens is that the ants recruit strongly to a wasp nest, which are often located on these kinds of overhangs at manmade buildings. Under strong traffic over the smooth surface the ants start slipping and cling to each other, forming a small loop. Given the weight of this nascent loop, the sustained heavy traffic, and the slippery surface, the loop keeps extending, and ultimately you end up with a giant structure like this. Eventually this must either rupture or slowly recede as the traffic decreases.
https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2020/10/29/an-explanation-for-the-hanging-ant-bridge/
We're beekeepers in the eastern US and, in our first year, we put our freshly acquired honey on a table in our shed. We had ordered bottles, but they hadn't arrive yet, so it was sitting in a 5 gallong bucket.
Knowing we had ants, we put each table leg in a bowl of oil to prevent them from climbing the table to the honey. At one point, we found ants in the honey and a trail of them along the table to the wall where they had made a bridge like this between the wall and the table edge, which was a length of probably six to eight inches.
Prior to that, I had no idea that was even possible and, while I was annoyed that they had gotten into our honey, I was fascinated with the phenomenon. To this day, I would like to see how it starts - how they manage to reach from one point to the other in order to make the bridge.
Not to mention, they are second most on total biomass on the planet. About 32 billion people eq.
And this is from 2011 | ^11 ^years ^ago
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/11/03/141946751/along-with-humans-who-else-is-in-the-7-billion-club
Imagine having the ability to control arthropods, with the sheer number of bugs living on earth. Biblical plagues wouldn't be far off, just a billion ants covering a building along with any other bugs in the area.
Wih them coming from the ceiling?? I’d almost expect them to just walk across it straight to the hive. But this is crazy, I knew they could form chains and survive on water but I didn’t know they could do it like this.
When I was a kid, a starling died on our carport; a giant ant nest was living under the carport slab. In less than 45 minutes, the ants had carried the bird to the opposite corner of the slab, dismembered it, and dragged the butchered starling into the nest.
Talk about problem solving 101. We're being lied to...haha. How many of these smart animal mother's exist? We're doomed! 
Trever: “Okay Sebation, a raid is a good idea, but how do we actually transport things?”
Sebation: “Well obviously we need a bridge but what do we make it out of…”
Quavic: “…What if we mount our friends…”
Trever: “What? No!”
Sebation: “…”
Trevor: “Sebation…”
Sebation: “…That could work.”
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Here let me just destroy your house, kidnap your unborn children, and feed them to my queen.
Then [go back to growing shrooms](https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-ants-became-worlds-best-fungus-farmers-180962871/) after war has subsided.
Just like Cincinnantus.
CincinnANTus
That was such a fascinating read, thanks!
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Ants hatch the craziest plans
If an ant can easily lift someone that is 100 times its size, imagine the havoc they can cause if they invaded as an army. They can easily put their predators in trouble.
When we were kids we used to take garden shovels and mix fire and hills. The wars they would have were insane
As an adult this sounds like a great idea
Waterproof flamethrower it is!
It’s all about food?
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I mean, isn't that the case for us humans, too? There is a famous German quote from Brecht: "Erst kommt das Fressen, dann die Moral", transl.: "Food is the first priority, morality second".
One of the few things I remember from the intro ethics is Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs. Physiological needs (food, water, and air) must be met before any thing else is even considered.
“Fressen” is usually applied to animals, and pejoratively to people. So the statement is a bit rougher than that. More like “Grub first, then morals”.
They just didn’t want them to have air superiority.
This is so cool, thanks for sharing. I’m surprised the wasps retreat, I’d think they could kill ants easily.
This is a small nest, against that massive ant colony there is no chance for the wasps to win.
Wasp vs ant, sure. 50 wasps vs 200,000 ants, not so much.
Across water you say? It's probably only the males that do that right? You know, because they're buoyant.
Could've just left the U out and it would've been perfect
The Exiles fleeing to rebuild their strength that eventually try to take back their homeland
What do they do with the adults?
Pull them apart and gobble up the goey center
They take the females and kill the males
Im just curiously dumbfounded on how they got the chain from the roof edge to the nest. Like did it start off attached to ceiling and fall into a hanging chain or did those crazy buggers swing that thing over like a bloody Indiana Jones?
Wasps make honeycomb?
I don't get it. why even do the chain if they can walk on the roof?
Gravity, they can pick up things heavier then themselves because legs on the ground support them. They can’t do it upside down because the legs aren’t supporting the weight.
Thinking about it, probably they reached it by walking on the roof than they start falling under their own weight and created this bridge that goes down to the floor
Bridge doesn't go to the floor, the bridge goes back to the ceiling. This video is cut short.
Yes i've mispoken i meant the belly of the bridge,
While I don't feel like this is necessarily the case for this, along a similar idea I wonder if it has to do with the ant having less grip strength on the ceiling to be able to carry stuff vs being able to grab on better to fellow ants.
They’re efficiently inefficient.
If what you have in large supply is workers, it might not be that inefficient
Overengineering? Just because? I guess it really depends on which ant is in charge. Ask anybody in construction why it takes two months to finish 3 days of work.
Touche
Serious question, can you say a bit more about this? Like is it sort of a reasonable thing that circumstances, permits, regulations, stat holidays, materials order errors etc. would cause this kind of delay, or is it incompetence?
My dad used to be a foreman, he did plenty of the work himself too. A lot if times inspectors can slow things down, to ensure things are up to code; they need to wait for them to be available. Other times clients make stupid requests, that are definitely unsafe or need additional materials they didn't order in the initial plans.
Clients making stupid requests... nooooo that's not a thing. Bored spouses of rich partners can eat my ass with a spoon. Go do a puzzle or something.
Got it, thanks.
Maybe they can walk on roof only without carrying anything.
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But the video shows them crawling on the roof?
Well you'll notice he didn't say they can't do it at all.
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Again touche
One of the prior times this was posted, there was an entomologist who explained, what we are seeing is the result of a procession of ants following one another on the ceiling. The chain was built on the ceiling first and then as their weight pulled them down, you have the sag and more ants to support the structure.
Thank you! I knew they could do this, and in water. But I never knew how they accomplished the upward curve hahaha. You've finally brought some sense into my world lol
Because it's dope as hell
I used to have beef with the kingdom of ants near my place. Until one day a couple of wasps woke me up at my room and one of them stung me in the chest. I managed to capture the culprit and isolate him in a jar. Then I proceed to hunt down predator-style all the remaining wasps with an extra large pair of medical tweezers. After the carnage to the wasps I decided to make amends with ants and offered the corpses of the enemy wasps as a peace treaty. The ants stopped raiding my place as I kept feeding them the wasp tributes, and so peace was achieved. Good times.
Treaty of Versailles
It goes unnoticed in the human world but in the anta circles this treaty is highly praised as a victory in the path of human-ant peace. We have harmony for now…
I feel like this is the synopsis of a really good book.
The story of my life man, and as years went by the ants and I have learned to prosper next to each other. I’m still vigilant for the wasps to return and extradite the remains of the original wasp that stung me. But that’s a war trophy that rests on my mantle.
Antle*
You're officially our ambassador to the anta.
My kinda ants.
Why this happens. > This video shows Eciton burchellii parvispinum, the dark “subspecies”, and was recorded on the Pacific side of Costa Rica. These kinds of ropes look cool, but, just like the army ant “death spirals”, I don’t think they’re adaptive. This is to say that they don’t make it easier for the ants to reach the wasp nest, and you never (as far as I know) see this in their natural habitat (where you don’t have smooth, horizontal surfaces like this). > > But I’ve seen pictures of essentially the same phenomenon at other places, including, for example, on the bungalows at La Selva Biological Station in Costa Rica. What I believe happens is that the ants recruit strongly to a wasp nest, which are often located on these kinds of overhangs at manmade buildings. Under strong traffic over the smooth surface the ants start slipping and cling to each other, forming a small loop. Given the weight of this nascent loop, the sustained heavy traffic, and the slippery surface, the loop keeps extending, and ultimately you end up with a giant structure like this. Eventually this must either rupture or slowly recede as the traffic decreases. https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2020/10/29/an-explanation-for-the-hanging-ant-bridge/
Costa Rica. Got it. Adding that to my list of places to never go.
Don’t do that to yourself, it’s beautiful, the food is amazing and the has sooooo much to offer than just the touristy beaches that most go to!
Had I not been there before, I might be inclined to agree after seeing this horror. But I strongly recommend you go if you can.
We're beekeepers in the eastern US and, in our first year, we put our freshly acquired honey on a table in our shed. We had ordered bottles, but they hadn't arrive yet, so it was sitting in a 5 gallong bucket. Knowing we had ants, we put each table leg in a bowl of oil to prevent them from climbing the table to the honey. At one point, we found ants in the honey and a trail of them along the table to the wall where they had made a bridge like this between the wall and the table edge, which was a length of probably six to eight inches. Prior to that, I had no idea that was even possible and, while I was annoyed that they had gotten into our honey, I was fascinated with the phenomenon. To this day, I would like to see how it starts - how they manage to reach from one point to the other in order to make the bridge.
Asshole wasps. Good
r/fuckwasps
Is that the block chain?
Go you little buggers
As someone who has been battling ants for months I’m so torn.
r/natureismetal totally needs to see this. Also I found out from r/permaculture that wasps eat caterpillars, aphids, grasshoppers and other pests.
At this point I am not sure what to be more afraid of ants or wasps
Nature uh... finds a way
I’d like to subcontract them out
Damn, and I’d be scared of the wasps? Rethinking that now!
Yea... Everyone looks at me wide eyed when I say I'm terrified of ants. There's so many reasons of why they're terrifying
Not to mention, they are second most on total biomass on the planet. About 32 billion people eq. And this is from 2011 | ^11 ^years ^ago https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2011/11/03/141946751/along-with-humans-who-else-is-in-the-7-billion-club
Imagine having the ability to control arthropods, with the sheer number of bugs living on earth. Biblical plagues wouldn't be far off, just a billion ants covering a building along with any other bugs in the area.
When it comes to “war” ants are very similar to humans and this is mainly due to the complexity of the colonies (size, organizational structure, etc)
“Humans are the only species to wage war” mf’s when I show them ants
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Forbidden Limbo
I have but 1 upvote to give. Too bad
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Ants, building bridges and reaching out.
The war has begun! For the Queen 👑! 😂
Wtf kind of ants are those?
Big
Army
I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.
He can't do this! He's just an ant! Edit: No offense...
Whose side are we on here?
They didnt show the full chain... r/killthecamerman
r/gifsthatendtoosoon
Who let the wasp nest get that big in the first place ? The ants should go after that human! A can of raid is only about $5!
I seen a tiny ant spook a brown recluse spider. Blew my mind.
Holy sh*t. So the movie WAS real
You know what? Fuck you *builds living chain to your nest*
Okey, thats just brutal
Fall in line.... Maggot
Ants: MEN! TO BATTLE!!
This clip ends frustratingly early.
Yeah. I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit…😬
Why does this remind me of Star Wars lol
Must be in Australia.
Im gonna eat that thing like a nerd rope
Those ants have balls of steel
That's a lot of ants
Forbidden swing
Thank God ants are the size they are....imagine if they were the size of dogs
See this is just mob mentality. More hive mind stuff. Woodstock 99 all over again. Wake up sheepants!
This house has alot going on. Alot of fuckery.
Spawn kills on the wasps, I approve
Nope
Ants: "We are here for your honey." Bees: "HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA..." Ants: "Maneuver B-748..." Bees: "What... The... Fuck."
Ants are awesome. They once fixed my soda soaked modem...
I feel bad for the ant on the bottom.
The ants go marching one by one hurrah hurrah
Wih them coming from the ceiling?? I’d almost expect them to just walk across it straight to the hive. But this is crazy, I knew they could form chains and survive on water but I didn’t know they could do it like this.
When I was a kid, a starling died on our carport; a giant ant nest was living under the carport slab. In less than 45 minutes, the ants had carried the bird to the opposite corner of the slab, dismembered it, and dragged the butchered starling into the nest.
#justantthings
#livelaughlarvae
How does that work as the start building the chain? Don't they gravitate downward due to weight before it gets anchored to the other side?
That realization I get from time to time of how cool is it that insects can walk upside down.
Burn it now!
this doesnt make sense. How did they lift the chain to the nest?
I have no idea why but I read this as "AITA for forming a hanging chain to raid a wasp nest?"
Ants are metal. Some are fire, you don't want to mess with those.
Have you heard about Teamworks ? -Ants
Deleted scenes from “Bug’s Life”
How tf did they get it to go back up
throw da whole house away
World of Goo vibes
No
Great teamwork
Oh cool, something that’s way worse to walk through than a spiderweb
Downvoted for cutting video short, not actually showing the chain link.
I’m an asshole who would have got some bug spray and stopped that whole fiesta
World war Z antz
That is truly insane. how the hell did they get there??
Happy to see this
Do you live in hell? Because that’s how I imagine hell
"I've got good news and bad news." "Bad news." "There are ants all over the house."
Fuck those wasps up ants
/r/fuckwasps
Wait! Isn't that Z and Weaver I see at the top?
I’m here for this whole ant commando business. Godspeed!
r/fuckwasps
Let the monsters kill each other
That needs to be on r/nope
Ants are metal.
Damn, then infuse them with graphene, space elevators yo
Why’d the chain have to be so long tho 💀??
r/fuckwasps would love this
personally i wouldn't take that level of disrespect
What is this, a chain for ants?
Why don't they just walk on the ceiling? This seems a bit extra
r/natureismetal
What is this? A d-day for ants?!
Is no one mentioning the issue of the ants going in the house? Wasp nest is just the Appetizer. Human nest is what really for dinner..
Flamethrower.
Why do the ants need a bridge? Can't they just walk up to it?
Australia
Seeing this in my feed, I audibly mumbled "that's insane" and then saw what sub this was. A+ content
Wow
The bros that we didn’t know we wanted.
I could not resisit using a lighter yher
Nope rope.
r/fuckwasps
Doing God’s work
Talk about problem solving 101. We're being lied to...haha. How many of these smart animal mother's exist? We're doomed! 
Why build a hanging chain when they can just walk on the ceiling?
Good girls...
Doing God's work
r/fuckwasps
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Leeeeerrrrrooooooyyyyyyy JENKINS!!!!
Kill it with fire
That chain length is not very efficient
Trever: “Okay Sebation, a raid is a good idea, but how do we actually transport things?” Sebation: “Well obviously we need a bridge but what do we make it out of…” Quavic: “…What if we mount our friends…” Trever: “What? No!” Sebation: “…” Trevor: “Sebation…” Sebation: “…That could work.”
The crazy thing though is this is not done as instructed by some Ant General. This is a collective happening coordinated without plan or leadership.
r/nope
awesome stuff. also a little r/killthecameraman because we never see the floor
The real Chain gang
I hate wasps.
While that is amazing, I'm gonna help my little ant bros out and get that wasp nest close to them
Wasps thinking we can fly and sting. We rule. Ants thinking let's build a living looping bridge and then at the same time kill a large nest of wasps.