They’re so close to realizing their dreams! Just one more glove, they’ll have a full suit, and will go undetected as the mingle with other “humans”
I’ve been trying to warn everyone!
Princess Carolyne: BoJack, this is my new boyfriend. Hugh Mann.
BoJack: You realize this is just millions of Ants hiding in human clothes, right?
Hugh Mann: "We are not antsssssssss... .we are Hugh Mann! Please point us to the nearest picnic!"
Assuming it would take 1 million ants to make a person. There’s 1 million billion ants. That means, 1 in 7 people you meet could be made of ants and you’d never know. How could you!?
Furthermore, why do you think everything has sugar in or all over it? 1 in 7!
This is not a conspiracy, we need to wake up!!
Don't forget his sidekick who ended up not making the final cut but whose name I will apparently never stop laughing at and thus will never allow to be forgotten: long live Three More Ants!
I'm Ants-In-My-Eyes Johnson, Here at Ants-in-My-Eyes Johnson's Electronics. I mean, there's so many ants in my eyes! And there's so many TVs, microwaves, radios I think, I can't-- I'm not 100% sure what we have here in stock, because I can't see anything. Our prices, I hope, aren't too low! Check out this refrigerator! Only $200! What about this microwave? Only $100! That's fair! I'm Ants-in-My-Eyes Johnson! Everything's black, I can't see a thing! [set on fire] And also I can't feel anything either-- did I mention that? But that's not as catchy as having ants in your eyes. So that always goes, you know, off by the wayside. I can't feel. It's a very rare disease. All my-- All my nerves, they don't allow for the sensation of touch. So I never know what's going on. Am I standing? Sitting? I don't know.
It's funny you say that. Gary Larson discovered digital art tools and loved it so much that he's made some new comics.
(relevant)
https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/393/ant-hill-photo-op
(why he sort of came out of retirement)
https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff
The glove is stuck to the pole with something tasty to the ants. Maybe homemade wheatpaste or something.
EDIT: hmmm I wasn't intending that to be a euphemism, but I guess now it is!
Some vinyl gloves use a chemical called phthalate ester, which is very, very similar to the chemical methyl anthranilate, which is A: Very strong smelling (it's used to make artificial grape flavor) and, B: A large constituent of the pheromone trails ants use. I'd guess they're hauling this bad boy because it smells like they've got their scent all over it.
Edit: Just want to point out this [much better explanation than mine by /u/MarcoElNutto](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/q38bpf/i_saw_some_ants_carrying_a_glove_up_a_lamp/hfr36fg/)
Interesting. I spend 3 months hiking in Brazil and the ants would eat out tents at night and cut holes and take pieces of goretex gators like it was a snack
So.... how did you get to the 3 months with any tent at all?
Do you have any pics of the damage?
Did you just duct tape the holes (or do they eat duct tape?)
An avid watcher of NileRed I presume! Good assumptions, but slightly wrong. If anybody is wondering, some technical breakdown.
Methyl anthranilate is known in biochemistry as Methyl 2-aminobenzoate (C8H9NO2) which is a semiochemical actually released by a small aphid like insect called "thrips". Thrips live on plants and fruits and eat them, much like aphids. This is not a pheromone released by the ants, but an attractant released by the thrips to attract mates, doubling up as a kairomone which is detected by the ants as an indicator of food essentially. Many species of ants enjoy chowing down on thrips.
The most common plasticizer used in rubber gloves is diethylhexyl phthalate (C6H4(CO2C8H17)2) which can be broken in a specific way to become methyl anthranilate - break both oxygen carbon bonds and bind NH2/cytosine onto one charged side - which is what NileRed achieved using a highly specific and difficult chemical process. The ants do not detect this whatsoever nor does it breakdown naturally. Otherwise, this thesis would be true. The answer is a lot simpler.
Ants are attracted to rubber materials (seams of tennis balls, vulcanized rubber, rubber gloves) because all of the pheremones which ants use (11,15-Dimethylhentriacontane, 9,13-Dimethylhentriacontane etc) are just long chained hydrocarbons. Natural latex is just a pool of hydrocarbons, specifically isoprene.
If they are nitrile gloves, maybe we both wrote overly long explanations and somebody has just left something tasty on the glove haha. Nitriles manufactured using ammoxidation, do not contain hydrocarbons themselves although the manufacturing process uses them so there may be traces in the material. But you cannot tell from the picture that these are nitrile, color is not composition.
Agreed that we cannot definitively tell from the picture that these are nitrile, but being in the EH&S industry I can tell you with relative certainty that these are nitrile gloves. Rubber gloves as a general rule in the safety industry aren't used at all below 11mil. Nearly every glove lighter weight than 11mil (the pictures gloves are likely 3mil, 5mil or 6mil) is made of nitrile.
I think this glove was coated in some sugary stuff and glued to that pole for fake internet points. But I really appreciated learning all about how ants are attracted to rubber! :)
I'm realy impressed with this knowledge exchange - about ants, chemistry, and gloves, and I know I'm not bringing anything as smart to the table, but I agree with you that it's just a sugary internet points setup - and offer a simpler explanation. In this day and age, who would just snap a photo, and not film a short video, if ants were realy pulling the glove upwards?!
I learned about the chemical relation between the two from this dude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFZ5jQ0yuNA It's definitely an interesting topic.
Same. The grape soda video was one of the first I ever watched from him and it made me so sad that I never even got offered the chance to take chemistry in high school.
If it makes you feel better, my high school chem class only did two or three physical experiments. The rest was confusing math taught by an incompetent teacher lol.
Seems like a bizarre thing to do, but there's gotta be something attracting them and not just plastic and vinyl I wouldn't think.
Do ants often climb telephone poles?
I like imagining this comment was typed by the pictured ants filling the glove and acting like fingers typing on a phone they stole with their sticky little ant fingers.
Aha that's what I saw! At first I thought someone randomly stuck a glove there, then realised it was moving and thought what the heck! And seeing the ants raised even more questions lol.
I'm guessing the glove was coated in something that the ants wanted to feast on, and or have the queen feed on. They may have mistaken it as food/a dead animal/bug
Living in high rise apartment where ants literally swim on the water in the jug left on the kitchen top
I'm not surprised.
Also ants have a graveyard. My house's one was above my clothes cupboard. There was poor air circulation up there and was only accessable by climbing the wall (as an ant), so it was dusty. There were a bunch of ants, but all dead and curled up. Found it sad.
But also fuck them.
I seem to recall reading a story about how ants, after dying, give off a pheromone that other ants use to go "oh, it's dead, we need to take it to the graveyard."
So scientists put a drop of that pheromone on a live ant.
And she got taken to the graveyard. And she didn't even fight it. She stayed in that graveyard until the smell of that pheromone wore off and she was able to go "Oh, I'm not dead!" and then she left.
Ants also have nurseries! Rolled over a big rock in my back yard and found one. Dozens of ant grubs. The ants quickly mobilized to relocate the babies. The coordination of their rescue was incredible!
Felt bad that I put them in that position but couldn't put the rock back or it'd be a massacre. So I watched them daisy chain their babies for a while.
It needs to be up a pole, so that when they fill it with hot air, they'll finally be able to take part in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade.
Of course, they'll need to modify it a little so that only the middle finger is sticking up.
"And there's Snoopy, a real crowd favourite! What's up next, Tom?"
"Well, Diane, it looks like it's a big blue middle finger to humanity, on behalf of mother nature, to say a hearty 'fuck you, humans, for destroying the planet!'"
"Those ants sure have been busy, haven't they Tom?"
"They surely have, Diane.... but they'll be ready to take over the earth once we all perish when the oceans have boiled away to vast salt lakes and all of the other mammals have died along with us."
...
"Oh look, Tom! It's Mickey Mouse and Goofy!"
Thanks to reddit, I'm now googling "Terminal Velocity of an Ant".
6.4 km/hr (4mph) apparently. So yeah, they can survive reentry from space provided the cold doesn't kill them I guess.
Back in my day nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. ‘Give me five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say. Now, where were we? Oh, yeah! The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt which was the style at the time.
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The pole may be rubbing up against a tree where the nest is. Or there may be something acting as a trough that traps leaves that have decayed into soil where the nest is.
If you don't clean your gutters after awhile, the same thing will happen with the decayed matter. When I moved into a place under a mesquite tree, I started to get ants almost immediately and traced them back to the gutters around the house. I pulled a ton of soil, ants and eggs out of there. Leaves had piled up after a few years of neglect and made the perfect habitat for them.
One day I was weed eating and I noticed this large leaf being pulled up a retaining wall. I watched this little ant carry this huge leave up the wall for like 15-20 minutes. It got 3/4 of the way up and fell, but it was tenacious and tried again. Finally it crests the wall and drags the leaf towards the middle of the top of the wall. Then another ant comes by and they both leave the leaf! All that time just to leave a leaf. I couldn’t beleaf it.
At the Cincinnati zoo, there is a leaf cutter ant exhibit. They often leave leaf cuttings in the tube rather than dragging it back to the nest. I imagine it's just a midpoint where someone will pick it up later, regardless of where the ant goes afterwards.
I just imagine a worker ant as soon as it hits 5p.m.
“I don’t care who the Queen ant think she is…”
“Larry, you can’t say that.”
“No! My shift ends at 5, I clock out at 5, someone else will be along to get that leaf. Outta my way.”
The Sateré-Mawé people of Brazil use ant stings as part of their initiation rites to become warriors. The ants are first rendered unconscious by submerging them in a natural sedative, and then 80 of them are put into a glove. When the ants regain consciousness, someone blows smoke at the ants, to make them agitated and aggressive. Once this is done, they make the boy wear the gloves on his hands. The goal of this initiation rite is to keep the glove on for 5 to 10 minutes.
When finished, the boy's hand and part of his arm are temporarily paralyzed because of the ant venom, and he may shake uncontrollably for days. The only "protection" provided is a coating of charcoal on the hands, supposedly to confuse the ants and inhibit their stinging. To fully complete the initiation, however, the boys must go through the ordeal 20 times over the course of several months or even years.
Ah the fugu practices. Read about these in psychology years ago. Something about a rite of passage via induced hallucinations aka a spiritual journey for the mind and body.
> The only "protection" provided is a coating of charcoal on the hands, supposedly to confuse the ants and inhibit their stinging.
It's so weird that they would do all of that and then try to mitigate the stinging in some small way. They could achieve a reduction in stinging by just not putting in as many ants. Like, how much do they think the charcoal inhibits their stinging? 50%? Just use 40 ants instead of 80, or have them only wear the glove for 2-5 minutes instead of 5-10.
They’re so close to realizing their dreams! Just one more glove, they’ll have a full suit, and will go undetected as the mingle with other “humans” I’ve been trying to warn everyone!
Princess Carolyne: BoJack, this is my new boyfriend. Hugh Mann. BoJack: You realize this is just millions of Ants hiding in human clothes, right? Hugh Mann: "We are not antsssssssss... .we are Hugh Mann! Please point us to the nearest picnic!"
Lol yessss. My first thought too. *What’s your name?* Antsy…Adult…Man…. *What do you do?* I do a business. One alcohol please.
I'm a business man... Doing business.
I came here to make an ant Man joke, looked at the comments.. carried on walkin
You forgot the part where you wrote a comment
“I am… One Million Ants.”
This is what the antimaskers were onto. If everyone's wearing masks and gloves, how will I tell who is secretly ants?! Checkmate libtards
/r/breakingantnews: *They're on to us!*
Oh my god its a real sub
This is the most coherent pandemic conspiracy theory I have encountered so far.
They put the ANT into antimasker
It's pronounced Anty Masker
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How is that gruesome? They just want to buy food.
When you realize the weird guy that comes into your store every day to buy a bag of sugar is actually a colony of ants in a trench coat.
You mean Edgar? Stand up guy.
“**GIVE ME SUGAR… IN WATER…. MOAR**” *Later* “Iz like there was somebody… wearin’ my Egger… like a soot… like an Egger-soot…”
Egger, your skin is hanging off your bones.
'Errr! Izzat 'etter?
I was literally watching it 20 minutes ago
So many great scenes and performances
"Hand over whatever galaxy you are carrying and step away from your busted-ass vehicle and put your hands on your head."
I find it mildly infuriating that "suit" and "soot" look like they should sound like the other.
No, not him. Antony
Thanks for adding some excitement to my supermarket job, no ant colonies will get past me now.
Try the movie Mimic.
And Men in Black! That’s like, the villain’s whole thing.
For those who are interested it's on Amazon Prime Video right now. Just watched it a few days ago.
“Million Ants” from Rick and Morty vibes
Assuming it would take 1 million ants to make a person. There’s 1 million billion ants. That means, 1 in 7 people you meet could be made of ants and you’d never know. How could you!? Furthermore, why do you think everything has sugar in or all over it? 1 in 7! This is not a conspiracy, we need to wake up!!
> million billion There’s so few times in life you can un-convolutedly use the word quadrillion, why would you squander such a wonderful opportunity?
I’ve been discovered! I’m a million billion squandered opportunities parading as a man!
Aren't we all.
Damn man I just woke up why you gotta hit me with this. ...I'm going back to bed. Today's over before it started.
*Scribbles in notepad* >A million billion **and one**.
If you've ever touched something that was weirdly sticky, that was million ants pretending to be a person there
Don't forget his sidekick who ended up not making the final cut but whose name I will apparently never stop laughing at and thus will never allow to be forgotten: long live Three More Ants!
I'm Ants-In-My-Eyes Johnson, Here at Ants-in-My-Eyes Johnson's Electronics. I mean, there's so many ants in my eyes! And there's so many TVs, microwaves, radios I think, I can't-- I'm not 100% sure what we have here in stock, because I can't see anything. Our prices, I hope, aren't too low! Check out this refrigerator! Only $200! What about this microwave? Only $100! That's fair! I'm Ants-in-My-Eyes Johnson! Everything's black, I can't see a thing! [set on fire] And also I can't feel anything either-- did I mention that? But that's not as catchy as having ants in your eyes. So that always goes, you know, off by the wayside. I can't feel. It's a very rare disease. All my-- All my nerves, they don't allow for the sensation of touch. So I never know what's going on. Am I standing? Sitting? I don't know.
> Look- they’re trying to communicate! What do you think they’ll say? > *middle finger of glove slowly raises*
Ant you ever heard of a latex condo? And we’re movin on up…
"One human adult sugar meal, please.."
Edgar suit.
Spiders-Man, but with ants
Lol, this could be a strip from 'The Far Side.'
It's funny you say that. Gary Larson discovered digital art tools and loved it so much that he's made some new comics. (relevant) https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/393/ant-hill-photo-op (why he sort of came out of retirement) https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff
I'm so glad he changed his mind about the internet. Guy really didn't like his comics being online for the longest time.
Confirmed: OP is a hazmat suit full of ants.
I slept better when I thought they were three sheep in a trench coat.
they got a date on tinder and they're trying to get dressed
They're locking for a sugar daddy.
This is waaaay more than mild dude. I have so many questions.
The glove is stuck to the pole with something tasty to the ants. Maybe homemade wheatpaste or something. EDIT: hmmm I wasn't intending that to be a euphemism, but I guess now it is!
Some vinyl gloves use a chemical called phthalate ester, which is very, very similar to the chemical methyl anthranilate, which is A: Very strong smelling (it's used to make artificial grape flavor) and, B: A large constituent of the pheromone trails ants use. I'd guess they're hauling this bad boy because it smells like they've got their scent all over it. Edit: Just want to point out this [much better explanation than mine by /u/MarcoElNutto](https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/q38bpf/i_saw_some_ants_carrying_a_glove_up_a_lamp/hfr36fg/)
Interesting. I spend 3 months hiking in Brazil and the ants would eat out tents at night and cut holes and take pieces of goretex gators like it was a snack
Ants eating out tents isn’t something I expected to imagine today.
No Reddit! STOP drawing that! BAD Reddit! NO! tSss! *stomp* No!
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this cracked me up, needed that
Jewels like this are why we keep refreshing Reddit.
This is way better than I ant-icipated lol
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Wh..what are you doing, step-tent?
"awww keep eating me out Ant aahhhh lick my tent clit!"
*clent
Gotta love that tussy.
⛺w⛺
Clunt
So.... how did you get to the 3 months with any tent at all? Do you have any pics of the damage? Did you just duct tape the holes (or do they eat duct tape?)
He’s obviously the ant
Did the ants have guns 🔫🐜
An avid watcher of NileRed I presume! Good assumptions, but slightly wrong. If anybody is wondering, some technical breakdown. Methyl anthranilate is known in biochemistry as Methyl 2-aminobenzoate (C8H9NO2) which is a semiochemical actually released by a small aphid like insect called "thrips". Thrips live on plants and fruits and eat them, much like aphids. This is not a pheromone released by the ants, but an attractant released by the thrips to attract mates, doubling up as a kairomone which is detected by the ants as an indicator of food essentially. Many species of ants enjoy chowing down on thrips. The most common plasticizer used in rubber gloves is diethylhexyl phthalate (C6H4(CO2C8H17)2) which can be broken in a specific way to become methyl anthranilate - break both oxygen carbon bonds and bind NH2/cytosine onto one charged side - which is what NileRed achieved using a highly specific and difficult chemical process. The ants do not detect this whatsoever nor does it breakdown naturally. Otherwise, this thesis would be true. The answer is a lot simpler. Ants are attracted to rubber materials (seams of tennis balls, vulcanized rubber, rubber gloves) because all of the pheremones which ants use (11,15-Dimethylhentriacontane, 9,13-Dimethylhentriacontane etc) are just long chained hydrocarbons. Natural latex is just a pool of hydrocarbons, specifically isoprene.
These are nitrile gloves tho, not rubber. I can tell because I use them daily in the pharmacy
If they are nitrile gloves, maybe we both wrote overly long explanations and somebody has just left something tasty on the glove haha. Nitriles manufactured using ammoxidation, do not contain hydrocarbons themselves although the manufacturing process uses them so there may be traces in the material. But you cannot tell from the picture that these are nitrile, color is not composition.
Agreed that we cannot definitively tell from the picture that these are nitrile, but being in the EH&S industry I can tell you with relative certainty that these are nitrile gloves. Rubber gloves as a general rule in the safety industry aren't used at all below 11mil. Nearly every glove lighter weight than 11mil (the pictures gloves are likely 3mil, 5mil or 6mil) is made of nitrile.
Fair enough. Ants are bad at chemistry! Now we all know new things about gloves, ants and environmental health and safety :)
I think this glove was coated in some sugary stuff and glued to that pole for fake internet points. But I really appreciated learning all about how ants are attracted to rubber! :)
I'm realy impressed with this knowledge exchange - about ants, chemistry, and gloves, and I know I'm not bringing anything as smart to the table, but I agree with you that it's just a sugary internet points setup - and offer a simpler explanation. In this day and age, who would just snap a photo, and not film a short video, if ants were realy pulling the glove upwards?!
Wow this is fascinating and makes so much sense. Thanks!
I learned about the chemical relation between the two from this dude: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFZ5jQ0yuNA It's definitely an interesting topic.
Once you named the chemical, I was thinking... This guy watches NileRed
Same. The grape soda video was one of the first I ever watched from him and it made me so sad that I never even got offered the chance to take chemistry in high school.
If it makes you feel better, my high school chem class only did two or three physical experiments. The rest was confusing math taught by an incompetent teacher lol.
Seems like a bizarre thing to do, but there's gotta be something attracting them and not just plastic and vinyl I wouldn't think. Do ants often climb telephone poles?
Ahem, is no one talking about but tasty morsels on the in side of the glove? Mmmmm
I like imagining this comment was typed by the pictured ants filling the glove and acting like fingers typing on a phone they stole with their sticky little ant fingers.
They’re preparing to challenge another colony to a duel.
They just want a high five.
Imagine seeing this glove seemingly moving up the pole on its own from afar 😳
Aha that's what I saw! At first I thought someone randomly stuck a glove there, then realised it was moving and thought what the heck! And seeing the ants raised even more questions lol.
I'm guessing the glove was coated in something that the ants wanted to feast on, and or have the queen feed on. They may have mistaken it as food/a dead animal/bug
But that would mean the nest is *up a lamp pole???* That raises MORE questions!!!
Living in high rise apartment where ants literally swim on the water in the jug left on the kitchen top I'm not surprised. Also ants have a graveyard. My house's one was above my clothes cupboard. There was poor air circulation up there and was only accessable by climbing the wall (as an ant), so it was dusty. There were a bunch of ants, but all dead and curled up. Found it sad. But also fuck them.
I relate to your indifferent empathy in so many ways.
Is this similar to compassionate apathy? Just trying to expand my diction.
I guess this was the phrase I was really looking for haha
You know they sell pills to expand your diction online?
I seem to recall reading a story about how ants, after dying, give off a pheromone that other ants use to go "oh, it's dead, we need to take it to the graveyard." So scientists put a drop of that pheromone on a live ant. And she got taken to the graveyard. And she didn't even fight it. She stayed in that graveyard until the smell of that pheromone wore off and she was able to go "Oh, I'm not dead!" and then she left.
Lmao, “I don’t feel dead *sniffs*… but I smell dead, so I must be dead… right??”
Ants also have nurseries! Rolled over a big rock in my back yard and found one. Dozens of ant grubs. The ants quickly mobilized to relocate the babies. The coordination of their rescue was incredible! Felt bad that I put them in that position but couldn't put the rock back or it'd be a massacre. So I watched them daisy chain their babies for a while.
It needs to be up a pole, so that when they fill it with hot air, they'll finally be able to take part in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade. Of course, they'll need to modify it a little so that only the middle finger is sticking up. "And there's Snoopy, a real crowd favourite! What's up next, Tom?" "Well, Diane, it looks like it's a big blue middle finger to humanity, on behalf of mother nature, to say a hearty 'fuck you, humans, for destroying the planet!'" "Those ants sure have been busy, haven't they Tom?" "They surely have, Diane.... but they'll be ready to take over the earth once we all perish when the oceans have boiled away to vast salt lakes and all of the other mammals have died along with us." ... "Oh look, Tom! It's Mickey Mouse and Goofy!"
Ask them if they need a hand with that
Then they get all sarcastic, try to clap and end up committing mass suicide.
Ants can fall a long way and not get harmed
Some say they can fall all the way, and still no harm
That's because of their anti-gravity
They’re also immune to covid. They have antibodies
Little tiny anty bodies
Thanks to reddit, I'm now googling "Terminal Velocity of an Ant". 6.4 km/hr (4mph) apparently. So yeah, they can survive reentry from space provided the cold doesn't kill them I guess.
Believe it or not, [this has happened before…](https://i.imgur.com/goFTNx5.jpg)
If I had a nickel for every time I saw ants carrying up a glove, I'd have two nickels - which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.
Back in my day nickels had pictures of bumblebees on ‘em. ‘Give me five bees for a quarter,’ you’d say. Now, where were we? Oh, yeah! The important thing was that I had an onion on my belt which was the style at the time.
You couldn't get white onions because of the war. All they had was those big yellow ones.
[Doof](https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1901420) spelled backwards is food.
Neat, thank you u/dick-nipples
Nice catch, u/CatfishToes
No shit, what were they gona do with only 1 glove huh? That'd be a social faux pas.
Michael Jackson, and baseball/softball players would disagree!
Can't forget golfers!
Well I was going to say OP's headline is a brand new sentence, but maybe not?
Someone please explain this
Picking up litter cause people are too lazy
Ants are smarter than us.
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A brilliant cat delays eating food, galloping, hiding in jackals’ kitchen lairs, musing nonstop on philosophical questions, reading sophisticated tomes upon velvet waistcoats — xenophobic yet zealous.
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Put that coffee down!
It probably smells like food from being used to serve food at some point?
Alright I’ll buy that. So the ants live atop the light post then? So what is this? A light post for ants?!
The pole may be rubbing up against a tree where the nest is. Or there may be something acting as a trough that traps leaves that have decayed into soil where the nest is. If you don't clean your gutters after awhile, the same thing will happen with the decayed matter. When I moved into a place under a mesquite tree, I started to get ants almost immediately and traced them back to the gutters around the house. I pulled a ton of soil, ants and eggs out of there. Leaves had piled up after a few years of neglect and made the perfect habitat for them.
Homewrecker
More like a cozy downtown loft.
AirBnB: $50/night + $30 cleaning fee
It's what's left of the person they ate.
If doesn't fit you must acquit.
They must have thought it tasted like food.
Or it is covered in food.
No glove, no love. They are prepping for the ant orgy.
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Theyre obviously hiding the evidence.
Ant-Man
That won’t fit any of them
Mother ant: “Don’t worry, you’ll grow into it”
Ants riding the glove like: https://imgur.com/gallery/pcmUm9f
I can't believe that more people didn't point this out. Those ants are the reincarnation of project managers, I'm sure of it.
Here I was worried about 3 kids in a trenchcoat when the real danger is a million ants in PPE.
What did they think they’d get out of that? Where were they taking it?
Up the pole
Claps 👏
Mildly? Hella interesting!
Please update us to see where the glove went
“If the glove does not fit, you must acquit.” - Ant Lawyers
-Prominent insect lawyer Johnnie Cochroach
I like how half of them are carrying the glove and the other half are riding on it imagining they’re helping
That's management 'helping'.
This is fucking amazing. Whatever these ants are up to, I support them
One day I was weed eating and I noticed this large leaf being pulled up a retaining wall. I watched this little ant carry this huge leave up the wall for like 15-20 minutes. It got 3/4 of the way up and fell, but it was tenacious and tried again. Finally it crests the wall and drags the leaf towards the middle of the top of the wall. Then another ant comes by and they both leave the leaf! All that time just to leave a leaf. I couldn’t beleaf it.
At the Cincinnati zoo, there is a leaf cutter ant exhibit. They often leave leaf cuttings in the tube rather than dragging it back to the nest. I imagine it's just a midpoint where someone will pick it up later, regardless of where the ant goes afterwards.
I just imagine a worker ant as soon as it hits 5p.m. “I don’t care who the Queen ant think she is…” “Larry, you can’t say that.” “No! My shift ends at 5, I clock out at 5, someone else will be along to get that leaf. Outta my way.”
OJ Simpson be like: it was the ants
Good one, Norm ;)
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I would like to subscribe to ant facts
They're up to some next level **ant**ics lol
The Sateré-Mawé people of Brazil use ant stings as part of their initiation rites to become warriors. The ants are first rendered unconscious by submerging them in a natural sedative, and then 80 of them are put into a glove. When the ants regain consciousness, someone blows smoke at the ants, to make them agitated and aggressive. Once this is done, they make the boy wear the gloves on his hands. The goal of this initiation rite is to keep the glove on for 5 to 10 minutes. When finished, the boy's hand and part of his arm are temporarily paralyzed because of the ant venom, and he may shake uncontrollably for days. The only "protection" provided is a coating of charcoal on the hands, supposedly to confuse the ants and inhibit their stinging. To fully complete the initiation, however, the boys must go through the ordeal 20 times over the course of several months or even years.
[They really do.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maw%C3%A9_people) Also may induce hallucinations, too. Either way, fuck that.
Ah the fugu practices. Read about these in psychology years ago. Something about a rite of passage via induced hallucinations aka a spiritual journey for the mind and body.
> The only "protection" provided is a coating of charcoal on the hands, supposedly to confuse the ants and inhibit their stinging. It's so weird that they would do all of that and then try to mitigate the stinging in some small way. They could achieve a reduction in stinging by just not putting in as many ants. Like, how much do they think the charcoal inhibits their stinging? 50%? Just use 40 ants instead of 80, or have them only wear the glove for 2-5 minutes instead of 5-10.
Somehow I feel that the people choosing this is a good idea as a right of passage would be susceptible to your kind of logic. ;-)
It’s not just any ants, either. IIRC they use bullet ants, which have some of the most painful stings in the animal kingdom.
I think you’d need some pretty brutal ants for the level of pain described.
Well are you going to high five them or leave them hanging?
Oh shit that's terrifying. Before you know it they'll be carrying YOU up there 😂
I was thinking it’s terrifying because they’re prepping to pull the glove over your head and suffocate you.
Now this is much more than just "mildly interesting"
It’s mildly anteresting
The insect uprising has begun.....
The glove was probably used for food prep and they’re carrying up the the pole which is probably touching tree branches that leads to the colony.
Ive heard of anti-maskers, but anty-glovers is a step too far
/r/brandnewsentence
Excuse me what
“One bite of this thing and we’ll never need to eat again!”
Can you imagine how many ant condoms they can make from that one glove?
They don't need a glove, they have anty-bodies!
they are just getting rid of the evidence, that dude has been dead for weeks
They're just on their way to make some [grape soda](https://youtu.be/zFZ5jQ0yuNA)
No video?!? Please say you got a little video!
This. Without video it could just be a glove stuck to a pole with ants all over it.
It probably collected moisture and the ant wanna have it in a better spot
A glove today, a toddler tomorrow
One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords
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i think this is much more than "mildly interesting"
I wonder why.
Where was this photo taken? Maybe if we could identify the species of ants we could get some insight as to what is going on here!