Comments for "A lone worker ant carrying a pill by herself." Video at VideoSift.com

By lavoll

lavoll (http://www.videosift.com/member/lavoll) — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:35:51 -0700

ants are fascinating

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 15:47:49 -0700

lavoll: Indeed.

By persephone

persephone (http://www.videosift.com/member/persephone) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:33:57 -0700

Hope they don't OD on whatever it's bringing home to the nest.

By dag

dag (http://dag.videosift.com) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 06:46:49 -0700

It's viagra for the queen's concubines.

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 08:29:51 -0700

Dag: HA!

persephone: OD?

By MarineGunrock

MarineGunrock (http://gunrock.videosift.com) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:20:18 -0700

Aren't drones males?

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:35:26 -0700

MarineGunrock: Good question. See http://p211.ezboard.com/fantfarmtheantfarmsmessageboard.showMessage?topicID=5724.topic ...

By Spiff

Spiff (http://www.videosift.com/member/Spiff) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 13:50:15 -0700

Wow...when pharmaceutical companies decided to start marketing directly to consumers, they really wanted to make sure all of their bases were covered, eh?

By AnimalsForCrackers

AnimalsForCrackers (http://www.videosift.com/member/AnimalsForCrackers) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 14:20:18 -0700

I really do wonder if an ant colony (collectively, by feeding the developing larvae) may develop a physiological addiction to certain drugs and then raid normal human habitat to get their fix.

And so the vicious cycle begins...

By kingsblood

kingsblood (http://www.videosift.com/member/kingsblood) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 15:49:24 -0700

That looks like ant #142 from my ant farm! She stole my freakin' pills!

By Chaucer

Chaucer (http://www.videosift.com/member/Chaucer) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 18:56:45 -0700

so did it make it back?

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:00:35 -0700

Chaucer: Who knows. Worker ants are females BTW.

By deedub81

deedub81 (http://www.videosift.com/member/deedub81) — Sun, 30 Sep 2007 19:34:46 -0700

Big deal. The other day I picked up a whole bottle of pills.

By ant

ant (http://www.videosift.com/member/ant) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 11:59:56 -0700

MachineGunrock: From my forum, "Drone is not a myrmecological term, which is to say it has no formal use in regard to ants. As an entomological term the word refers only to the males of honeybees. In non-entomological language as applied to humans, drone refers to the concept of a mindless, duty-bound laborer, and there is a military use of the term as an unpiloted spy plane. Neither has anything to do with the apiarist's meaning of the word, though the first is somewhat similar to the way workers in a social insect colony are viewed. Either way, you won't see the word drone used in any scientific, or even in well-written popular writing on ants."

By arvana

arvana (http://arvana.videosift.com) — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 22:32:58 -0700

That must be one MASSIVE headache!