How in the hell do Ants Scout out their food...
 

I left a little bit of a drink in my office upstairs.
Is it true one ant goes out on a mission, looks for sugar/food then goes back and tells all of his friends then they all come back in a single file line and attack the food.

There must be millions walking right past me while I'm typing away.

I hate ants, where's my 409! :mad:

They rub their antennas which produces a high frequency sound that only their buddies can hear..then they pass it on to the nest :winkwink:

coffee grounds put them around the office it repells ants .They dont like the smell

Yes, I had that problem before when living in LA. I went away for a couple of days and i left a glass that had a bit of soda left in it, on the table. When i got back there were thousands of ants all over it. Also at the time i lived on the 6th floor, i wonder how they got in?

Traps work better than the spray shit. Use their system against them. Put a trap next to were they are and let them take the poisen out and then feed colony.

They are amazing creatures.

uhm... did you want to clean them? ;-)

do you mean Raid?

smell and communication...I have ants here in the summer and they're brutal. One ant smells it and tastes it...Then another ant comes around and the first ant rapidly taps his backside on the ground in some kind of morse code telling him to go get the boys...

You can't leave ANYTHING that contains sugar around.

They took the stairs would be my guess.

they dont

While I was fuckin Mrs. Tribble I saw a light out the window
I got up and took a look at it, and I ended up jizing on my window
I got pissed off so I went out side naked and started screaming at the light
The neighbors sat me naked so they called the cops
They cops show up and yell at me for being naked in a residential area
So I get all pissed again, I get on top of the car and pissed on the windshield
The big nig ger one grabs me and handcuffs me
Then they wrap me in a foil blanket and throw me in a cop car
Then I get all pissed off again, and I took a big shit on the seat
I smeared it in a circular motion with my crack
Then I got violent and banged my head on the window
Then the big nig ger one and asked me what that smell was
So I said I took a shit, and the big nig ger one hit me
They drove me to the station booked me, and took me in a room and told me to wait
I waited about 30 minutes
Then the 2 men in black came in one stands in the corner and the other sits down
They asked me what I saw, and I told them I saw a UFO
He then I told me I didn?t see a UFO
I then you don?t tell me what I see
Then he said we can make you disappear
Then I tell them not to threaten me
He then says we can make your wife, kids, and house disappear
Then he pulls a paper out that said I saw a helicopter and I was drunk and high
So I signed it, then I asked what organization they were from
Then the one in the corner and looked at the other and the the one talking said the meeting was over
The cops then took me and threw me into a cell
And the next day I was released and I went home.


Later that afternoon a black military helicopter flew over with no numbers
So I get all pissed off and started throwing shoes at the helicopter and screaming profanities
Then it quickly flew off
15 minutes later a black car pulls up, and the two men in black I saw the day before confront me
The one that didn?t talk cuffs me throws me in a sack and puts me in the trunk
I then start yelling, and Mrs Tribble comes up with a shoe and beats the one that talked yelling I saw it
The one that doesn?t talk pulls out a black object and hits her with it knocking her out
They take her and throw her in the back seat and I still in the trunk in the sack
I start to get pissed off, so I took a piss and yelled I pissed my sack, I pissed my sack
Then they pick me up from the wet sack and put me in the trunk.
The car then starts driving
Were in there for 10 hours
I had to take a shit so I decided to shit my sack
Once we got to the destination they opened the trunk and asked whats that smell
I then reply I shit my sack
They pick me up and took me in a building and then a room
They they bring Mrs Tribble in , She then starts biting the one that don?t talk so he pulls his object out and hits her again
They put her in the corner of the room
Then the one that talked sat me down and said ?you witnessed something that you weren?t suppose to witness that you didn?t witness
What you saw was out of this world technology that you didn?t witness
There are beings that come here to this world that don?t exist
We have an actual alien being here but we don?t actually have it
Were gonna show you it, but you didn?t see it.
Then he says come with me?
And then we all walked down a hall way
We come up to a locked door that opened by DNA finger prints
We go down another hall and in a cell is an alien standing there jizzing on us
And we get hit with a bluish goo. The man in black that talk opened the cell and hit it with the object knocking it out cold
While it?s on the ground it craps itself
The one that talked said ?we showed you something that we didn?t show you
We walk down to the gate and I see Luther Reigns in a cell
Edd asks whats he doing here
He replys he?s not actually here, you didn?t see him
Walked back to the security room where Mrs Tribble is getting up
As soon as she the men in black she throws a chair at the one that talks knocking him down
The 2nd one hits her with object again knocking her out
Then he dragged her out of the room and puts her in the car
And the one that talks put me back in my sack
I asked for a clean one and said your not in a sack it doesn?t exist
They drive me back to my house on the way I piss my sack again.
They take me out of the sack and Mrs Tribble bytes the one that don?t talk
The 2nd one hits her with object again knocking her out cold
He dragged her to the steps and left her there the one that talked said I didn?t witness anything
He said if anyone asked where we were to tell them we weren?t anywhere.
He says we will be watching you and digging threw your trash
They get back in the car and dvive off

Did ants just bit your balls WayneBrady?

hehe, same thing happened to me, just a empty coffee cup in my loft office and the bastards somehow find the way there and theres like a trail onto my desk and the cup, I think they are amazing, why hasnt man learnt something from them? Or have they....

didn't your momma tell you not to talk to bots?

They use satellite, nightvision, and of course they all have blackberries to text each other.

little known fact - every ant has a built-in instant messenger

My sister dropped some food in the passenger seat of my car the other day and the next morning it was full of ants :( Those suckers can get in a car even with the windows rolled up tight. Fortunately they were the little sugar ants that don't bite.

Different types of ants in a hive.. one type are scouts like you said, they roam around looking for food and are the only kind that will find back to the nest, there is no logic in how they search either except that I think they do it in "areas" a bunch of them swarm out in one general direction a certain distance from the nest. And when nothing is found they move to the next bit...

When a scout finds food, it picks it up and wanks back to the nest, leaving a scent trail on the way. Once they cross any other scent trail leading from the nest, the worker ants start walking the new path also... The workers are rather stupid, if you break the path they are basically fucked, they will not find their way back to the nest.

Never saw the movie a Bug's Life huh? :) Its quite accurate in some funny ways.. in the very beginning, there is this trail of worker ants, and a leave drops onto the trail, and the ants all freak out because they do not know where to go anymore, and a scout comes and helps them around the leave, which is like 3 tiny steps <G>

Ahh funny.

When they are carrying food they release a pheromone.

"Ants at Work" by Gordon is pretty interesting.

Airplane reading? :winkwink: