• SmokeInFog@midwest.socialEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Argentine ants living in vast numbers across Europe, the US and Japan belong to the same inter-related colony, and will refuse to fight one another.

    The colony may be the largest of its type ever known for any insect species, and could rival humans in the scale of its world domination.

    What’s more, people are unwittingly helping the mega-colony stick together.

    Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) were once native to South America. But people have unintentionally introduced the ants to all continents except Antarctica.

    Keanu Reeves in The Matrix: Whoa

  • Beep22@kbin.social
    4·
    1 year ago

    Every year the ants attack my house. Every year I fight them off. I didn’t realise how hilariously outnumbered I am. I feel … itchy.

    • Nakari Lexfortaine@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Ants and fungi are inevitable, undefeatable.

      People talk about roaches being the next species to thrive after we fuck ourselves. That will be a short-lived empire.

      They will fall before the Mushroom Warriors, riding upon their giant ants without a Buick in sight to crush them.