So fire ants, what's their beef? And also, are they solid or liquid? Ye. So whyfire ants are just like, like, so mad? So ants will defend their nests. Yn the same thing gos with he ants in the aphid, they won't ne they might eat an aphid once in a while. Oh, they carefully transport them around, um, and adaptively manage it. They sometimes, you know, they'll kill off a plant by using too many of them. But oftentimes they use ranching management techniques. Ye, that's so wild west. That's insane.
You have ants. We all have ants, but do we KNOW ants? Get ready for cult-leader queens, bullet ant stings, kitchen pest hacks, the dynamics of a billion-sister megacolony. Dr. Terry McGlynn sits down to have a BIG discussion about itty-bitty creatures in this encore because I was out of town seeing my family and just needed a week off. Learn about tropical ants, urban ants, how they walk on water, which ones are picky eaters, which ones make weird sounds, what ant movies are bunk, and some help-help takeaways. Also: sniffing your relatives before deciding to kill them. Ooooh, it’s a classic.
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