Ants rasing butterflies

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Maphusio

Sonny, I Watched the Vault Bein' Built!
At first I thought, OK, so they hatch the butterflies and all is well... but this is borderline amazing.

It turns out that ant queens make subtle sounds that signal their special status to worker ants. The caterpillars have learned to mimic those sounds, the researchers say, earning high enough status to be rescued before others if the nest is disturbed.
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But in an experiment, a butterfly pupa pretending to be an ant queen was placed in a chamber with worker ants and four real ant queens. The ant queens began to attack and bite the caterpillar, but the workers intervened, biting and stinging their own queens, which they then pulled to a far corner of the chamber while other workers attended the pupa.
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Lol, the queens got sent to their time-out corners.

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So, if I could mimic the sound, I could have my own ants army.

I would create me a nice costume and call me AntAgonizer!
 
Space Lion said:
I, for one, am a proponent of exterminating every ant before they take over the world.
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Given a nearly 100% oxygen atmosphere they could actually grow to the size of a house pet!
 
I wonder if a butterfly will become the ultimate hacker symbol.
 
I feel this is a perfect example of the faults of blind obedience. The ants have a large, efficient society built around a strict caste system and here one creature finds a single exploit and it literally turns everything upside down.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
 
SuAside said:
Wooz said:
I wonder if a butterfly will become the ultimate hacker symbol.
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this is pretty awesome social engineering, yeah.
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No Captain Crunch's blind friends were awesome at social engineering! -...man, hope they don't read this.
 
Those caterpillars rule, man. Even over the Ant Queens, whose asses they kick. That's awesome.

Multidirectional said:
Space Lion said:
I, for one, am a proponent of exterminating every ant before they take over the world.
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They already did. Damn things are everywhere..
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I say we go further and extermine ALL insects. Damned little slimmy summabiches. HUMANITY IS SUPERIOR!
 
but some insects are cute, like bees and bumblebees. They have also queens which even fight against each other.

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I always wanted to be reborn as a butterfly.

Most people ask me "Why a butterfly?".

And I always respond that no one ever suspects the butterfly.
 
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