Ants rasing butterflies

[Maphusio]

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.

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.

Lol, the queens got sent to their time-out corners.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29038257/

 

[Mord_Sith]

With this power, the butterflies will take over the world!

 

[Crni Vuk]

wow. Really awewsome small bit of information about ants.

 

[Lexx]

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]

I, for one, am a proponent of exterminating every ant before they take over the world.

 

[Multidirectional]

I, for one, am a proponent of exterminating every ant before they take over the world.

They already did. Damn things are everywhere..

 

[Maphusio]

I, for one, am a proponent of exterminating every ant before they take over the world.

Given a nearly 100% oxygen atmosphere they could actually grow to the size of a house pet!

 

[Wooz]

I wonder if a butterfly will become the ultimate hacker symbol.

 

[The Vault Dweller]

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]

I wonder if a butterfly will become the ultimate hacker symbol.

this is pretty awesome social engineering, yeah.

 

[Maphusio]

I wonder if a butterfly will become the ultimate hacker symbol.

this is pretty awesome social engineering, yeah.

No Captain Crunch's blind friends were awesome at social engineering! -...man, hope they don't read this.

 

[Slaughter Manslaught]

Those caterpillars rule, man. Even over the Ant Queens, whose asses they kick. That's awesome.

I, for one, am a proponent of exterminating every ant before they take over the world.

They already did. Damn things are everywhere..

I say we go further and extermine ALL insects. Damned little slimmy summabiches. HUMANITY IS SUPERIOR!

 

[Crni Vuk]

but some insects are cute, like bees and bumblebees. They have also queens which even fight against each other.

 

[SuAside]

Hornets are still TEH shit, though.

 

[Crni Vuk]

He just wants a hug! the Bug!

 

[generalissimofurioso]

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.