>> ^Hanns:
One musn't underestimate the ability of organisms to adapt to an environment, including finding other food sources once the fire ant population is more controlled.


My thoughts exactly. The guy seems so certain that we'll never see these flies ourselves, but when the fire ant population runs out, I'm sure they'll find something else to feed on. The only thing I could think of after watching this video was "Oh, great..."

One musn't underestimate the ability of organisms to adapt to an environment, including finding other food sources once the fire ant population is more controlled.

Brilliant.

Not an elephant, but a fire ant, likes his Kant and runs around on a plant.
He loves his crown of much renown and wears it all around our town.
He's made of stars and he's all ours.
Congratulations and salutations are required, 'cause many a sifter he has inspired.

I tip my hat to our queen or king and if text could, this would sing. ♫

I found the line "carefully guiding their queen to safety" rather funny when paired with the visual of one of the workers biting her face and pulling her up the hill.

>> ^Kevlar:
Oh, great. They're on their way here now.


Quick; send the marines! We'll fight them there so we don't have to fight them here.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'dumb, kid, fire, ants, dare, bad, idea, retarted' to 'dumb, kid, fire, ants, dare, bad, idea, retarded, stupid, darwin' - edited by nibiyabi

these are called horny toads. We used to have them all over the place in Texas until the fire ants got them all.

Agentine ants are bad too. Fire ants are worse IMO.


In reply to this comment by NordlichReiter:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaoh_ant

hey check this one out.

Its a bug mans worse nightmare, they have many queens! Like culling a hydra, for one head killed another two appear.

Wonder what kind of ants these are. I know fire ants to be rather voracious, I've come across many a small dead thing the little buggers were all over like this.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Walking-with-Hands-can-be-Painful
I could have been a darwin awards if the guy broke his neck.

http://www.videosift.com/video/Kid-Sticks-Face-In-Fire-Ant-Hole

Ok, I've been a really big, nerdy Indiana Jones' fan and trust me when I say, my expectations were really, really low. Despite all that, I found myself agreeing with everything that's written below. It's a rant/review by another Indy fan which I found via imdb boards. In a nutshell, if I have to sum the film up in one word: meh. And a weak 'meh' at that.

This is probably (most likely) (pretty sure), the last time we will ever be able to see our childhood hero Indiana Jones in a new adventure. After years of waiting and wishing; after all the excitement, we get "The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull". The last chance for a new adventure and this is the waste we recieve. Digital prairie dogs, digital monkeys, and digital fire ants. I feel like I watched a cross between Caddyshack, Jumanji, and Close Encounters. Nothing can begin to describe how retarded this movie is.

The only thing epic about this film is it's fail. EPIC FAIL!!! Somewhere, someplace, some fan boys are killing themselves. This rant is coming from somebody who was quick to desregard nay-sayers and detractors of this film before it's release.

From a die hard Indy fan who honestly set his expectations low for this film, nothing could even begin to compare to how low expectations need to be for this film to be enjoyed. George Lucas should be ashamed and Steven Speilberg now strikes me as a man past his prime making movies just to kill time because he has too much money and nothing better to do.

SPOILER ALERT!!
When the flying saucer takes off, if Jar Jar Binks showed up in the window waving good bye, I would have expected it. At least it would have been satisfying to know that the film was just a big joke to begin with.

Oh no! They're a danger to our native fire ant population, oh wait...

If you're going back to an old copy of XP be careful of how many times you install it, or have in the past. That's part of why I was away for a while, lost a dog in a bad way (fire ants) so needed time away, then I reinstalled XP to clean up the reg and hard drive and they seem to think it's been installed too many times so came up with a 'if you don't like it call this number and beg' notice.

Turns out after some time on the phone and letters with customer service that they don't even try to see if it's used for multiple IPs or system configurations, they just count the damned installs and assume pirate if it's over some number they don't care to share. For those of us who have had the software for a few years, since 2001 for me, and who aren't afraid to play with configurations since it's always easy enough to start over if we don't like the results, it's a little bonus to being a Microsoft customer which we weren't expecting.

So, I took the time to learn some about Linux, haven't been on a Microsoft system since. The Microsoft system is working after the phone call to get a reg number that works *this* time, but if I got a virus that was easier to deal with through a clean install I'd have to call and explain, if the reg gets clunky and the hard drive full of trash the same, and so on. It just offended me so fucking much that they DEMAND to be a part of my life that I decided they'd now be no part of my life, haven't used Windows or anything else Microsoft since and I don't plan to. Not as long as I live.

They are so worried someone might steal from them that they are willing to preemptively steal from us or force us to jump through hoops to use what we paid for, based on nothing more than half guesses and suspicion. It's not a company model I'll support. Count your installs if you plan to use it and have had it a while. They do.

Whatever gives me the ability to hear inside of my ear canal I want to rip out with a pair of tweezers covered in fire ants when I hear this song.

I, for one, welcome our new arachnid overlords. Maybe they'll finally take care of those pesky fire ants at Cape Canaveral.

It was the Kid Sticks Face in Fire Ant hole clip...