ants are fascinating

lavoll: Indeed.

Hope they don't OD on whatever it's bringing home to the nest.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

It's viagra for the queen's concubines.

Dag: HA!

persephone: OD?

Aren't drones males?

MarineGunrock: Good question. See http://p211.ezboard.com/fantfarmtheantfarmsmessageboard.showMessage?topicID=5724.topic ...

Wow...when pharmaceutical companies decided to start marketing directly to consumers, they really wanted to make sure all of their bases were covered, eh?

I really do wonder if an ant colony (collectively, by feeding the developing larvae) may develop a physiological addiction to certain drugs and then raid normal human habitat to get their fix.

And so the vicious cycle begins...

That looks like ant #142 from my ant farm! She stole my freakin' pills!

so did it make it back?

Chaucer: Who knows. Worker ants are females BTW.

Big deal. The other day I picked up a whole bottle of pills.

MachineGunrock: From my forum, "Drone is not a myrmecological term, which is to say it has no formal use in regard to ants. As an entomological term the word refers only to the males of honeybees. In non-entomological language as applied to humans, drone refers to the concept of a mindless, duty-bound laborer, and there is a military use of the term as an unpiloted spy plane. Neither has anything to do with the apiarist's meaning of the word, though the first is somewhat similar to the way workers in a social insect colony are viewed. Either way, you won't see the word drone used in any scientific, or even in well-written popular writing on ants."

That must be one MASSIVE headache!