The ants are deceased.

[Guest]

Remember the ants?

They're dead. All of 'em. Muah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

(And I'm NOT sorry.)


Here's a link to that thread from a few months ago.

The ants are marching

This is in reference to the dear, departed residents of my daughter's ant farm. And she is OK with their demise; I suppose the novelty of trying to feed hordes of angry insects wore off!

They didn't die off all at once; it was very gradual. The other ants buried the ones who died (which was very interesting) so you didn't even see ant bodies.

Their estimated life span was from a month to a year, so said the company, so I suppose two and a half months isn't so bad. They also said we could write them and get an ant refill.

I think we may just decline.

 

[Guest]

The other ants buried the ones who died (which was very interesting) so you didn't even see ant bodies.

Now you know they were Republican ants.

Perdita

 

[oggbashan]

Children's pets are like that. They either last forever (long enough for a child to grow up and leave home) or die to floods of tears after a few months or become BORING!

We gave a home to the school's African Land Snails for a summer holiday. We didn't want to but my wife was a teacher. All the teachers took home the unpopular animals.

We had three. One died. The other two produced 45 surviving offspring. Have you ever tried finding homes for 45 large snails? It isn't easy.

Our old garden has burial places for:

5 rabbits
2 guinea pigs
5 cats
6 hedgehogs including 4 killed in the road outside the house.
An empty grave for a cat found by the roadside. We couldn't find the owners for 3 days. Then we had an exhumation.

Live animals:
3 toads
2 hedgehogs
1 slowworm

Our new house has no burials yet but we have:
3 cats
1 pregnant hedgehog
2 toads

Our daughters have left home but one of the cats was brought to us when his owner moved into a 2nd storey flat in London.

The ants in our ant farm lasted about 3 weeks. They seemed to be fighting a civil war from the time they arrived.

Og

 

[Guest]

Re: Re: The ants are deceased.

Now you know they were Republican ants.

Perdita

 

[Guest]

Og -

A pregnant hedgehog? That's very amazing. How tame are those animals, anyway?

(and kudos to you for taking care of all those critters!)

 

[cloudy]

Og, I sympathize. We have a rather large animal cemetary ourselves. Try burying a horse.

 

[Guest]

Have you ever tried finding homes for 45 large snails? It isn't easy.

Did you try France?

Perdita

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Remember the ants?They're dead ... They also said we could write them and get an ant refill. I think we may just decline.

We gave a home to the school's African Land Snails for a summer holiday ... One died. The other two produced 45 surviving offspring. Have you ever tried finding homes for 45 large snails? It isn't easy ... Og

Dear Ms Sarahh,

You might now consider a leech farm.

A volume of stagnant water to fill your “three large rectangular ‘living’ areas,” and pupa to eventually inhabit these tanks, is all you require.

In addition to spurring you daughter’s interest in biology, she can also become involved in historical medical practises.

Your scientific daughter could train her adult leeches to devour the puss and abbesses which develop under the scabs that her siblings’ may be depended upon to produce over the coming years.

Or, are you not that committed to your daughter’s education.

 

[Guest]

Actually, I'm incredibly creeped out right now, thanks!


Ewwwww!

 

[Guest]

Actually, I'm incredibly creeped out right now, thanks!

Oh, but Sarahh, that's the joy of parenting.

Perdita

 

[dirtylover]

I love ants. Hehe. The most evolved creature on earth, the ant. There's scientific gold in them thar ants, I tell thee...

I tried having an ant farm, but they were too smart for me. They ended up farming me.

 

[Guest]

R.I.P. little ants.

Lou

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Actually, I'm incredibly creeped out right now, thanks!
Ewwwww!

Over which part?

My suggestion, or did you refer to cloudy burying a horse.

By the way, you missed out on the opportunity to try your hand at baking up some chocolate-covered ants.

I thought you liked chocolate!

 

[Guest]

Dear Ms Sarahh,

You might now consider a leech farm.

Your scientific daughter could train her adult leeches to devour the puss and abbesses which develop under the scabs that her siblings’ may be depended upon to produce over the coming years.

Or, are you not that committed to your daughter’s education.

THIS is the part that creeps me out!

(That, and the fact you keep referring to me as Ms. Sarahh - that is a bit too much like the sarahhh who continues to harangue this site with angry, half-witted, verbal barrages. Call me sweetsub, or sweetsarahh, or some such. Please?)

Ahem.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

THIS is the part that creeps me out!

(That, and the fact you keep referring to me as Ms. Sarahh - that is a bit too much like the sarahhh who continues to harangue this site with angry, half-witted, verbal barrages. Call me sweetsub, or sweetsarahh, or some such. Please?)

Ahem.

Makes sense, leeches........sarahhh, hard to distinguish the two.

 

[Guest]

Makes sense, leeches........sarahhh, hard to distinguish the two.

I was thinking of pus and abscesses, but yeah - leeches work, too!

 

[ABSTRUSE]

I was thinking of pus and abscesses, but yeah - leeches work, too!

LOL........Yuck!

I let my kids go outside and see ants, I tell them they're free range.

 

[SadieRose]

We're training the ants to eat the greenfly.

Now if we could persuade them to form a united front against the slugs, that would be a real step forward.

Sadie in the Garden with Diarmud Gavin! *she wishes!*

 

[Guest]

We're training the ants to eat the greenfly.

Now if we could persuade them to form a united front against the slugs, that would be a real step forward.

Sadie in the Garden with Diarmud Gavin! *she wishes!*

You need one of Og's baby hedgehogs. Not that he, personally, will have fathered them. Even if he did, I couldn't tell you about it on here. Talk about kinky bestiality, with an erotic horror twist!

Lou

 

[oggbashan]

You need one of Og's baby hedgehogs. Not that he, personally, will have fathered them.
Lou

I feel like a god-parent. After all we provided the hedgehog house and the bedding material for the mother.

We made the house cat-proof but the cats soon found out that you don't mess with hedgehogs. Angry hedgehogs will charge cats.

Now we'll have to watch out for the babies. They will get into anything. Have you ever tried persuading a hedgehog to leave a drainpipe?

Og

 

[Sabledrake]

They're dead. All of 'em. Muah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

(And I'm NOT sorry.)

Sarah, dear, I must give you full credit for lasting so long! Me, I would have microwaved the teeming, creeping little bastards wholesale in their farm months ago!

Sabledrake

 

[Guest]

LOL!

The ants were so hard to tolerate.

We had to open the farm to feed them and they always tried to attack us (luckily we only needed to add a bit of food once a week).

But water had to be added every other day! There are miniscule air holes at the tops of the little "housing units" so we thought we could use an eyedropper to squirt water inside. But it was too big. Finally we tried a plastic hypodermic needle from a printer ink cartridge refill kit - it was perfect.

BUT - we still had to feed the little bastards. AND watch them creepy crawl around.

Ick.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Re: Re: The ants are deceased.

I would have microwaved the teeming, creeping little bastards wholesale in their farm months ago!

Sabledrake

I hear they are very tasty deep fried...