ashestoashesjc:

tequila-tekaylah:

trillow:

do you think ants get confused when they accidentally get on buses and end up really far away

Fun fact: if ants enter the territory of another colony, the other colony will smell that they’re different and rip them to pieces.

unless that colony happens to belong to the vast, interconnected megacolony of argentine ants that extends across the americas, europe, and japan; the members of which will interact with and accept ants from the other branches far more readily than ants from other supercolonies (unless unless they’re from one of the smaller subunits of the megacolony, in which case they might react aggressively which is super interesting) 

“But whenever ants from the main European and Californian super-colonies and those from the largest colony in Japan came into contact, they acted as if they were old friends.

These ants rubbed antennae with one another and never became aggressive or tried to avoid one another.“ 

so if they wind up somewhere strange, maybe they’ll run into a cousin