If I Only Had a Brain…
In Texas, there is an ant problem. Let’s face it, everywhere there is an ant problem, but this one seems particularly troublesome. So, they searched around for a solution and found that this particular type of ant has a natural enemy and that enemy is a parasite that lays its eggs on the ant and then somehow the larvae hatch inside and seek nourishment.
Take a deep breath at this point if you are squeamish, but this is just too good for me to pass up as you will shortly see.
Anyway, the larvae feed on the ant’s brain. They consume the whole thing. Gross, right? Well, it gets better!
The ant at this point, totally brainless, starts wandering around aimlessly. It wanders without a brain for two weeks! Two weeks!
Then, its head falls off. I am assuming the body just gets pissed and gives up at that point.
Well, here is what is amazing about this story. One would think this only applies to ants. However, after reading what behavior they exhibit after losing their brains, I have been around an individual behaving in the same manner. For about two weeks…
I am waiting for his head to fall off.
SFGate article on this phenomenon.
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BRILLIANT! I am waiting for that same ants head to fall off. The question is, will it?
I can make guesses until the ants go marching 2 by 2 as to who you’re referring to and still be off-base, so I’ll leave that to those in the know!
And, to think that this ISN’T an urban legend because everything that appears on this blog is triple-verified and cross your heart-sealed.
What this beautifully shows is that the heart is unequivocally the driving force of life!
The heart is the boss!
Manda, you know who it is. We both wait…
Marianna, you are right that you could never know who it is. And, the heart rules!!!
So, now I know who is that suspicious looking character who has been following me around the last fortnight or so. Sorry Conrad, I am not about to oblige. I ate the parasite off!
Manda, I have been noticing only one shadow!
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I have a 2 1/2 foot diameter ant hill close behind our house. I water it because ant hills not sand, aren’t indigenous to this area. (They use small pine needles.) When dry I water & hundreds appear swarming over top. My pets, since i don’t have a dog or cat.
This is grosser than a brainless ant. Somewhere in mid-east or far-east they have LIVE monkeys under the table with a hole cut in table & people eat the brains.
These suckers are as bad as the tarantula wasps in Nevada that cause the people from the Carolina’s (according to a columnist in our newspaper) to do the “Hep me Jesus dance.” I don’t think I’d care for either one because they would probably carry my spider traps away and I would have to stay out of the basement, lol. Then a tornado would get me for sure. This one would make a good (or bad) horror movie.
Corky