I love watching bugs in my house
By mor
@stringer321 (5643)
Kiryat Ata, Israel
August 19, 2016 3:04pm CST
We have small ants at the stairs way from the garden to the door. There are some small black ants 2.5 millimeters long.
When I slap flying mosquitoes, they get stunned and fall down on the stairs, then the ants come and kidnap them to the ant colony. The mosquitoes try to escape but they can't.
I also take a living cockroach and kick it to the wall, he gets upside down and can't get up, the ants start to gather around him, he kicks them to the sides but he can't run away, eventually the cockroach gets tired and the ant drag him slowly and it takes them hours to drag it to their colony.
Sometimes, I catch a fly, and throw on the spider's net. We got a spider called - daddy long legs- and it has a spider web in the corner between two walls. That is so cool to watch bugs in action.
I learn from the ants the power of communication and cooperation, they never get tired, have no fear, they call each other to help.
The spider has a very original way to catch bugs, it has a sticky web that the bugs get trapped at. Then he comes, makes fast movements with his legs, I'm not sure how it does that, but, it somehow wrap them with the web fibers and then suck them to death.
I can look at the bugs for a long time to see how they get into action.
Your take, mylotters, do you like watching bugs in action ? Do you experiment with them ? Maybe feed them or anything ?
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@HebrewGreekStudies (1646)
• Canada
18 Nov 17
Not bugs so much, but here we have lots of animals around, deer, skunks, raccoons, turkey, coyotees, sometimes I see them in the forest and watch them-sometimes they notice me back and I find they are curious about me too. When I was a child I would spend long times in the forest (giving dog sled rides and canoe trips was our family business), so, it's always been part of my life to watch them.
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@stringer321 (5643)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
19 Nov 17
Wow, that is so cool, your family had a business of taking travelers on a sled in the forest and let them have canoe trips ?
Bugs and animals, they are all operate according to the same instinct: the will to survive.
@HebrewGreekStudies (1646)
• Canada
19 Nov 17
@stringer321 yeh, we would take ppl out to the forest on dogsled, and give them their own sled to drive for a few hours (with us with them, of course). That was in winter. In the summer we would take ppl on canoe trips and camping in the wilderness for a few days up to a week-for most of my youth, the wilderness was my normal life (except for school).
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@stringer321 (5643)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
20 Nov 17
@HebrewGreekStudies Big like for that. Can you please tell me what happened that you don't do that anymore?
It sounds like you miss that era in your life.
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@stringer321 (5643)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
19 Nov 17
Yea, I noticed a lizard that ate a cockroach, that was so cool, the back of the cockroach was still outside of the mouth of the lizard.
Yesterday, I took off some ground from around the sewer check point. Cockroaches started to scatter, I took 2 of them to the ants colony, and now, the ants are less hostile, they enjoy their collection from the summer, but, when the cockroach was at their colony, they had no choice but to ambush it.
@velvet53 (22528)
• Palisade, Colorado
16 Aug 18
@stringer321 We sure can learn from them. They are mighty strong.
@stringer321 (5643)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
16 Aug 18
@velvet53 Cooperative, help each other, hard workers...
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@stringer321 (5643)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
15 Aug 18
They communicate with each other, telling where the food is, they can survive attacks(due to having a huge number), they can cooperate to take a big bug to their nest. We can learn from them a lot.
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@LeaPea2417 (36451)
• Toccoa, Georgia
19 Aug 16
I hate bugs and anytime I see them in the house, I stomp on them , scoop them up with a paper towel and throw them in the trash, or scoop them up with toilet paper and flush them down the toilet!
@stringer321 (5643)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
19 Aug 16
I also kill them, but, I kill them in a more interesting way, I give them to other bugs to kill and eat them.
What kind of bugs do you have in your house ?
Maybe you can have a dog to bite the bugs, it is so cool to see the dog handles a cockroach, it is so funny to see how the dog almost bites the cockroach but gets disgusted. Ha ha ha ha ha
@LeaPea2417 (36451)
• Toccoa, Georgia
19 Aug 16
@stringer321 We have cockroach's and very tiny sugar ants and occasional spiders. When we first moved here 25 years ago, we had a problem with smaller type scorpions, but not anymore of those, have I seen for a long time. Thank goodness.
@stringer321 (5643)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
19 Aug 16
@LeaPea2417 Aww, those tiny sugar ants are so small and I try to feed them to see what they like to eat so I can catch them later, but, they come again and again, they make holes in the glue between the tiles on the kitchen walls. Smart ants.
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@stringer321 (5643)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
20 Aug 16
You are right, I'm sorry for doing that.The bugs suffer because of me. I have decided to stop it.
I guess I felt it was all right because insects don't have feelings, they are like robots, but, they have their instincts to survive. I would like to have a computer program that simulates the bugs behavior and allow me to interfere.
What kind of insects do you like watching ? What do they do ?
@hazydaiscrazy (215)
• Delhi, India
20 Nov 17
I had Chikungunya once, because of mosquito. I hate Bugs, Mosquitoes and Ants, and Cockroaches. Nothing frightens me but, no they all are so unhygienic and are obviously disease-carriers.
