I found a pile of ant heads near my pool . There were only heads, no bodies. What did it? Is it normal?
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fireants probably killed them....or you have an anteater on the loose....although i dont know why either one would leave the heads
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There is not really a thing like surface only ants, but there are ants which do mainly foraging. \nIf you just sweep up a bunch of ants around a nest and put them in your ant farm I'd expect them to behave exactly like you describe. They are away from their mom and feel lonely and depressed...\nAnyway, doesn't sound like you have an ant queen and brood in your nest. You also don't say anything about feeding them and giving them water. You should indeed read up on the poor critters before you mistreat them. They may be small animals, but they still are animals and need proper care. And ants need their own and complete colony to behave normally - and even then, ants underground don't have a reputation to uphold, they can be fairly lazy.
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Where is it that you live?? Maybe loss of habitat in your area has caused them to leave for better places where more food can be found....if there was a swamp in your area that was filled in it could cause the insect population to drop and since insects are thier food of choice maybe there isnt enough anymore. I dont think that any type of animal can be banned from living where it wants but I am fairly certain that human interference is probably what caused them to leave the area in which you live.
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I've never heard that, but small seeds are moved about by ants, so it is possible.
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O look who it is the guy who has the fetish with Ants and being locked in his girlfriends room....your weird you should use all this time you have asking stupid questions doing something productive instead. Who cares if your an ant! honestly after reading two of your ant questions i would step on you and squish your ant body so you would stop asking these questions! Thank you!
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By mistake in a pool but it probably wasn't too much....\n\nWhy? Are you sick?\n\n:)
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Don't worry about it, Howard Hughes.. You have millions upon millions of microrganisms crawling all over your body right now. As you're reading this. A few dust mites aren't gonna kill ya..
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I've swum after adding muriatic acid to my pool.  Your eyes might sting a little.  I'd wait till 6-12 hours for worry free results
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Little Black Ant\n\nLittle Black ants are very small and black, two nodes, with workers all one size, similar to the Pharaoh Ant. Found throughout the U.S., but most often in the east. One of the more common house-infesting ants, Little Black Ants nest in wall voids and under carpets. May build outdoor colonies under rocks, logs, debris and forage to indoor food sources along baseboards and carpet edges. Likes sweets, fats, oils.
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Doing mosquito control, I end up spending quite a bit of time in ditches along freeways.  I've seen some weird stuff.\n\nI find a lot of hubcaps, but that's not all that surprising.  Once I found a whole set of four hubcaps though, two on each side of the freeway, and all about a quarter-mile apart from each other.  I always wondered how exactly that happened.\n\nThere seems to be a lot of clothing lost on the side of the freeway.  Individual kid's shoes seem to be the most common.  One time I found a pair of very... um... used underwear.  That was gross.\n\nMattresses, old appliances and furniture are also common.  Once there was a sofa and loveseat combo that looked like they were perfectly fine - no visible damage or wear and tear.  It had rained the night before, and the cushions were completely and totally soaked though, so I left them there.  They disappeared before they dried out.\n\nDead critters are pretty common too.  Deer, coyotes, cats and porcupines are the main ones.  Once I found the carcass of a black bear - innards, and skin, but no meat or bones.  Another time I found a whole set of bones of a juvenile black bear (I still have the skull).  There was also a time I found a giant pile of slabs and slabs of animal fat.  Man, that smelled gross.  Not as gross as the dead skunk I found and watched decompose over the course of the month.  The day it literally exploded with maggots was the worst.  \n\nOther unusual dead critter finds have included a Slurpee cup filled with dozens of drowned shrews, a set of deer ribs hung in a tree, and another site with dozens of stripped and headless deer carcasses.  The most disturbing was a fully intact deer fetus.  The mother had been hit by a car and the fetus must have been ripped out and it was thrown a dozen yards from where the mother's body was.\n\nOne of the coolest things was a long-tailed weasel that didn't even realize I was there.  He was hopping and darting all around, about a foot away from me until he finally noticed my boot, came up to take a sniff, looked puzzled, and slowly looked up.  When he realized he was right next to a person he took off like a shot!
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Actually, ants have been shown to suffer no ill effects when dropped from ANY height. Their terminal velocity is not sufficient for them to sustain injury.
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a tick..like a little bug that digs itslef into the skin of a host?\nwell you will see its hind end sticking out of your skin....then if you see that, get some tweezers or burn it out!!\n\ni always thought they went in around the hair though...\nim curious to know if this is a tick like im thinking now..\n\nwill you please update your quesiton when you find out?
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I don't think the kind of fish matters-- it was a decaying bag of biology and it was stewing with all kinds of bateria that was helping it decompose.  I think it's the bacteria that was in the dead fish and not the fish itself.  I'd go get a tetnus shot and itching is a sign of infection, so....
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Dead-ant, dead-ant, dead-ant dead-ant dead-ant dead-ant dead-ant
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Sometimes I think about that while swimming in a pool. Creepy, even though I know there shouldn't be a problem. Also, there probably aren't any sharks in Lake Erie.
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Oooh...sounds like ants to me.
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It seems that Opening with a question like this Can cause more response than you would be able to deal with .I would Worm my way out if I was you.\n\nNot sure on this I know a snail can\nI was wondering if an ant could get tics