Wow wee, dead beatles and a mailing list
Well first off I have created a mailing list that you can subscribe to, its automatic and all that jazz so even the less technically minded of you should be able to do it. I has one of these "special people" help me test it out so it should be easy. To subscribe all you need to do is click here.
See, simple pimple. Please sign up to the mailing list it will make me ever so pleased....
/begging
Right, the update, Lets go....
I had a BBQ to christen the new house, so i had it all set up nice wee fire going the coals were starting to warm up nicely. I ran my mates lady friend to go get some orange juice for her gin. Upon my return the so called friend... pah.. had put the BBQ out. He claimed he was "trying to fix it", good job Sunshine, put the bloody thing out.
So Pissed off and hungry I sprayed some lighting fluid on the coals and lit it.
It turns out that 1/3 or a bottle of lighting fluid is a tad too much, this was pretty clear as a 7-8 foot column of flame shot out of the BBQ singeing a rather lovely tree and redecorating a wall of the once red hut a lovely black.
Whats this got to do with ants... Nothing really, but while we were waiting about i decided to go kill some things to feed to my ants. I managed to track down and kill 5 rain beetles 4 of which are living in my freezer. Click here for a larger image containing beetle guts and gore and stuff.... They must have been defective though, it didn't rain or nuffink... the weather stayed lovely all day. I'll need to start giving them live food, see how they deal with that.
Tweedlies
I have covered over the ant farm to make it dark and taken away this sock to encourage the ants to move home back into the dirt. Its taken them almost two days but they have moved back in and are digging away again. They have gone egg laying crazy, when i counted there were 060 Eggs (approx), 020 Larvae and 60 Pupa (up 50 odds from 2 weeks ago) . If they all hatch in the next few day and there is cannibalism or mining accidents that will give me 100+ ants.
See, simple pimple. Please sign up to the mailing list it will make me ever so pleased....
/begging
Right, the update, Lets go....
I had a BBQ to christen the new house, so i had it all set up nice wee fire going the coals were starting to warm up nicely. I ran my mates lady friend to go get some orange juice for her gin. Upon my return the so called friend... pah.. had put the BBQ out. He claimed he was "trying to fix it", good job Sunshine, put the bloody thing out.So Pissed off and hungry I sprayed some lighting fluid on the coals and lit it.
It turns out that 1/3 or a bottle of lighting fluid is a tad too much, this was pretty clear as a 7-8 foot column of flame shot out of the BBQ singeing a rather lovely tree and redecorating a wall of the once red hut a lovely black.
Whats this got to do with ants... Nothing really, but while we were waiting about i decided to go kill some things to feed to my ants. I managed to track down and kill 5 rain beetles 4 of which are living in my freezer. Click here for a larger image containing beetle guts and gore and stuff.... They must have been defective though, it didn't rain or nuffink... the weather stayed lovely all day. I'll need to start giving them live food, see how they deal with that.Tweedlies
I have covered over the ant farm to make it dark and taken away this sock to encourage the ants to move home back into the dirt. Its taken them almost two days but they have moved back in and are digging away again. They have gone egg laying crazy, when i counted there were 060 Eggs (approx), 020 Larvae and 60 Pupa (up 50 odds from 2 weeks ago) . If they all hatch in the next few day and there is cannibalism or mining accidents that will give me 100+ ants.
Larva
Pupa
image has been shrunk to fit
The best thing i found out this week is that the little black dots on the end of the pupa.... Well that's baby ant poo...... titter.
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6 Comments:
Oi! It's the 'special people' that make people like you look good :)
By Anonymous, at Thursday, June 23, 2005 10:25:11 AM
Is that supposed to be funny?
By Defender of blogs, at Wednesday, June 29, 2005 10:55:12 PM
C'mon Mr when we getting the next update?????
By Anonymous, at Friday, July 08, 2005 1:23:14 PM
hey, i really like what youve done, its pretty cool, and funny. i recently thought, 'i wonder if ive still got that ant world thing' after i got of the computer, and today i was looking for some hints on how to get it going well, well mines kinda broen and i have no money to fix it, the ants just run out of the SUPERSIZE breathing holes.. so that sucks, and ive decided to do a diy experiment with an old lemonade bottle and the remaining tube and magnifying box.... il tell you how it gores, and il check back soon.
By sam phillips (Reading, england), at Saturday, July 09, 2005 8:53:04 PM
Still waiting
By Anonymous, at Monday, July 18, 2005 8:49:25 PM
http://theantworld.blogspot.com/
By Anonymous, at Tuesday, August 30, 2005 1:32:33 PM
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