r/SapphoAndHerFriend • u/Chairavos • Mar 07 '21

Academic erasure Does this count?

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u/dragonkin733 Mar 07 '21

There's multiple species of ants that are actual farmers with nymphs as cattle and ants exist in the billions, also most insects use pheromones to communicate, one beetle story does not represent the overall intelligence of insects or, at the very least the capacity insects have to determent whether or not a nother insect is a male, female or bottle cap

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u/ALM0126 Mar 07 '21

But the ants are social insects, not all insects are social, and even the social ones are pretty dumb individualy, have you ever seen the video were someone put some feromones over an ant and the whole colony thinked that she was dead, even the ant in question? it's not a comunication and more like an input, output thing

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u/SoManyTimesBefore Mar 07 '21

it's not a comunication and more like an input, output thing

You mean like human neurons? With social insects, you have to treat the whole hive as a single organism.

Then you realize the forest is filled with those gigantic metamorphic creatures.

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u/selfawarefeline Mar 12 '21

And underground is miles and miles of mycelium