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the real alien ant farm

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Remember playing with ant farms when you were a kid? You know, the type where you’d get sand all over the place and proceed to kill all of your insect friends within a matter of minutes as you tried to fill it up? Or when they’d all escape and start gnawing on your arm?…


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May 30th, 2009 comments stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

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the great insect war: ants versus phoridae

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Freaky news from Texas: apparently, fire ants are becoming a problem in the Lone Star State, so they’re importing phorid flies to deal with the problem. Pshaw, what can puny flies do against ants, you must be saying. Pshaw. Well pshaw on this report from UPI: “The phorid flies effectively turn fire ants into…


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May 13th, 2009 comments (1) stumble it! digg it! author: lambert v.

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led watch covered with ants

seahope ant led watch japan

If I told you to put a pile of fiery ants on your wrist every day, you’d probably say I was crazy. But with this entomological timepiece from Japan, you can cover your arm with ‘em without any risk of getting bitten.

The Seahope ANTS watch tells time using a bunch of the little…


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December 18th, 2008 comments (3) stumble it! digg it! author: technabob

just plain fun timepieces