Ants can smell death, but can they see him?

I like ants, and not just because they know how to bite Jer edited and confidential material for the sake of the children. I like ants because they possess extra special powers to smell Death. They can't see Mr. Death, but they can smell his stank when he visits a single female in the horde. Yes, I did say female. All ant workers are females. So much for nature supporting ant feminism. Animals are so sexist. Always, with their mating dances and eating of males heads during copulation. I mean, how are they supposed to evolve into higher life forms if they don't stop eating their young. Geez, someone send them a TPS report.

Even though they are lower on the food chain, it takes us smarter, more evolved humans to spend money to study them. Yeah, us.

According to a study, by Live Science, "When an ant dies, its nestmates quickly pack it off. That way, the risk to the colony of infection is reduced." Ant gangrene is really nasty in an underground, moist hole.

"'It's because the dead ant no longer smells like a living ant that it gets carried to the graveyard, not because its body releases new, unique chemicals after death,' said study team member Dong-Hwan Choe, a graduate student at University of California, Riverside."

Before you wonder why I posted a random, legit science story here on my blog. Here comes the hilarity. Apparently, this whole study of ant necrophoresis, is so that we can learn how to better kill them.

"When an ant exposed to an insecticide dies in the nest, other ants carry its body around, with the insecticide transferring easily from the corpse to healthy ants." This is why ants can't evolve. We are synthesizing death stank and spreading it like the black plague across the ant kingdoms of the world. Now that is science.

Source: MSNBC.com

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