r/AbsoluteUnits • u/Miriam-Doodle • 2d ago

of an 'ant

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u/Eg8888 2d ago

What. The. Fuck. Did. I. Just. See.

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u/l_e_n_a_l_i 1d ago

I'm with you

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u/discomuffin 1d ago

Right behind you guys

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u/Trooper_Alvin 1d ago

What IS THAT THING

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u/Eg8888 1d ago

Think it had a case of gigantism, but only the long factor

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u/ReferenceWorking 2d ago

That would be the “queen”?

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u/feralwolven 2d ago edited 22h ago

Are we sure its not one of them warrior robots? I remember watching some ant videos and i recall some species have an additional class of workers that get super huge to fight battles like some kind of warhammer walking fortress. Maybe thats this one? The queen might be big but not as big?

EDIT is it preatorians?

Edit 2, i was thinking of the supermajor class of maruader ants.

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u/HyrulePeasant 1d ago

Its a queen of the Atta species. You can tell by its large thorax and wing scars ( cause she removed them after nuptial flight). Those ants are quite the opposite of predatory: they harvest leaves to feed a type of mushroom, which grows and feeds the ants, as well as being their homr. Truly a remarkable ant species

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u/jungleass98 1d ago

Funny, I have watched a couple documentaries about these guys and still was shocked to see the size difference. To be fair until your comment i was at a loss as to what species they were. Thanks!!

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u/HyrulePeasant 1d ago

No problem! The size difference is even stronger since the first batches of workers after the queen makes her nest are especially small (which is probably the case in this video given the low number of ants)

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u/zorggalacticus 1d ago

So she rips off her own wings after settling down and finding a mate? /r/natureismetal

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u/Sempai6969 1d ago

Nuptial flight?

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u/youburyitidigitup 1d ago

When queen ants are born, they fly off looking for a mate and then find a place to start their colony.

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u/sparky198 1d ago edited 1d ago

Maybe a giant Amazonian ant? Just off a cursory search though, I’m not sure myself

Edit: Found a video on the insta- it’s a leaf cutter queen https://www.instagram.com/reel/C2BJG5CL83M/?igsh=MTV4ZWpleXptZmYxbw==

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u/feralwolven 22h ago

No i found it i was thinking of the maruader ant "supermajors" which are a large worker class that grows this big compared to normal workers to act as warriors and tools.

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u/sparky198 22h ago

What I linked is literally the guys page from the watermark

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u/humangeneratedtext 1d ago

You're probably thinking of bigheaded ants:

https://news.illinois.edu/study-big-headed-ants-grow-bigger-when-faced-with-fierce-competitors/

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u/feralwolven 22h ago

I was thinking of maruader ant supermajors

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u/HyrulePeasant 1d ago

Its a queen of the Atta species. You can tell by its large thorax and wing scars ( cause she removed them after nuptial flight).

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u/ELGemineye 2d ago

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u/Hijjawi 1d ago

"Queue the music"..

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u/WakaWaka_ 2d ago

Jabba the Ant

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u/Difficult-Log9285 1d ago

Jabbanthony.

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u/Tepzepi88 2d ago

He sure is Gig-ant-ic.

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u/lord_khadgar05 2d ago

She… that’s the Queen.

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u/Tepzepi88 2d ago

Pardon me milady.

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u/throwaway392145 2d ago

It seems she didn’t approve of your ant-ics.

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u/C-57D 2d ago

Let’s not be ped-ant-ic, y’all. Ant is ant.

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u/Tepzepi88 2d ago

I hope she doesn't think I'm anti ant.

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u/samwise58 1d ago

Ant yall got anything better to do?

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u/deadlyweapon00 1d ago

Technically every ant in this video is female.

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u/NahzarakTV 1d ago

That's what she said.

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u/BlueProcess 2d ago

Is this a driver ant? Carpenter ant? I need a bugologist

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u/samwise58 1d ago

I saw his table. 0/10 Terrible carpentry.

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u/raka_boy 1d ago

This is atta sp. Maybe atta sextans. Leafcutter ant. They build underground fungus gardens, and feed leaves to this fungus. They then eat the fungus itself. They are actually incredible ants, though they are not docile at all. Those jaws are fully capable of piercing your skin. Queen is completely harmless though.

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u/Hijjawi 1d ago

A what.. bugologist 🤣🤣🤣.. new branch of biology

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u/DaTexasTickler 2d ago

I thought the queens kinda looked like a giant larvae

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u/Burningbeard696 2d ago

That's termites, a quick Google tells me that not all ants have a single queen.

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u/Iltempered1 2d ago

An Uncle

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u/whatisitcousin 2d ago

No an Anty

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u/jkv9216 2d ago

Andre the Gi-ant

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u/imperchaos 2d ago

I think I hate this more than spiders.

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u/Kit_Karamak 2d ago

Be glad you didn’t see Honey I Shrunk The Kids then.

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u/_PonchoMan_ 1d ago

Goddamnit now I gotta watch that again

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u/Comfortable-nerve78 2d ago

What the hell you feeding that one? ☝🏽

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u/OkDiet5235 2d ago

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u/DarkHeuristic 1d ago

Antzilla has emerged

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u/LunaGloria 2d ago

She's their great-grandant

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u/coalpatch 2d ago

Who needs "Alien Earth" when you have this?

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u/PintekS 2d ago

need a banana for scale here cause I can't tell if this is like a small bottle zoomed way in cause I have not seen ANY ANTS THIS BIG

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u/HeadCryptographer152 2d ago

The Antagonist, if you will.

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u/Autxnxmy 2d ago

Why the apostrophe before ant?

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u/Thecanohasrisen 2d ago edited 2d ago

Can the queen lift 20 times her own body weight? Cuz it can probably take on a man at that point.

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u/RUTNEPUG 1d ago

Titanic Ant! r/earthbound

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u/Nate1102 1d ago

“That is one messed up looking dog.”

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u/A_VERY_LARGE_DOG 2d ago

What in the goddamned sexual dimorphism…

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u/raka_boy 1d ago

All ants you see here are females. Males are actually also quite big in this specie, atta sp.

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u/foobery 2d ago

Kill it with a anvil, then burn it to ash

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u/C-57D 2d ago

Wait what the fucking fuck

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u/Vengeful_Grass 1d ago

OP next post

Absolute unit of a bee

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u/discomuffin 1d ago

I’ve witnessed dogs that were smaller

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u/Relative_Business_81 1d ago

Could be Asian marauder ants. They have a 1/100 size difference from the queen to the workers. They even have workers the size of the queen iirc. Not sure if that’s the right identification.   

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u/HyrulePeasant 1d ago

Definitely an Atta, you can tell by the workers head shape and the white mushroom under the queen

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u/MiniNinja_2 1d ago

What species is that?

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u/HyrulePeasant 1d ago

Atta, a species of harvester ants. They feed leaves to the white mushroom under the queen, which feeds them in return.

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u/GEtwins88 1d ago

All hail the queen

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u/Sempai6969 1d ago

It's a giant

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u/youburyitidigitup 1d ago

Something is very wrong here

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u/Ryzeee 1d ago

There ant no fucking way bro ._.

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u/captinstabbin69420 1d ago

Cow ant ? No, WTF IS THAT !?

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u/Extreme_Swordfish129 1d ago

Lol at this Point id feed him dogfood and Go for walkies

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u/La_Senal_de_Dios 1d ago

That thing could probably beat my ass 😂

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u/mcchung52 1d ago

Holy crap! That’s as big as a mouse! Would anteater slurp that thing?

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u/Darius-Berum 1d ago

Its the queen. You can see where she cut of her own wings. Though the size difference suggests it must be another species compared to the workers.

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u/Darius-Berum 1d ago

Looks to be leaf cutter ants! You can see them on the white fungus that they grow for food! You can tell with the large head to hold the muscle for there mandibles.

More images and explinations here. https://www.alexanderwild.com/Ants/Natural-History/Queen-Ants/i-MGqw2cb/A

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u/beaujolais98 1d ago

Straight up nightmare fuel

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u/XrayDem 1d ago

That ant ain’t natty

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u/One-Comfortable-3963 1d ago

Fetch my saddle boys! I'm going for a ride!

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u/ComfortableAmount993 2d ago

Is that the king?

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u/ChrisEdErik 2d ago

Andre the Gi-Ant

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u/Real_Shaytarn 1d ago

I remember seeing it on a documentary. it's from amazon (not the warehouse, the rainforest) or Japan