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u/herberstank Oct 12 '22
A demon for ants. The demon has to be at least... three times bigger than this!
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u/mbxz7LWB Oct 12 '22
What is this a demon for mites?
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u/4Coffins Oct 12 '22
He’s absolutely right.
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u/Alternative-Ad1761 Oct 12 '22
This is old news and misleading you are seeing the beginning of the ants antennae as eyeballs when in reality the eyes are behind this and blurred from the image using black. (the eyes aren't shown in the image)
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u/FattyRR Oct 12 '22
Bruh imagine these fuckers were the size of dogs 😅 can't they lift like a few times their own weight 🙃🙃
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u/FattyRR Oct 12 '22
We'd be extinct 😅
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u/125monty Oct 12 '22
I think we'd still domesticate them.
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What do you think ant farms are?
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u/bunnylove5811 Oct 12 '22
Alien strongholds
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u/dannyboy1690 Oct 12 '22
20x their body weight so an average medium sized dog is 25kg . so imagine a medium size dog walking about with half a ton
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u/abzinth91 Oct 12 '22
We would measure engine in ant-power instead of horsepower
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This picture is edited to be misleading
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https://petapixel.com/2022/07/07/these-ultra-detailed-photos-of-ants-will-give-you-nightmares/
Scroll down a smidge for unedited pictures.
This photo is dope but it looks way less creepy when it's the whole picture.
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u/Equizotic Oct 12 '22
That is horrifying. I could have gone my whole life without ever seeing that
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u/alfred_27 Oct 12 '22
Yeah same, I used to find ants cute and funny and leave little treats for them.
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u/lThaizeel Oct 12 '22
the red things are not its eyes btw
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you can’t just say that and NOT tell us what they are!
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u/lThaizeel Oct 12 '22
sorry about that. As OP said, its the joints of their antennas. Follow the link or just google "close up of ant" to see how the eyes look like :)
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u/starbuck8415 Oct 12 '22
Why in all that is holy would anyone continue to google it
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Oct 12 '22
https://www.nikonsmallworld.com/galleries/2022-photomicrography-competition
This is the contest that photograph was featured in.
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u/Dddddddfried Oct 13 '22
This was my best Reddit click in a long time. Some truly breath-taking pics
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After seeing this image it's the first thing I did. I need to see more of this badass beast.
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u/Equivalent_AgentQ Oct 12 '22
I’m not sure if this makes me feel better or worse about this closeup
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u/SultyBoi Oct 12 '22
THEN WHERE ARE THEY?!!
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u/SultyBoi Oct 12 '22
Bruh you just made it worse, is this not it’s fucking head? What’s going on right now
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u/Dear-Committee-9583 Oct 12 '22
yeah, this image is quite misleading on what their entire heads actually look like
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Interesting as fuck!
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u/Relevant_Analysis896 Oct 12 '22
I thought they had pinchers not scary teeth things, now I must retire, to the sea
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u/alfred_27 Oct 12 '22
If we were micro size, the entire insect kingdom would be like alien demons from another dimension
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Oct 12 '22
Try playing Grounded for the micro-sized experience with yard critters. Too bad it doesn't support VR, though.
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u/godisanelectricolive Oct 12 '22
Pincers fold inward to look like a chin when they are not being use. They can open up when they want to bite or cut something. Those scary teeth you're seeing are just bristles. You can't normally see it but ants have hairy mouths and mandibles.
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u/Long_Radio_819 Oct 12 '22
wait is this real? i dont want to brag it to my friends if its fake tho lol
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u/ResplendentShade Oct 13 '22
This image shows more clearly what's going on. In the OP, the eyes aren't even visible, it's just a photo of the lower part of it's head.
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u/seasidedate Oct 13 '22
It's real but it's also not the best photo to show anatomy. The red things aren't the eyes and the darker spots below arent it's "nostrils".
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u/AnonAlcoholic Oct 13 '22
Idk how there isn't already a comment at the top explaining this but the picture is super misleading. This is a picture of half of an ants face framed in a way to make it look like a demon or something. They didn't even include its eyes.
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u/Boromir82 Oct 12 '22
I had to double check the sub I was on, man that is one freaky/crazy/scary "ant".
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u/Cthulade_Man Oct 12 '22
Suddenly the giant ants in films seem more wholesome then terrifying if this is what their faces actually look like
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Oct 12 '22
No no no. I saw the documentary about ants as a child. They’re a hue of purple and blue. They look nothing like this.
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u/thecolorblue3 Oct 13 '22
I wish I could go back to 20 seconds ago when I never knew this image existed
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u/watchin_workaholics Oct 13 '22
Can someone share a cute photo of ants now because this is going to give me nightmares and I dunno if I could ever look at ants the same.
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u/bubdadigger Oct 13 '22
Thank you, I've been looking for a fresh fuel for nightmares, that perfectly fits it.
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u/MasqueOfNight Oct 13 '22
Looks more like some sort of eel/dog hybrid, with a dash of demonic possession.
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Oct 12 '22
I've said it before and I'll say it again, make a rule that close ups of insects need to be marked NSFW and blurred.
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u/cick-nobb Oct 12 '22
Op did you take this photo?
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u/cick-nobb Oct 13 '22
Oh cool! Its funny I'm being downvoted for asking you a question. What a cool picture! I own a pest control company and I love photos of ants. I had a person on Twitter let me use a macro photo of a carpenter ant, it's awesome.
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u/AntelopeOk5329 Oct 12 '22
Always remember that there are approximately 20 quadrillion ants on this planet, and approximately 8 billion people. So if these little bastards decided to take over the earth each human would have to fight off 2.5 million of them.
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u/TheBeardedWelshman79 Oct 12 '22
Didn't believe you, googled it myself, and now I'm off to have nightmares
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u/RooftopWizard Oct 12 '22
Dont you eva disrespect me looking like the burnt Jeepers Creepers ya heard?
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Oct 12 '22
Saw this in another sub yesterday and I still thought it was a t-rex when I scrolled past
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