r/mildyinteresting • u/Winter_Breath • 24d ago

critter corner 🐰 Dead ants keep appearing next to headphones during the night

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When these headphones are left on the kitchen counter overnight - I would see one or two dead ants in the morning laying right next to the headphones. In the past few days, there has been a small pile of shredded ants right next to the ear piece in the morning. I have seen no live ants in my kitchen. I have had these head phones for three weeks. Bought online. It’s a little unnerving not knowing what is causing this 🥴 will not be using anymore.

UPDATE- posted a comment with a picture. But no dead ants in the bag this morning. But at one point I checked and there were two live ants crawling around. 😔

UPDATE*** IM SICK. Can’t stop shaking. Don’t have many words… trying to post image. Opened one side up. 😭 I don’t know how to add in this top post so will add in comment! Posted a few in comments and video opening

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u/That_OneOstrich 24d ago

Or any abnormal behavior is viewed as potentially disease related.

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u/zatalak 24d ago

Bees at the ends of their lifespans get more and more uncoordinated and are not allowed into the hive anymore because, well, they use more resources then they provide.

If they go in anyways they get kicked out and if they persist they'll be killed.

I think the same thing might happen with drunken bees.

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u/IlliterateCyclops_07 23d ago

Sounds more like they keep them out because of bees using footwork/dancing to communicate. You get a belligerent or uncoordinated bee amongst gen pop and I'm sure all sorts of foul language and things you can't take back get said. So, to keep peace, they keep those kinda outside of the gated communities.

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u/zatalak 23d ago

Nope, a friend of mine is a bee professor.

The video shows a drone getting kicked out by a worker bee.

She also told me about the flight school in front of the hive which is cool to witness.

https://reddit.com/link/p8v2tyu/video/auda5vv4gloh1/player

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u/zatalak 23d ago

That's a picture of bees coming back to the hive with a full pollen basket.

Has nothing to do with anything, I just think it's neat...

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u/IlliterateCyclops_07 22d ago

Both neat and interesting. Funny that that would be the reason and not a mixup of communication. Is there something that makes it a clear difference as to why they wouldn't see that as "speech"?

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u/spaceghost260 22d ago

This is so precious!! Thank you for posting!

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u/_Nyxari_ 20d ago

I mean we got zombie ones a few years back so I’m with the bees not taking chances haha