Winged ants

[wahoyaho]

One just bit me on the back of my knee so I picked it up with a pencil, put it on the desk, and severed it from the bottom 1/3 of its body, don't know what that thing is called. So I was just wondering, are these any different from the wingless ones I usually see around my desk?

 

[dabuddha]

The winged ants have wings while the wingless ones don't

 

[wahoyaho]

Oh really, I thought it was the other way around :x

 

[BurnItDwn]

I thought the winged ants had a penis and the wingless ones had a vagina?

 

[Arkitech]

the winged ones can fly



could'nt resist

 

[BlackTigers]

Originally posted by: Arkitech
the winged ones can fly



could'nt resist

Yup, and the non-winged ones do not.

 

[skace]

The winged ones are the ones that lay eggs in your eye sockets.

 

[Adam8281]

The winged ones taste better.

 

[soccerballtux]

umm termites dude.

 

[OdiN]

The winged ones are deadly. Once bitten by one, you can expect to die slowly and painfully over the course of the next few weeks.

If you get a shot from the ER within 5 hours, you're okay. Within 24 hours and you've got a 50/50 chance.

I thought everyone knew this?

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: OdiN
The winged ones are deadly. Once bitten by one, you can expect to die slowly and painfully over the course of the next few weeks.

If you get a shot from the ER within 5 hours, you're okay. Within 24 hours and you've got a 50/50 chance.

I thought everyone knew this?

Everyone that didn't is dead.

 

[jiffer]

Originally posted by: soccerballtux
umm termites dude.

That's a possibility. Some types of termites look like winged ants. Other types don't look quite like ants.

It could also be a male carpenter ant. There are four classes of carpenter ant: queen, winged male, major worker, and minor worker. Some people confuse them with termites.

 

[NaOH]

the ants that are able to mate

i remember this from SimAnts

 

[udneekgnim]

that ant was just sexing you up...

 

[dud]

The winged ants are the future queen ant and the male (soon to die after mating). The queen only keeps her wings for a very short time (to fly away from the nest, mate and then to start her own).

I've never heard of these ants biting anyone before as their too busy trying to get it done (if you know what I mean). Is there any chance that you were bitten by a small wasp or even a biting fly (like a horsefly)?

 

[jiffer]

Originally posted by: dud
I've never heard of these ants biting anyone before...

Well, if you've never heard of it happening before, then I'm sure it never has.

 

[AmpedSilence]

Originally posted by: NaOH
the ants that are able to mate

i remember this from SimAnts

haha, this is the first thing I thought of also. The winged ones were able to go to new spots, the wingless ones couldn't.

 

[CPA]

lol, it bites you and then you execute it guillatine style, lol....

 

[jiffer]

Actually, ants don't bite; they sting. They will bite you in order to hold on to you, and then they will stick their stinger into your skin and inject their venom. (They do it repeatedly, so you can get more than one sting from a single ant.) Their venom contains formic acid and allergens that cause local irritation and in some cases a severe allergic reaction.

I'm a little bit curious. If you think that ants inject their venom with a bite, how do you think that works?

 

[JTsyo]

Thought the winged ones were queens. I had one set up a nest in my electric shaver. It went in through the air vents. It took 2 days of washing it out to get them all out. I put the shaver in a ziplock and in the freezer just to be sure.