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10 Ideal Gifts for the Ant Obsessed

Eliza Leigh & HT — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:00:17 +0000

Whether you celebrate the holidays or not this is the perfect time to indulge your every whim and buy presents for others too. What better way to show someone you care than to give them an ant inspired gift? Here is a list of things any mutant ant would love or even one very ant obsessed human.

1-4. Etsy Ants

That is right just search for ants over on the cute, creative online bazar and you’ll find anything and everything ant themed. Jewelry, like this large glass ant cocktail ring or cute ant bracelet, would be great for old and young ant lovers alike. There are plenty of prints too, like this Vintage Dictionary Art Print or the adorable Knobby Knee Ant. If you do a Geekery search for ants that about sums it all up there is everything for everyone.

5-7. Movie Ants

HT & I posted a list of Ant Movies back in 2009 and they are worth checking out. Here are three movies covering different genres:

A Bug’s Life is a family classic everyone can enjoy. NOVA: Ants – Little Creatures Who Run the World is a documentary hosted by Edward O. Wilson. Them! is an old movie that will bug you out!

8-10. Toy Ants

Hexbug Ant, they’ll entertain you, your pets but hopefully not any children under the age of three. Ants In The Pants Spongebob Edition feel bad for the ants not the sponge. Fascinations AntWorks Illuminated Blue is great for your inner world ruler.

My top wish list item?

The cute ant bracelet. It is so, well, cute!

Now I’m off to place a few orders with HT’s card while she is taking a nap. Happy shopping!

9/2010 in Review:

Eliza Leigh & HT — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:00:48 +0000

This past month eL & I haven’t been online as much but here are a few lovely links for you to enjoy during your weekend reads.

Ants

Not in This Toad’s Backyard. Defeater of crazy yello ants.

Slackers and parasites can sometimes make the best partners. Not only an interesting look at the life of whistling-thorn acacia and the four types of ants that it interacts with throughout its life but interesting comments too.

Entertainment

Miyazaki Supervises Bandai’s Nausicaä Gunship Model (eL will dream of flying it if I buy it)

Composer Joe Hisaishi to Personally Conduct Asian Tour (I would cross oceans for that)

Photography

Julian Cohen

carl heindl

Fading Summer

Chinatown Herbs

Blog Posts

An UnExpected Song-part 2. Part of Just Chick Flicks part in Hollywood Fantasy Movie Draft. Read the first post here.

#FridayFlash: The Red Tram Read it.

No Playing Around Revisiting old haunts one photographer wonders where are all the people. Check out all the signs in the pictures.

8/2010 in Review: Ants & Entertainment

Eliza Leigh & HT — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 16:00:02 +0000

Ants

Big Think shares “Dr. Bugs” theory on how ants and humans are alike and how dirty humans still have so much to learn.

Yes it’s true. I may be the only mutant ant but there have been zombie ants longer than all of you humanoids. It’s a tragic but fascinating way to die just keep that fungi away from me!

Entertainment

Ant & Entertainment news: Could Ant-Man play a super-spy in his own movie?

From Ant-Man to Space Pirate fighting Pig-Man. Porco Rosso sequel could be in the works by Ghibli Studios or is it a case of mistranslation?

Favorite Blog Posts

Top 3 Eyelid Lifting Exercises

Because even though I’ll never have this problem HT isn’t getting or looking any younger.

19 handy things to do with a little leftover lemon

Initiative#26: Bus conversations and question marks

Makes you reflect less on the smelly and more of the social ascepts of public transportation. Just a heads up we survived our road trip to K-Town via Chinatown bus!

7 Ways to Kill a Mutant Ant- or Die Trying

Eliza Leigh & HT — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:00:00 +0000

Have a pesky mutant ant?

I may be a mutant ant but only my humanoid translator finds me pesky. Here are seven examples of her murderous intent, all of which failed miserably.

Squish it
My human tried to step on me but missed a step and tumbled down the stairs

Overdose on sugar
Ha ha, I ate her under the table.
Now she’s on insulin.

Flush down the toilet
The car keys that I took down with me caused a flood and my human slipped and hit her head while trying to fish them out.

Put bleach in drinking water
I switched our water

Grate it
She clumsily tried to make me a salad topping. The doctors were able to reattach her finger.

Build an ACME death trap
It didn’t work for Wile E. Coyote either.

Cook a healthy dinner
She ended up with E. Coli.

“Eliza Leigh, you’re exaggerating like usual. I only tried four of those.”

Let that be a lesson to all you ant killers and remember we out number you!

Photo credit: xardian of Flickr

Can Ants Smell?

Eliza Leigh & HT — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:00:00 +0000

Photo Credit: Myrmician on Flickr

Although ants do not have a nasal cavity like humans they have antennae. These are used as a means of communication through the use of chemical signals. In this way forager ants who scout out ahead of the colony are able to send a signal, by releasing pheromones, that the other ants can pick up that it’s time to eat.

Ant’s use smells not only to find food but to warn others of eminent danger, death or to distinguish which colony the ant is from.

So don’t be surprised the next time you have a horde of ants crash your picnic and notice that they are before most of your guests.

“This was very informative, Eliza. Just curious what prompted you to ask that question.”

Because I can smell your dinner burning. I suppose the real question should be Can Humans Cook?

Speaking of Insects have you checked out our Video of the Week?

Quote of the Week: The Princess Bride

Eliza Leigh & HT — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:00:39 +0000

Flickr photo taken by herbynow

Death cannot stop true love. All it can do is delay it for a while.

“Ahh, how sweet.”

I’m nauseous. You humans got it all wrong. Ants are ruled by a matriarch, keeping the male ants around till the Queen is ready to have more children. They eat, procreate, then die.

“Err, how sweet…”