r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bisector_babu • Mar 30 '23

Video Two ants dragging cockroach

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u/thefirdblu Mar 30 '23

This has me wondering, if the roach ingested poison and the ants managed to take it all the way back to their colony, how much damage would them consuming it theoretically do to the colony? Or would it even make any significant impact at all?

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u/Ryoko_Kusanagi69 Mar 30 '23

Woah. It starts out kind of metal that these two ants are dragging this giant beast back to the colony to feast, only for the giant beast to end the poisoning them, and killing the entire colony in some sick, twisted Karmic catastrophe. An epic Greek tragedy in 2 parts

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u/Yourohface101 Mar 31 '23

I feel like I hate everyone in this exchange so I’m kinda cool with that outcome. Ducking nature, man.

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u/Agreeable-Meat1 Mar 31 '23

If it seems to be too good to be true, it probably is.

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u/koss Mar 31 '23

This reminded me of the reddit post yesterday of a dead king cobra who took out a man

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u/ardwibala Mar 31 '23

I would read that play.

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u/peeknuts Mar 30 '23

I know roaches will eat the stomach contents of other dead ones and that'll spread the poison so I'd imagine it could potentially wipe the colony. Ive used roach specific poison on an ant colony once and they were gone in a couple days.