8 comments

  • technothrasher 3 hours ago
    Not that I'd ever be in the market for illegal wildlife, I find the whole trade abhorrent, but $220 for a pregnant queen of an exotic ant species that would spawn an entire colony and live for years doesn't seem at all expensive.
    • Neywiny 42 minutes ago
      You're about to be the next Walter White. "I could never. Oh wait they sell for how much? And I just put them in what, dirt or something? Hmmmm...."
  • jareklupinski 30 minutes ago
    "The foreigners never came to the fields themselves - they would wait in town, in a guest house or a car, and we would bring the ants to them packed in small tubes or syringes they supplied us with."

    i never got the appeal of having someone else do the only interesting part of anything for you

    • NoToP 21 minutes ago
      But I've saved so much time since I started using mturk to compose all my hn comments. I barely even need to read it anymore!
  • grimgrin 56 minutes ago
    I've had a bugshop bookmark for a while. Never to buy, merely curious. I like bugs

    https://bugsincyberspace.com/about/

    glad to say search shows no "queen" results, though idk if that means anything

  • analog31 7 minutes ago
  • cute_boi 17 minutes ago
    "pet craze for keeping ants in transparent enclosures designed to observe the insects as they busily build a colony."

    I don’t understand why people would build an entire industry around insect trafficking just to watch ants for a few days before getting bored of them.

  • black_13 4 hours ago
    [dead]
  • joserohan 2 hours ago
    Wow this is wild!