Hey! Stop screwing my lunch!

[skreidle]

Video: Ants mate with half-eaten, dying queen | MSNBC -- [A more macabre video from the insect kingdom would be hard to find.]
We can't all be picky about our mates, and ants even less so. A new video taken by Adrián Skippy Purkart, a wildlife photographer from Slovakia, shows the ants swarming around repeatedly mating with their dying queen as a

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[kincajou]

Ant queen doesn't wear a crown, so she don't need her head anymore.

[ayumidah]

Well, geez. That's a great thing to read just before bed.

[slantiness]

^this

[skittlewolf]

"They are wasting time, but the vast majority of male ants die without mating at all, so they aren't wasting more time than average."

aka gotta bone what they can otherwise they won't get any! Dead is good too!

[ashen_key]

...this is probably a lost cause, but any chance of putting, say, most of this under a cut? Because JFC, that's disturbing and wrong and probably triggery.

[i_r_lee]

what could this probably trigger?

[eruditeviking]

Upchuck?

Personally, I don't see what could be trigger worthy about this either. Of course I'll happily point out that it's not really that disturbing and certainly not "wrong" (stop anthropomorphizing and placing human scruples on animals). Then again, I though it was cool to watch Assassin Bugs mating during a picnic.

[drhoz]

alates ( queens and drones ) launch from the old nest, mate, and fly off to start a new nest. Most of them will die, of course.

[hannahsarah]

You want the spider to die of starvation? They have a pretty important part in the ecosystem too. Everything's gotta eat something, sooner or later.

[kharmii]

You have a point...something has to eat ants or else THE WHOLE WORLD would be covered with nothing but ants! D-:

ETA: Why did the mods delete my comments?