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Ants bury their dead.https://t.co/ldpSx52vbA
If you cover an ant in Oleic acid, it's nestmates will bury it alive.https://t.co/ysUb3sHsoQ https://t.co/uOiEZ0aJ8T
Not only are there ant zombies... Ants use one strain of fungus to fight off another.https://t.co/mmE6IWMWau
In fact, if an ant doesn't contribute to the colony, it doens't get 'the cure'.Good luck surviving in wilderness.https://t.co/3skG0QC5BS
in honey bees, certain flowers have learned to make chemicals that the bees use to castrate their hivemates. https://t.co/Ei3PSXsSqc
Now here's the real horror movie shit: a fruit bearing tree was killing off poor kids for 20 years. https://t.co/eyGJsqLGAd
And the horror movie "the happening" is based on a true story:https://t.co/3bMhCDF2TR
There's a deadly mushroom what grows commonly in California, but often confused for an edible one. "Death Caps"https://t.co/xfVMzhfcyT
There's a common seed that will literally paralyze you until you starve.https://t.co/OwlfwMEctG
There's a plant believed to catch and murder sheep.https://t.co/QgJEeJkYbO
The mushrooms on your pizza are predatory, and technically consume meat.https://t.co/qpomERfRw6
Death by gardening...https://t.co/0fTZofs8A9
There's an assassin bug that covers itself with ant corpses so it can blend in and drink them like a vampire.https://t.co/HkzLiSiKRp
"The giant water bug has one of the most painful bites by any insect in the world" & ate all my tadpoles :(https://t.co/1RaMdq5V7l
There's a fly who's maggot form sucks the juices from and then decapitates the heads off fire ants. Headless antmen?https://t.co/M2t8GzeBre
Right now there are probably spiders flying, like balloon, 3 miles over your head. 🕷️🕸️🎈https://t.co/rNliYnfE1T
Those flying spiders I was talking about? They've landed.https://t.co/ZGzLZpA5Yn