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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 16, 2014 - 02:32pm PT
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If so, I think I'm going to change my name to SOUL SLAYER
I just wiped out about a million of those little suckers. (a mere pittance, given the estimated world ant population of 10,000 trillion).
There goes another one !
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Tvash
climber
Seattle
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Sep 16, 2014 - 02:39pm PT
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I'm going genocidal on a yellow jacket's nest this very afternoon.
No judgement. No hate. Just business.
I heart outdoor BBQs.
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Sep 16, 2014 - 02:44pm PT
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Of course they have a soul.
The Hague will be contacting you soon.
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Tvash
climber
Seattle
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Sep 16, 2014 - 02:51pm PT
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They'll certainly have a Hell come 5:00 today.
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Sam E
Boulder climber
Malibu
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Sep 17, 2014 - 07:16am PT
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I think they may have a collective soul. At least that's what I tell myself when they violate our treaty and I kill them.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Sep 17, 2014 - 07:23am PT
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They quite possibly do which would make them different from humans.
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PhilG
Trad climber
The Circuit, Tonasket WA
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Sep 17, 2014 - 07:38am PT
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The Hopi's believed that the ants took humans underground to save them from cataclysmic events.
Like humans, if someone believes they have a soul than I guess they do.
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SicMic
climber
across the street from Marshall
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Sep 17, 2014 - 07:40am PT
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My aunt does not have a soul.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 17, 2014 - 07:55am PT
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I'm all about endemic species which is why I'm down on the aggressive
Peronist Argentines which have totally colonized the whole West Coast.
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 17, 2014 - 08:24am PT
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PETA just sent me a letter stating that if I don't cease and desist the massacre they are going to protest in front of my house.
The CBD is filing a lawsuit trying to close nearby Malibu Creek to climbing in order to protect the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile).
It seems there are less than 735,000,000,000 of these creatures left roaming this SoCal climbing area.
They are concerned that climbers are peeing in ant holes for sport and wiping out hundreds of colonies (over the last 65 years).
http://www.askpedia.com/q/37F10/peeing_on_an_ant_hill_will_that_kill_them
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MH2
climber
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Sep 17, 2014 - 08:27am PT
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That would be quite a few souls if all those zeros mean something.
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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Sep 17, 2014 - 10:50am PT
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"ants crawl my drunken arms"
C.Bukowski.
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Barbarian
climber
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Sep 17, 2014 - 12:26pm PT
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I don't know if ants have a soul, but you can play it safe by being kind to them
Too late...they should have stayed outside. The cat stays inside, so the lines are clear. When they came inside to eat the cat's food, he became very upset. They died. Sucks to be them...or at least it used to.
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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Sep 17, 2014 - 12:40pm PT
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They are concerned that climbers are peeing in ant holes for sport and wiping out hundreds of colonies (over the last 65 years).
Does that make them pissants?
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son of stan
Boulder climber
San Jose CA
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Sep 17, 2014 - 12:49pm PT
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Interesting question. Anyone know of a link to buy
Soul Detector Kits? Thought they would be sold near
the pregnancy test kits but no luck.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Sep 17, 2014 - 01:05pm PT
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SB, since I always try to err on the side of swift justice when dealing
with six-legged hegemonists I'm OK, aren't I?
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TrundleBum
Trad climber
Las Vegas
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Sep 17, 2014 - 01:37pm PT
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Begs the question:
"Are you a Chinese or Tibetan Buddhist?"
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Sep 17, 2014 - 01:44pm PT
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All life is karmic.
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Tvash
climber
Seattle
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Sep 17, 2014 - 01:49pm PT
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I've seen a column of army ants on the move in Costa Rica.
The first thing you perceive is the strong smell of formic acid in the air. Then the sound - the gentle shush of a million ants not so gently marauding their way through fallen leaves and ground cover.
The column was about a meter wide and god knows how long. Solid ants - it undulated like a jittery fluid, flowing across the forest floor at about a foot a minute.
The front of the column was utter pandemonium in miniature - a panicked exodus of leaping arthropods (think a beetle can't show fear?), many of them being picked off by an opportunistic cloud of hovering wasps and flies. Those that stumbled were immediately torn apart by the column.
It was one of the most stunning wildlife experiences I've ever witnessed.
Be very glad we're not that small.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Sep 17, 2014 - 03:27pm PT
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If so, then I'm in trouble when I die
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Sep 17, 2014 - 03:38pm PT
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Feel free to kill some crazy ants
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-rise-of-the-crazy-ants/
My brother was telling me about crazy ants, they invaded the Gulf Coast, came in on freight through the port. When you exterminate them you practically have to shovel piles of them so thick it looks like dirt.
They love electricity and create havoc with electrical equipment
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Sep 17, 2014 - 04:39pm PT
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Semi-related, how about black widows? I caught one in a jar the other day, then when the weather was nice and hot I dropped her into my friendly driveway harvester ant nest. Quite the show, in the 10 year old boy/nature documentary way.
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