You know that movie "The Birds?"

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

That's going on above my head right now.

Huge swarms of seagulls because the flying ants hatched or something.

Guess I will be washing my car in the near future. Those things shit like nobody's business.

[Food Lady]

Really? I had no idea there were flying ants here. Maybe it will rain. We had a massive quick downpour while I was at work yesterday. It was a wall of water and my car is almost clean.

[Andara Bledin]

Pretty much all types of ants will produce queens with wings.

If it's a lean season, most offspring will be workers, which have no wings. But if it's a prosperous year, the larvae will receive more food, and some will receive enough attention to develop into full queens, and those will have wings.

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[wolfie]

Pretty much all types of ants will produce queens with wings.
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It's not just the queens that have wings, but the drones too. When you see the ants swarming out of the hill, it's easy to tell which are which:

- No wings: workers
- Winged, same size as workers: drones
- Winged, significantly larger than workers: queens

[Jester]

That movie gave me nightmares for years, because somehow I saw it on tv when I was about 3 or 4, and it freaked me the fuck out. And I had recurring nightmares for a long, long, long time, until I was about 12, and saw the movie again. And while it was still creepy, at 12 I was better able to process it, and it made more sense to me. And the nightmares ended immediately.

I know, not the subject of the thread. But it WAS the subject of the thread title, so I thought I'd chime in.

[Food Lady]

I've always liked that movie. It seems more possible than other horror scenarios.

[Jester]

That's because Hitchcock WAS a genius. His horror movies were far more plausible than most, which is what made them so damn scary and creepy.

[CrazedClerkthe2nd]

Oh dear Irv, did you piss off a witch doctor at the Swamp or something?

[Lachrymose]

You didn't let me answer the question first!

Yes