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<blockquote data-quote="Daalbar" data-source="post: 2883158" data-attributes="member: 10746"><p>If you want to do some creative modification to the ants as described in the rules, there are literally thousands of species to play with... for instance, the bulldog ant -- fast, active, with good vision, small colonies but each individual has a stinger with paralyzing venom and large clasping mandible that they use to lock onto prey with and drag back to the colony (can you say grapple rules?)</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.ento.csiro.au/ecowatch/Primary/hymenoptera/pages/bulldog.htm" target="_blank">http://www.ento.csiro.au/ecowatch/Primary/hymenoptera/pages/bulldog.htm</a></p><p></p><p>Or have you ever seen how army ants subdue creatures much larger than themselves? Individuals grab hold to each extremity and stretch them out while others close in to bite and dismember. Grappling rules again.</p><p></p><p>Or maybe you'd like to try out a giant species of odontomachus ("trap-jaw" ants). These ants carry their mandibles open at a 180 degree angle and run up to bump a prey item with trigger-hairs near the mouth which causes the scyth-like mandibles to snap shut with great force. In some of these species, the mandibles are like shears. I saw a species from southeast asia in a lab several years ago -- the workers would run at a cricket, then you'd hear an audible "snap" and then the cricket would be knocked back in one direction while the ant itself flew back in the other and one of the crickets' legs would be lying on the ground.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.myrmecos.net/ants/odontomachus.html" target="_blank">http://www.myrmecos.net/ants/odontomachus.html</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daalbar, post: 2883158, member: 10746"] If you want to do some creative modification to the ants as described in the rules, there are literally thousands of species to play with... for instance, the bulldog ant -- fast, active, with good vision, small colonies but each individual has a stinger with paralyzing venom and large clasping mandible that they use to lock onto prey with and drag back to the colony (can you say grapple rules?) [url]http://www.ento.csiro.au/ecowatch/Primary/hymenoptera/pages/bulldog.htm[/url] Or have you ever seen how army ants subdue creatures much larger than themselves? Individuals grab hold to each extremity and stretch them out while others close in to bite and dismember. Grappling rules again. Or maybe you'd like to try out a giant species of odontomachus ("trap-jaw" ants). These ants carry their mandibles open at a 180 degree angle and run up to bump a prey item with trigger-hairs near the mouth which causes the scyth-like mandibles to snap shut with great force. In some of these species, the mandibles are like shears. I saw a species from southeast asia in a lab several years ago -- the workers would run at a cricket, then you'd hear an audible "snap" and then the cricket would be knocked back in one direction while the ant itself flew back in the other and one of the crickets' legs would be lying on the ground. [url]http://www.myrmecos.net/ants/odontomachus.html[/url] [/QUOTE]
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