What you REALLY REALLY REALLY SHOULDN’T DO is to introduce Pharaoh ants into or near data centers.
Because…
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10340-018-1024-7
The also reproduce through clonal budding. The build very small colonies (a few hundreds to thousands of ants) and when stressed due to anything, they’ll move their larvae and raise one of them into a new queen to form a new colony. This means Pharaoh ants are practically impossible to eradicate once they get established. They’re also VERY QUICK to move into climate controlled environments. And YES they DO cause severe damage to electrical equipment, and for some GODFORSAKEN SATANIC REASON, they FUCKING LOVE ELECTRICITY and ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT!
Source, I had to get almost 10k in electrical work done because after hiring a shitty pest control company, their treatments weren’t focused on the biology of pharaoh ants (they didn’t even bother to ID them), and by stressing the population, the EXPLODED the population. The ants then decided that my electric panel and several outlets had become their SWORN enemy, to the point it became a real fire hazard as a seemingly endless series of ants came to die by burning up between some junctions.
Where can i purchase these ants?
Well they have basically a global distribution: https://urbanentomology.tamu.edu/urban-pests/ants/pharoah/
But if you need a quick fix, I know a guy who knows a guy… hint hint nudge nudge…
Can you cross breed them with fireants?
According to @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world, they turn into fire ants when they reach an electrical junction. While the exterminator was playing chess, the ants were playing checkers.
“Checker-mate”
- The fire ants formally known as PharaohThis is even more genius.
We now need to prepare a tactical guide to raising and maintaining a hobby ant farm.
You can come to my house and take them all
Bro, those ants need an uber to the nearest data center.
Two birds with one stone? Smart!
Chaotic good post.
Do not plant eucalyptus either.
Everyone goes for eucalyptus try teatree
Please don’t plant bamboo in non-native areas. It’s much better to find a protected native species and plant those instead :)
Maybe black raspberry? Native to much of North America, edible for humans and wildlife, covered in thorns and spreads like a motherfucker.
Also seedy, but delicious.
Clearly putting a small dent in shareholder value is a bigger priority than conserving obsolete and inefficient ecosystems that only survive due to protectionism and tree hugging eco-fundies.
I respect the omission of /s and that you’re taking this firing squad of down votes like a champ.
The /s is cowardice.
Those who appreciate it make it all worthwhile :)
Lol, Bro doesn’t know about biodiversity collapse and how it will effect them.
To be fair once a data center is built there’s probably not much biodiversity to collapse.
This seems like a concern for a person who believes he lives in a world with a future, not a person seeking revenge for the destruction and loss of the future he believes he’s already lost.
See that’s where you’re wrong.
Not extreme enough for satire in 2026
Clearly the only way to protect the ecosystem is to destroy it ourselves?
Please don’t plant invasive plants in vulnerable ecosystems
So they’re building data centers in vulnerable ecosystems and destroying their water sources?
Bamboo is invasive in north America. Don’t
So are the data centers
Two wrongs do not make a right.
Also let’s be honest memes like these are simply Internet Warriors pretending to do shit but we all know they are doing nothing outside of online activity of posting memes and bitching on social media.
Yeah but the bamboo is going to damage more than just the data center.
I’m not even clear on how the bamboo is supposed to damage the data center.
Datacenter owners can find resources and expertise with their imaginary money.
General public, even under sane administration - probably don’t.
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Fuck em, who cares at this point
You live in the same environment. You’re part of the ‘em getting fucked.
Worth it, also bamboo is super useful, data centers are not
Bruh, this is just making things worse, bamboo is a invasive plant species
Right? Release the giant asian hornets! Oh shit where did these murder wasps come from.
it also strangles basically any native plant it spreads close to, lowering local biodiversity and lowering soil quality. and it grows extremely quickly. not a good thing to plant more of, no matter how pure your motives.
*notices comm name*
uh… fuck you op…?
Nah! *Fuck yo data centers!
Here ya go
I mean, so do datacenters…
yeah but if you blow up a datacenter it won’t spontaneously regenerate in your backyard
In this insane world, I’m not so sure.
You underestimate their willingness to just blanket the surrounding area in herbicide. They don’t actually need their water to be potable.
Don’t think planting possibly invasive species will solve any problems.
looks at the community name
Mmh MMMH
Ah yes, grass, the natural enemy of the giant construction machines
Its a datacenter not a golf course. They’re going to bulldoze the entire lot anyways.
Warning, don’t plant bamboo underneath the restrained torsos of Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, O’Leary, etc. as they grow so quickly with hard rigid points that they can break through a human torso in 3 days.
Bamboo is beginner shit, if you really want to cause trouble, try japanese knotweed. They will never be able to get rid of that!
Ik it’s a PITA!!! My yard has it. It’s been observed growing in and surrounding volcanos. FUCKING VOLCANOS!!! GAME FUCKING OVER!!!
Yup. It also quickly regenerates from the tiniest root fragment, so not even plowing and shredding the ground destroys it.
My condolences about your yard.
It’s chill it’s only the surrounding border of the yard which the already had in their yard so I don’t feel too bad plus there’s someone who keeps a tree of going. I keep it at bay by planting sunflowers and raspberries. They seem to be good shields for now. Hasn’t invaded my whole yard but I would be heartbroken if it did.
We tried everything, round up helped for two seasons but we used 6 containers of it tilled and did 6 more and then amended the soil with fresh soil and manure layered it and used 35% vinegar on the known spots. They STILL THRIVE.
I had to amend the soil anyways because after years of them being there the soil went partially hydrophobic and wasn’t taking in the water and was basically just dusty soil devoid of nutrients.
Root vegetables helped to mainly potatoes.
I learned from a cannabis forum that there’s a way to sign up for a special injector from your city (town or municipality) that you can inject the stalks with a herbicide that kills them from the inside out. Has the highest success rate but the wait list is huge.
There was discussions a while back and they said that you could possible modify a cattle injector for such purposes.
What are you, a British railway?
You’re thinking of buddleia
People, people, please. May I suggest a warm cocktail? It’s always worked in the past.
I’ve got my bamboo seeds on order. Best case scenario…wild vicious pandas show up and tear everything down in their search for more bamboo. /s
Wow. In the novel Soft Apocalypse by Will McIntosh, eco terrorists develop a strain of bamboo that will grow through anything. They plant it to tear up buildings, roads, and the occasional human. Now we just need someone to create the Dr Happy pill.
Supposably that was a form of execution in ancient china. They would stake the victim over a bamboo sprout which would eventually grow through their chest.
I was just about to say Soft Apocalypse. Excellent book. Kinda has a happy ending? Not a reread though.
I’ve reread, but there is a violent animal death I have to skip.
