If I catch you stealing ants I'll beat you up. You don't want to play with this. I won't.
@futurebird Where would you fence a colony of stolen rare british ants?
I imagine the local pawn shop isn't going to take them.
I wish I could say these ants would go all "sandkings" on their kidnapper but they won't, they are gentle forest ants.
:(
Time to write the tale of antnappers who plan on gentle forest ants, but mistakenly take a nest of not-gentle army ants.
Russian and German ant message boards?
Though I think someone had a UK contact go and get them ... or did it themselves.
These ants are too well known. Just seeing wood ants trying to be kept as pets makes people mad... and especially these rare ones.
These ants are more common in Germany though... IDK so maybe it's some UK ant fiend with zero ethics?
Digging up a colony can often kill it. It's just a bad move.
@futurebird I saw that in the UK. Mutherfuckers will steal ANYTHING to make a buck. Leave the poor ants alone, and I KNOW my Sister has their back...
There is a story behind such a threat, I believe.
@futurebird