Ok so here goes. I have been working outside quite a bit, and as such, you tend to look around and become more aware of your surroundings while doing so. Especially so when you are outside for long bursts of time, without much to do. I have a particular area in which I hang out while being outside for these long bursts of time. In this area, I get bored and watch the insects/birds/rabbits/etc go about their daily lives.
One day, I noticed an ant colony quite happily being ants within the crack of a curb. There was a ton of them. Me having CF, and having freshly coughed up a big thick CF lung oyster, I spat it about 2 inches from the entryway of the colony/nest. I didn't think it was huge at the time, it didn't even feel like a full mouth full, but when it hit the concrete curb next to them, it looked like the biggest green omelet you (or the ants more specifically) have ever seen. Complete with decent sized bubbles too.
I thought this new found disgusting globulous shape would be nothing but unwanted to the ants, and they would possibly all join together and try and push it away from their little ant highway or something. Boy was I wrong.
Within less than one minute, one ant from the colony had come into contact with my CF lung oyster, he stood there and fiddled around briefly, then ran back to the crack in which his brethren lived. Within a full minute to a minute and a half, there was a second ant, then a third, all doing what the first ant did. Each ant had inspected the goo, then ran back to the crack, apparently alerting the others.
Within 3 or so minutes, the glob was being swarmed by tons of ants. I even knelt down and tried to count them, and it was impossible. What was once 3 or 4 ants playing in my bronchial DNA, were now easily 700 or more. I wasn't sure if they were drinking the moisture from it due to current draughts and this possibly being their only source of water, or if they were eating it.
At one point while watching this, a real large ant came along that was clearly not the same type of ant. This ant was about 7 times bigger than the other ants who were frolicking in my slime. The smaller ants who had been there a while, didn't pay any attention to this bigger ant, walking over them. Until the bigger ant came into contact with my goo. He apparently liked it as much as the smaller ants, and as soon as he did more than briefly pause at the outside, he was attacked by the other ants.
This big ant ran away, and as soon as he was left alone by the other ants (maybe 2-3 inches away), he ran back to the mucous to do more of what he was doing earlier, to be met over and over again by the same response of the smaller ants. Obviously my mouthful of pseudomonas was something of a treasure to this amazing little insects.
At this time, My duties called and I had to move on. But I knew I would be back at that spot within another 30 or so minutes. At the time I left, the ants were in a feeding frenzy of some type (I'm assuming they were eating it) and I thought there wouldn't be anything new going on when I got back besides maybe more feeding, and maybe more defending their treasure from the larger ants.
I got back and I kind of freaked out. What used to be only ants eating away at my goo, had turned into a giant literal ball of pure ants (picture one of those super market sized smaller super balls from the gum ball machines, to give scale perspective), buried in/within/partially on top of grass clippings from a previous mowing the lawn there had taken place before. No it wasn't the wind that blew the old clippings onto the wet mucous and it stuck (trust me i thought of this), because there were no other clippings anywhere near bye.
For some reason, these little guys placed these grass clippings all around/on my lung oyster. I have no idea why. Possibly as some form of bridge so they could not drown in my goo and yet retrieve whatever they wanted from the middle of it? I have no idea. It made me very curious though. Not only was a typical lung oyster something the ants liked big time, it was something they also defended from other ants, AND engineered a spiderweb like catacomb of grass clippings to help them do/finish whatever they were doing to it.
My shift had quite a long way to go, I was standing there and felt another productive cough coming on. I coughed up another large one, though not as big. I aimed my lips slightly to the right of the green ant buffet and squirted it down. It landed slightly to the right, and around about 3/4 the size of the first one. Sure enough, they started to do the same thing. I could have sword I saw two or three ants on the perimeter delegate a certain amount of ants from the previous buffet, to head to the new one. The new one also turned into a giant frenzied buffet, and later also turned into a grass clipping ant orgry like the first one.
Throughout the night I spit two more oysters of varying shapes near this fiesta. Both of which were treated the same way. What could be going on? I don't remember ants being this goofy for my goobers when I was younger, though to be honest, I never stood around to see what happened after I spit it out, especially near an ant colony.
Now whenever I am there (often during the week), I "Feed" them with a big thick CF lung offering. This has been going on for over a week now, and every time it's the same response from them. I know I have pseudo, and staph in my mucous. I inhale albuterol, pulmozyme, and collistin. I have no idea what drives them, or makes my mucous so desireable. I ask you guys to try and spit a cf oyster near some ants and see what happens. I'm curious if there is something special about mine, or if others with similar cultures and medications get the same results.
Since i've been feeding them regularly, and I'm a big sc-fi film buff, I sometimes think I will walk over to that spot, and see they have made little grass clipping effigies of myself, as a form of god worship.
One day, I noticed an ant colony quite happily being ants within the crack of a curb. There was a ton of them. Me having CF, and having freshly coughed up a big thick CF lung oyster, I spat it about 2 inches from the entryway of the colony/nest. I didn't think it was huge at the time, it didn't even feel like a full mouth full, but when it hit the concrete curb next to them, it looked like the biggest green omelet you (or the ants more specifically) have ever seen. Complete with decent sized bubbles too.
I thought this new found disgusting globulous shape would be nothing but unwanted to the ants, and they would possibly all join together and try and push it away from their little ant highway or something. Boy was I wrong.
Within less than one minute, one ant from the colony had come into contact with my CF lung oyster, he stood there and fiddled around briefly, then ran back to the crack in which his brethren lived. Within a full minute to a minute and a half, there was a second ant, then a third, all doing what the first ant did. Each ant had inspected the goo, then ran back to the crack, apparently alerting the others.
Within 3 or so minutes, the glob was being swarmed by tons of ants. I even knelt down and tried to count them, and it was impossible. What was once 3 or 4 ants playing in my bronchial DNA, were now easily 700 or more. I wasn't sure if they were drinking the moisture from it due to current draughts and this possibly being their only source of water, or if they were eating it.
At one point while watching this, a real large ant came along that was clearly not the same type of ant. This ant was about 7 times bigger than the other ants who were frolicking in my slime. The smaller ants who had been there a while, didn't pay any attention to this bigger ant, walking over them. Until the bigger ant came into contact with my goo. He apparently liked it as much as the smaller ants, and as soon as he did more than briefly pause at the outside, he was attacked by the other ants.
This big ant ran away, and as soon as he was left alone by the other ants (maybe 2-3 inches away), he ran back to the mucous to do more of what he was doing earlier, to be met over and over again by the same response of the smaller ants. Obviously my mouthful of pseudomonas was something of a treasure to this amazing little insects.
At this time, My duties called and I had to move on. But I knew I would be back at that spot within another 30 or so minutes. At the time I left, the ants were in a feeding frenzy of some type (I'm assuming they were eating it) and I thought there wouldn't be anything new going on when I got back besides maybe more feeding, and maybe more defending their treasure from the larger ants.
I got back and I kind of freaked out. What used to be only ants eating away at my goo, had turned into a giant literal ball of pure ants (picture one of those super market sized smaller super balls from the gum ball machines, to give scale perspective), buried in/within/partially on top of grass clippings from a previous mowing the lawn there had taken place before. No it wasn't the wind that blew the old clippings onto the wet mucous and it stuck (trust me i thought of this), because there were no other clippings anywhere near bye.
For some reason, these little guys placed these grass clippings all around/on my lung oyster. I have no idea why. Possibly as some form of bridge so they could not drown in my goo and yet retrieve whatever they wanted from the middle of it? I have no idea. It made me very curious though. Not only was a typical lung oyster something the ants liked big time, it was something they also defended from other ants, AND engineered a spiderweb like catacomb of grass clippings to help them do/finish whatever they were doing to it.
My shift had quite a long way to go, I was standing there and felt another productive cough coming on. I coughed up another large one, though not as big. I aimed my lips slightly to the right of the green ant buffet and squirted it down. It landed slightly to the right, and around about 3/4 the size of the first one. Sure enough, they started to do the same thing. I could have sword I saw two or three ants on the perimeter delegate a certain amount of ants from the previous buffet, to head to the new one. The new one also turned into a giant frenzied buffet, and later also turned into a grass clipping ant orgry like the first one.
Throughout the night I spit two more oysters of varying shapes near this fiesta. Both of which were treated the same way. What could be going on? I don't remember ants being this goofy for my goobers when I was younger, though to be honest, I never stood around to see what happened after I spit it out, especially near an ant colony.
Now whenever I am there (often during the week), I "Feed" them with a big thick CF lung offering. This has been going on for over a week now, and every time it's the same response from them. I know I have pseudo, and staph in my mucous. I inhale albuterol, pulmozyme, and collistin. I have no idea what drives them, or makes my mucous so desireable. I ask you guys to try and spit a cf oyster near some ants and see what happens. I'm curious if there is something special about mine, or if others with similar cultures and medications get the same results.
Since i've been feeding them regularly, and I'm a big sc-fi film buff, I sometimes think I will walk over to that spot, and see they have made little grass clipping effigies of myself, as a form of god worship.