Casting a Fire Ant Colony with Molten Aluminum

Liveleak.com ^ | 12/12/14 | uncredited

[Abathar]

Very cool art, but I wonder where PETA stands on this?

[Abathar]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c4_1386672510

[arderkrag]

Yeh, I’ve seen that done a few times now. Very cool. Could teach us a lot about structural integrity.

[2harddrive]

It looks like a Christmas tree! Very interesting.

[Delta 21]

I turned up the volume and you can here the lil things screaming bloody murder the whole time !!

Cool.

[1010RD]

Brilliant idea and a great use of fire ants and aluminum. I wonder how much the artwork will sell for?

http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&_trksid=p2047675.l2565&rt=nc&item=251400985690

[BuffaloJack]

Who would even think of doing something like that?

[Ken522]

No ants were killed in this experiment, were there? /s

[Black Agnes]

Ping to a cool video.

[mazda77]

Why waste the aluminum? Old southern solution;

Get regular (not instant) grits right out of the box. Sprinkle it around the mound. Do not sprinkle it on the mound. The workers come out and find all of this new wonderful food and take it down for the drones and queen.

So when they add the water in their systems, they just blow up, the mound is now dead.

BTW, this works for all types of ants.

[Black Agnes]

Good grief, it’s $2550.

Hubby’s seriously thinking of an income source!

[Abathar]

My guess is someone who has been bit a few times by the little b*stards...

[from occupied ga]

Those who have encountered fire ants wish that there would be many more of the casts made

[Black Agnes]

There are way easier ways to kill fire ants. But none nearly as geeky cool. Or as profitable!

Dead fire ants == $2500 right now.

[Black Agnes]

http://www.anthillart.com/

[NonValueAdded]

Got plenty of mounds, will give that a try.

[JSteff]

Of course they were. Did you notice them pushing out of the mound during the pouring of the lead?

They bought it on themselves by being in a humanly populated area.

[Black Agnes]

You ladies have got to watch this & see the finished product. And then the ebay posting. We may have found another source of income!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The only good fire ant is a dead fire ant.

[Hot Tabasco]

giant ant hill excavated

[Abathar]

Just... Wow.