Ants release chemicals when they die that attract other ants, to fight off the threat. This is annoying, because squishing an ant that bit you is likely to attract more bitey ants.
Do ants have a chemical signal for “all ye who enter here, either turn back or abandon all hope”? Can you teach a hive to fear a certain place? Or do they just keep coming forever?
1 of my Soul’s/Continuum’s previous-incarnations was as a bee/hornet/wasp life, & I got to experience a taste of that sentience, decades ago…
I’d say no, for the simple reason that their sentience-on-brain is so incredibly efficient, & there’s no … material-basis … wasted on that specific kind-of-mind…
There is hesitancy, but ?fear? … it doesn’t fit the Soul-memory right…
( the bee/hornet/wasp family is cladistically/genetically flying-ants, with mutations, so this is actual-relatives )
When you see opposing kinds of ants, each with their fighters lined-up, opposite each-other…
that’s about as close as you could get to “fear”, right?
In that role, there’s applying-threat/force & there’s hesitancy, balancing between, but … I’m not finding, in my Soul-memory of that category-of-life, fear.
Notice, also, that when an ant comes back with an injury, other ants will prune their limbs to limit risk-of-infection, if required… ( recent news, that ), so they’re kinda really pragmatic about things like amputations, you know?
Here’s a simple method for usually getting someone of the bee/hornet/wasp family out from your home, if they get in…
I’m presuming a house, not an apartment-building with sealed-outer-envelope/wall…
make certain you haven’t got what they register as FOOD or something smelling openly, as scent overrides thinking, throughout much of the animal-kingdom, so no perfume, no open garbage-can with whatever they eat ( wasps eat meat ) overriding their will…
block & darken the paths you don’t want them going
brighten & open the paths you do want them going ( porch light on, to lighten that path, e.g. )
if you have to wave your arms gently, wide, to catch their attention, to get them to intentionally-look-there, do so, then simply have one’s arms at one’s side, & hold still ( you don’t need to move slowly for them: they live MUCH quicker than humans do: I saw a man falling, & it was taking ages, in that previous-incarnation )…
keep your eyes slitted, as they’ll try flying into your eyes, because the dark-pupil looks to them like a home-sized opening… ( a beekeeper told me this single point, all the rest is of my Soul-memory/experience )
they should “swim” ( it feels like swimming, to them: sentience feels wet, in their crustaceans-living-in-the-air lives ) into the open-luminance, leaving your home, happily…
I’ve tried this, & it only works with that family: it doesn’t work with blackflies, it doesn’t work with mosquitos, it doesn’t work with beetles, etc…
So, it matches my Soul-memory experience’s prediction of their sentiences’ behavior.
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