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Myrmecology (ANTS) with Terry McGlynn

Ologies with Alie Ward

Alie Ward

Comedy, Science, Society & Culture

4.923.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Cult-leader queens. Bullet ant stings. Kitchen pest hacks. The dynamics of a billion-sister megacolony. Dr. Terry McGlynn sits down to have a BIG discussion about itty-bitty creatures. Learn about tropical ants, urban ants, how they walk on water, which ones are picky eaters, which ones make weird sounds, what ant movies are bunk, and some self-help takeaways. Also: sniffing your relatives before deciding to kill them.

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0:00.0

Oh hey, it's your grandma's new boyfriend who just wants to show you some magic tricks.

0:05.0

Allie Ward, back with another episode of Apologies.

0:08.0

So it's Tuesday, man. Let's learn about some ants. They're tiny, they're mighty, they're harmless.

0:13.2

Sometimes not. And they're more organized than all of the clowns on your slack thread.

0:18.7

But you know what? Maybe you don't want to see thousands of tiny ladies having an all-night

0:24.0

rave in your cereal pantry. But to quote common parlance, can a bitch live?

0:29.2

Let's learn about these little creatures. And more importantly, let's suck some self-help and

0:33.9

organizational strategies out of them with a mirror-collegist, which is a word you only know about

0:39.7

if you're a mirror-collegist. But first, pre-usual, you know the drill. I say thank you to people who

0:45.2

let me keep the podcast going all the patrons at patreon.com slash allergies who pay a buck or more

0:51.3

a month. All the folks who put allergies merch.com things on their bodies, including a ton of

0:58.1

very dare I say delicious fall designs like vintage-y looking college sweatshirts and bird print

1:04.4

mugs and train shirts, brand new enamel pins for epidemiology. And as always, thank you to the folks

1:10.4

who say, you know what? This pot is worth mashing the star button on the iTunes app. And maybe

1:16.4

leaving a review for dadward to creep in the night when she feels loansome and then read aloud to

1:22.4

you to prove that I read them. So this week's fresh review is in from someone calling themselves

1:29.7

don't know yet. They say my only problem with this podcast is that every episode makes we want to go

1:35.6

do all of the things. And I don't have time in my day to do all of it. Like hike the railroad lines,

1:43.2

scale of alcano, conserve the ocean, redefine beauty standards. Ah, I freaking love this podcast,

1:50.4

have shared it with everyone I know. Currently writing this in myology's shirt, that is all.

1:55.9

Don't know yet. One thing I know you seem cool. Thanks for listening. Thank you for the reviews.

2:01.5

Dadward loved it. Okay, meeeeeeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrr, mythology. I said that all strung out like a line of

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