I see a lot of support for the insect ants. Ants aren’t workers, ants aren’t proletariats, ants are an army of monarchists. They are the brits of insects They invade other ant colonies (hexbear.net)

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They war with other colonies, they drive out several termite species rendering them extinct- along with other ground dwelling insects. They are also racist.

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[-] Frank@hexbear.net 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Ants aren't actually monarchists. The girls rule the roost, the queens don't actually exert control on them beyond identifying themselves as queen.

That said, we are locked in battle with them for domination of the earth. It's really a four way fight between ants, rats, humans, and kudzu to rule over the mudball. Who will win? Who will rule over the ruins? Time alone will tell.

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 7 points 4 months ago

I want to see ant nest uplifts as part of a pan-terran spaceship crew in some sf

[-] Flyberius@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Do the ant computers in the Children of Time series count (probably not)? I always found their enslavement to the spiders to be problematic and I hope it is addressed in a later book.

There is Of Ants and Dinosaurs by Liu Cixin.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 4 months ago

Aren't rats basically just a human parasite (though on the scale of societies and not individual humans)? Same as cockroaches neither of those species prosper out of the ordinary in the wild.