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Trix are for ... ancient rituals (leminal.space)

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[-] thurstylark@lemm.ee 183 points 1 month ago

Interesting. Ants communicate by smell (essentially), so much so that a live ant which is coated in the "I'm dead" compound will be repeatedly carried to the dead pile regardless of how many times that ant walks away from it.

So, something in Trix must include a compound that those ants identify as "Dead pile goes here", and everyone thought someone else moved the dead pile lol

[-] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 125 points 1 month ago

Ants use oleic acid to identify other ants as dead, which is also commonly found is plants, although usually not in any notable concentration until we press the plant for oil. Trix use canola oil which contains a lot of oleic acid (compared to other oils, it's not objectively a lot). I wonder if something in the cooking process or combination with one of the other colors or flavors makes it enough to mess them up.
Skimming a research article it looks like oleic acid isn't what they use to mark the burial pile, just what goes in the pile.

[-] superb@lemmy.blahaj.zone 53 points 1 month ago

Maybe they decided the trix was dead but it was too big to move to the pile, so they moved the pile

[-] MeaanBeaan@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

Alternate tinfoil hat theory: there's dead ants in our Trix.

[-] smitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 1 month ago

Well I’m sure there’s at least a couple..

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 61 points 1 month ago

That's a decent scientific hypothesis.

But we all know it's a ritual to open up dimensional gates.

[-] DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth 27 points 1 month ago

Trix: Tastes like dead ants!

[-] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

This is the ant equivalent of Monty Python's "Bring out your dead" skit

[-] nathanjent@programming.dev 5 points 1 month ago

https://youtu.be/4UPDUpjkHg0?si=n3Sz4NyD5ld--V-3 "You gotta tell 'em. Trix is ants!"

[-] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 month ago

Even ants know Trix are for kids

[-] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago

The sucromancers entertain the idea they control life and death but they do not know the forces which guide the ether of souls. Their craft is luring the young with succulent sugars impossible to ignore. But Lo! Trix are beyond them. Foolish formics know not what to make of the deep sweets, the True Sugar.

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

What does that mean? Ant rituals maybe.

[-] Gerudo@lemm.ee 7 points 1 month ago

They are summoning the rabbit

[-] BreadOven@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Maybe it's a funeral altar.

[-] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Trix are for dead kids I guess.

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