Not like, a poisonous ant or anything, I mean how many times has a singular ant domino effected itself into killing a human. Like knocking a napkin off the table that someone then slips on.
I’m not 100% sure, but my Aunt Carly probably killed her ex on holiday in 2014. They were engaged and she came back alone afterwards, and no one ever heard from the boyfriend and she refuses to talk about it to this day.
An ant not an aunt 😂
Ok this made me chuckle. I read it in Chris Pratt’s voice for some reason.
She inherited the rights to the ski mountain he owned right? She turned that laid-back cozy mountain into an exclusive expensive resort?
Hah, nope. Nothing like that. She’s actually very homely. She had all these books on myrmecology, but got rid of them after the trip. I think she may have put a fire ant in his food to cause his throat to swell up and asphyxiate him.
I’m really leaning toward zero, but I could see someone overreacting to the presence of the ant and hurting themselves in the process.
I also feel like if it’s a likely enough event to happen once, then it might have also occurred multiple times.
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Not quite killed but managed to break my 90yo aunt’s hip. She went outside to take out the trash, saw an ant and decided to spray some insecticide to avoid getting ants inside, she bent over to spray, gave a step back, slipper caught on a loose floor tile and she fell down
OP writing for the next Final Destination.
Carpenter ants can take a house down just like termites. Do that at the wrong electrical socket or load panel and it will cause a fire.
I bet it’s happened a number of times.
none but
Like knocking a napkin off the table that someone then slips on.
Don’t give them ideas!
There was a case of a fire ant colony SAVING someone’s life…… https://vocal.media/humans/joan-murray-s-miraculous-survival-the-skydiver-who-lived-through-a-14-500-foot-fall
I thought the ant colony acted like a soft landing spot. It’s the bite of fire ant and the resulting adrenaline that help her.
Oh, quite a few. There’s a colony that kills animals and people for their bones, then the ants basically build themselves around the bones like muscles. They act like one living creature. There’s a whole documentary on it.
a singular ant
Someone somewhere probably tried to poison some ants and their dog ate the poison and they felt so bad they did suicide probably
A sad story
Another woman
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9662108/
This reports 83 deaths from the surveyed group:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0091674989903199
- It got close to 13 but the guy survived.
I don’t know. AskLemmy.
I’m pretty sure there is some evil ant species in Australia that has killed a person or two
Can confirm, ants in Australia are evil.
Though I haven’t done research on this topic, I do have a first hand account of how freaky red bull ants are.
I’ve gone hiking and sometimes I come across them. I usually hike with poles, so I always look before I plant. I planted by a red bill ant once, and it really took offense. It kept facing me no matter which direction I was from it, like it was waiting for an opening to climb my shoe, sock, and get my leg. I have been “stalked” when taking small steps away.
I don’t think they sting, but their mandibles, though. 💀 Not sure if there’s any documented deaths caused by this ant, but it sure would hurt being bit. Same with bull ants. Deaths from anaphylaxis probably, though.
…uhhhhhhhhhh, zero? I fully believe in the butterfly effect, but I’m really struggling to come up with a realistic set of events that kills a person which all originated from one ant.
The closest I can come up with is an ant walking on the ground, and sn animal gets spooked. Then ??? and ??? followed by ??? which results in someone dying.
Ant Hardy?
