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I microwaved ants with my pizza

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etiolate

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So there was a lot of rain here in Northern California and the rain often drives the ants in. I had been alarmed of it in my room, but hadn't taken noticeof it in the kitchen.

That was until I popped some leftover pizza in my microwave and noticed the ants crawling on the outside of the microwave. When I popped open the microwave to receive my nuked pizza, I noticed that there was five times as many ants on the inside than on the outside. They were crawling all around the edges and seams. They didn't even seem bothred by the 70 second nuking!

Now my first thoughts went to The Fly movies and every other old sci-fi flick. Will eating the pizza turn me into some mutant Fly-Man-Pizza the Hutt? Will attain the matching greasy curly hair and pizza topping skin and gajillin eyes and pair of wings? Will I absorb the acting skills of Jeff Goldblum and Dom DeLuise? OH THE HUMANITY!

Or will I just get bad gas from microwave pizza?
 
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COCKLES

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Ants are quite resilant to Microwaves.

And when they become our masters in the gamma-radiation wars of the next decade, they'll have your name in their notebook.

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BOW DOWN!
 
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NLB2

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etiolate said:
You people are so demanding. The microwave has since been de-anted, so no pictures. I am all apologies.
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Well put some in and nuke 'em 'till they explode!
 
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etiolate

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The ants are coming into my room through an eletrical socket that is currently on. Them creatures is amazing! If I can find some batteries then I'll take pics.
 
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Azala

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Ants are seriously one of my few remaining phobias. I can deal with them if I have to, but after some rather frightening experiences with fire ants as a child, watching that damn movie Ants (or some such) I just get all creepy, crawly in my skin just seeing them and tend to either beg someone else to dispose of them or go all ballistic and do some serious overkill to get rid of them.

And yes the rain drags them in. After the storm we had here last night I'm surprised and very thankful I haven't seen any today.

So would I eat the pizza? No way in hell. I'm not sure I could use that microwave for awhile either. *shudder*
 
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Azala

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etiolate said:
The ants are coming into my room through an eletrical socket that is currently on. Them creatures is amazing! If I can find some batteries then I'll take pics.
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I learned that ants are attracted to electricity the hard way in one of my first apartments. I was always seeing scout ants on my computer desk. Well lo and behold what did I find in my surge protector one day? A nest, of ants, complete with eggs and food they were storing and needless to say I didn't even attempt to clean it out. My skin is crawling just thinking about it.
 
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Azala

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Aren't you sweet? And here I was just feeling sorry for myself since Christmas was so crappy this year. This makes the perfect gift I didn't get! Who needs any of the crap I wished for when I can have hoardes of one of my favorite phobias!

:lol
 
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dskillzhtown

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I remember that happening at my old apartment. I was really not pleased. I lived right by the pool, and for some reason, the ants loved my place. I actually did the same thing, heated up some pizza and when I took it out, it was covered with ants.

The ants were aggressive as hell, if I cooked, I had to immediately put the leftover food in the fridge, even before I ate. I ended up moving out of that place pretty fast after that. In the 3 years I lived there, I never saw a roach, but the ants got out of control one summer.
 
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Dujour

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The way a microwave works is by heating up the water molecules in any given thing, right? Why didn't their little bodies explode from the inside? Chiton, right?
 
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Do The Mario

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I was under the impression that Ants would continuously move to the “cold spots” in your microwave when you tried to nuke them.
 
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NLB2

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Do The Mario said:
I was under the impression that Ants would continuously move to the “cold spots” in your microwave when you tried to nuke them.
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Cold spots?
 
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Do The Mario

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NLB2 said:
Cold spots?
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The heat of the microwave comes from one side that’s why the food has to rotate on the plate, once I was melting chocolate and the container was too big and didn’t spin. One side of the chocolate was fine and showed no signs of being in the microwave. the other was burnt and melted.

I have seen footage of ants on the rotating plate constantly moving to stay on the cold side microwave.
 
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alejob

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Do The Mario said:
I have seen footage of ants on the rotating plate constantly moving to stay on the cold side microwave.
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Thats boloney(sp?), I've had ants on pizza, bread, and other stuff on the microwave and they are all over the microwave and they don't cook. Its not like they go to cool spots or something like that, they simply don't get roasted, I don't know why.
 
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Do The Mario

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alejob said:
Thats boloney(sp?), I've had ants on pizza, bread, and other stuff on the microwave and they are all over the microwave and they don't cook. Its not like they go to cool spots or something like that, they simply don't get roasted, I don't know why.
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I am a 3rd year biology student, why would I lie?
 
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Do The Mario

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And ants are not very heat resistance, I have had ants on my BBQ hot plate and after turning on the BBQ they die very quickly. Note they are not exposed to flames just the heating up of the plate.
 
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alejob

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Well I went through the first year of biology before switching to computer science and I've had hands on experience with ants in pizza in a microwave. I'm not saying you are lying though its just that the ants survive the microwave and its not just because they go to cool spots.
 
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Rorschach

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1) Not all microwaves need the rotating plate.

2) Microwave cooks things from the inside-out. It doesn't matter how heat resistant something is.

3) Hot plates don't cook the same as microwaves. :p
 
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Do The Mario

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alejob said:
Well I went through the first year of biology before switching to computer science and I've had hands on experience with ants in pizza in a microwave. I'm not saying you are lying though its just that the ants survive the microwave and its not just because they go to cool spots.
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google proves me right!!

Ants can survive being "nuked" in a microwave? Microwave ovens have patterns of standing waves, with hot, very high-density areas, and cold, very low-density areas. Ants in the oven seek out the cold areas, and dodge the hot ones. If they run into a high-density area, they will survive, because their high surface area to volume ratio cools them more quickly than the ratio of large objects, and buys them enough time to locate a cold spot.
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http://www.coolquiz.com/trivia/explain/docs/microwave.asp


Just type in


ants on microwave cold spots

and there is site after site saying what i said.
 
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Rorschach

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Seriously (well, as seriously as you can get under the circumstances), it's generally agreed that microwave energy interacts most strongly with water. The best candidate for microwaving is something that's uniformly moist. Cockroaches contain very little moisture--OK, very little of anything--and their external body parts are quite dry, making them less susceptible to microwaves. They do contain some moisture, of course, but given their small size and the unevenness of microwave radiation already alluded to, they can simply dodge bullets for a time.
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Also, check out this link http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/feb2001/983663772.Zo.r.html
 
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Do The Mario

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Rorschach

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Do The Mario said:
That doesn’t disprove anything I have posted, microwave cold spots still exist ants still utilize them despite there moisture content, even the last sentence hints at that I am not sure if you are trying to argue with me or not??
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Not trying to argue with anyone. Just trying to find out how the hell roaches can live in those conditions. This forum is so defensive and pessimistic. ;b
 
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Do The Mario

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Rorschach said:
Not trying to argue with anyone. Just trying to find out how the hell roaches can live in those conditions. This forum is so defensive and pessimistic. ;b
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I just waiting for alejob to take back his "that’s baloney" statement, but even your posts before i was proved right were siding with him.

To answer your question ant’s, fly’s and cockroaches all use the methods I described above to stay alive in a microwave.
 
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segasonic

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THAT'S FUCKING DISGUSTING!

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You use the microwave for Pizzas?
 
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COCKLES

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Rei_Toei said:
Did anyone see 'Them'? Sounds like a classic :)
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James Cameron obviously thought so. Marines with flame throwers doing battle with giant ants in the sewers, rescuing little kids and fighting a giant Queen. ;)

There was supposed to be a THEM remake, but it never happened. Shame, it's a movie perfect for the treatment, especially if you replace atomic radiation with GM crop testing ect.
 
Boogie9IGN

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I think I've been traumatized thanks to my leaving an empty soda can behind my bed. Fucking army of ants just went all over my head and bed while I was sleeping (twice). Needless to say, I wasn't very Buddhist with those SOBs
 
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Hitokage

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Do The Mario: Take a break from biology and learn basic physics. Transfer of heat by convection or conduction is dissimilar to transfer of heat by radiation. Microwaves ovens work by pumping high energy radio waves(electromagnetic radiation) into a chamber. Certain substances can absorb the frequency used and the energy is converted into heat which ONLY THEN is transfered to the rest of the object by conduction. Metal will either reflect the energy or undergo the photoelectric effect. Other substances, like the vast majority of air inside, will be unaffected directly throughout the microwave. This means any organism that relies on sensing the temperature around it will be unable to discern any point in the oven where it is cooler or hotter. Now getting to this:

even the last sentence hints at that
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No. The last sentence concludes that it is because the ant is able to act as its own heat sink and effectively diffuse the added heat into the unaffected air that it is able to survive for periods of time.

Of course, convectional heating from the food being cooked is another matter.
 
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etiolate

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I never knew so many would have experienced microwave ant pizza before me.

And don't knock it till you try it. Ants is good eatings.
 
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Pachinko

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And so once again it dons on me the advantages of living in the frigid canadian wilderness(well... suburbs ... next to a city atleast). Cold weather = few bugs. Yep, that's about the long short of it and I don't miss them at all, hell I was blown away when I saw a cockroach in Japan, becuase you don't find them up here except at really disgusting resteraunts and completly decrepid buildings.. even then only in the summer.
 
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