Human Blood Experement

I thought up this science experiment, and yes it is science of a sorts, while talking about blood types. I like 1 person in 3 am filth, I have the most common blood O. My friend has the rarest AB- 1 person in 167 has it which is 0.7% of the population. It got me thinking about the differences. Then when I got my ants I wondered like any normal person would..... Would the ants eat / drink human blood and I wondered if they would prefer rare blood or common tarts blood like my own. I guessed that the would prefer posh blood.

Was time to get this experiment under way...

First off I needed plaster. To be on the safe side i got two.... Better safe than sorry, casualty is over 10 miles away.

Next on my list was the stabby thing (lancet) which is in the blurry picture here, the type of thing they use to stab you with to test you before you give blood. I also got the stick things that suck the blood out from your finger.

How it works it there is a spring loaded button that you press and a small blade pops out and stabs you making you bleed like a stuck pig.

Karen after a few minutes working up the courage managed to stab herself. She managed to get a few drops out for each colony to try.

The movie, Karen making herself bleed and of me being a brave wee soldier is here...
There is a blank bit in the middle, its on purpose.

Click here to download the movie.. I think its worth it. Right click, save target as.. (1.76Mb)

I couldn't do it to myself took over half an hour and eventually managed to stop flapping about enough to let Karen stick me, see the movie link above.

I'll put my boasting hat on here, the common blood flowed more freely than the posh blood :)

There was so much in fact that I managed to put some in the freezer for later.

So after blood letting was over it was time to feed the ants, The Tweedlies disappointed me. I was sure bigger ants would have been more into the blood. I logged what happened.

Then I gave the dog a Mohican while
waiting for something to happen.

The ants seemed to prefer the rare blood but that could be down to a few things. My mucky blood was in bigger blobs. Because the posh blood was in smaller amounts it clotted, scabbed and dried out faster.

The day after the experiment I had to kill one of those black and white spiders, the type that jump. It was in between me and my toothbrush so I had to take that bad boy out. So smacked him with a Woman's Weekly and popped him in with the Tweedlies. They didn't touch it. I looked back an hour or so later and they had dragged it an inch or so up one of the tubes. I took it out and gave it to the Orphans.

Within a few minutes they were attacking it, trying to kill the already dead spider. I looked back 10 minutes later and the spider was gone. The Orphans have some sort of blood lust, they are the more aggressive of the two colonies.

Don't know what the Orphans and Tweedlies are?
Yo can find more info here at my ant blog. If you read any of it before you should read it from the bottom up.... Confusing otherwise. If for any insane reason you want to contact me you can mail me at ewan@weirdlittlebiscuit.com.

Conclusion

If you are murdered and left out in the woods and you have posh blood then your corpse has a greater chance of being eaten ants. Please note the and.... I don't want to frighten people unduly.

Ewan Loughlin, May 2005

Any suggestions for future experements should be sent to ewan@weirdlittlebiscuit.com