Is it normal, since 13, to want to study ants?

I started all this from 13 years old, and physically studied ants and wanted to study them, and the whole time it wasn't other insects like flies, mosquitos, maggots, fleas, etc I wanted to study, although I learned about mosquitos in high school, but I wanted to study ants! It's called myrmecology. But I thought until now I was merely doing entomology (the study of all insects), but it was really about ants. Ants are cute. :) I even shared on Facebook a post from a website on myrmecology. I looked at an ant's face under a microscope when I was 13. And I proved to the Mormon elders of the church, in the park, that ants have compound eyes, which is excruciatingly difficult, because Christians deny science although a scientist is very good at convincing Christians of scientific fact, and I told them it's a scientific fact, so I was and still am very and lovingly glad I physically studied ants, which I haven't done for 2 decades, until now when I'm eager to study ants at the age of 35 years, and to get a book on ants and read in it. Is any of this normal?

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  • CozmoWank

    Everyone has something that really stirs their interests. There is nothing wrong with getting excited about ants. They are pretty interesting little creatures.

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    • Hansberger

      Woohoo! I myself knew you would be moved from my lifelong love of the subject!

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  • Hansberger

    Certain types of entomology, such as formicology (ants), lepidopterology (butterflies, moths and skippers), and apiology (honeybees and honey-making). :)

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  • downwardSpiral

    the real weird thing is why would Mormons deny compound eyes on ants?

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  • lordofopinions

    Ants have been around for hundreds of millions of years. They seem to have their own language transferred by touch or tapping and dancing. If an ant has found something useful to the colony it will return and let another ant know then those two ants will tell others then those 4 ants......well you get the idea. A number of ants will then go in search of whatever it is the first ant found. Amazing little critters.

    Them and cockroaches will out live us as a species.

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  • IrishPotato

    Just do it.

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    • Hansberger

      It's already done.

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      • IrishPotato

        It's totally normal if you ask me. Ants are interesting.

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  • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

    how bout bees?

    theyre also in a society and theyre arguably more important to humanity

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    • Hansberger

      I'll be studying the honeybees and their honeymaking. :)

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      • donteatstuffoffthesidewalk

        ants dont make nothin worth stirrin into tea

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