Ants In Silver Space Suits | Africa

"... These silver ants have ten minutes to retrieve their food under the African sun before time is up."

From http://myrmecos.net/2013/02/24/sunday-night-movie-cataglyphis-brave-the-heat/ ...


Longer and better from BBC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCaVvHeI8jU
grintersays...

There might be. I was turning on an IR camera every fifteen minutes or so to check something. On one of those checks I saw ants running over the nearby vines, I turned the camera to my legs and noticed they were covered. I don't think I hit 'record'.. but I might have.
I was kind of amazed that I didn't feel them, or hear them or anything, but I may have been half asleep. They didn't start biting until I started trying to smack them off of me. At which point, they swept across the solar system, and I was no longer silent.
..if I ever go through those tapes again, and find that this was recorded, you can Sift it.

antsaid:

No videos/photo(graphs) of this incident?

antsays...

I am surprised they didn't eat you in your sleep.

grintersaid:

There might be. I was turning on an IR camera every fifteen minutes or so to check something. On one of those checks I saw ants running over the nearby vines, I turned the camera to my legs and noticed they were covered. I don't think I hit 'record'.. but I might have.
I was kind of amazed that I didn't feel them, or hear them or anything, but I may have been half asleep. They didn't start biting until I started trying to smack them off of me. At which point, they swept across the solar system, and I was no longer silent.
..if I ever go through those tapes again, and find that this was recorded, you can Sift it.

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