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World’s Smallest Nerf Gun Shoots an Ant
Thanks a lot Mark. You figured out how to weaponize army ants. No picnic is safe now. Way to go traitor!
ant, please forgive me if I have ever pissed you off. My bad, buddy.
Reindeer Cyclone
So not like army ants that die in their never ending loops.
w1ndex (Member Profile)
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Army Ant Death Spiral
I'm always surprised someone hasn't scooped up "Army Ant Death Spiral" as a heavy metal band name.
Army Ant Death Spiral
Of course, this is from southern Ecuador. On the part of Equador north of the equator they go clockwise. This is why so few army ants are found in the arctic regions, where the coriolis effect is much stronger.
Vexus (Member Profile)
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Mysterious video of ants circling an iPhone
Army Ant Death Spiral has been added as a related post - related requested by Vexus on that post.
Behold The Majesty of Simcity GlassBox Simulation
Just like army ants!
Ants In Silver Space Suits | Africa
I had a group of army ants use me a highway once while I was trying to be all quiet and hidden in the forest one night. That "everywhere" part is no bull!
Ants are everywhere!
The Army Ant from the BBC's Life in the Undergrowth ...
>> ^jonny:
dead
I can't find its replacement.
Ant Army Invasion! - Wild South America - BBC
You know what's funny? If I was an army ant, but had a human brain, I would be freaked the fuck out in their hive!
The Army Ant from the BBC's Life in the Undergrowth ...
>> ^Sagemind:
We caught a Huge Black Widow Spider and put it in a jar.
My kids, wanting to feed the spider, put 7-10 ants in the jar with her.
Ten minutes later, the the black widow was curled up on the bottom of the jar - Dead!
Now which one is scarier!
Ants FTW!
Have You Ever Seen An Ant HURRICANE?
The person off the camera shot sounded Japanese, and I don't know if Army ants are found in Japan. I thought they live in the Amazon and Australia?
Anyways, the camera was very shaky and wasn't focused well so we couldn't see it clearly.
Perhaps they were doing a ritual mating dance on the floor. They usually fly up and circle around the queen when in flight. Sometimes the queen fails to take off but the males continue to circle around her anyway. And I think this is one of those cases.
Have You Ever Seen An Ant HURRICANE?
http://theantroom.blogspot.com/2006/11/ant-death-spiral.html (not mine -- linked from YouTube video).
"This is one of my favorite things about ants -- the ant death spiral. Actually, it's a circular mill, first described in army ants by Schneirla (1944). A circle of army ants, each one following the ant in front, becomes locked into a circular mill. They will continue to circle each other until they all die. How crazy is that? Sometimes they escape, though. Beebe (1921) described a circular mill he witnessed in Guyana. It measured 1200 feet in circumference and had a 2.5 hour circuit time per ant. The mill persisted for two days, "with ever increasing numbers of dead bodies littering the route as exhaustion took its toll, but eventually a few workers straggled from the trail thus breaking the cycle, and the raid marched off into the forest."
Folks interested in things like self-organization, emergant properties, complex systems, etc. etc. like to point to this as a cautionary tale. I even found a reference to a group programming robots to interact like ants that accidentally produced this behavior in their robots. Apparently you can also reproduce this behavior in the lab by placing a glass jar into the surface. The ants will eventually circle the jar and continue to do so even after the jar has been removed. I assume just army ants. Wow, I wish we had an army ant colony in the lab."
National Geographic - Paper Wasps
Anything that can make me empathize with wasps deserves an upvote. Damned Army Ants.