So they can potentially just spiral until they die of exhaustion? I never realized just how much I have in common with ants. Shared with Public Follow These ants are trapped in a death spiral.Luckily for these ants, they only swirled for about half hour and then another half hour later, not an ant could be seen. 1.5K 225 comments 1.9M views LADbibleposted a video to playlist Animal Antics. Have you ever encountered an Army Ant Death Spiral Also known as an ant mill, its a freaky phenomenon where a cluster of army ants become separated from the main foraging party. The ants that are stuck in the “antnado” can die of exhaustion. Ant Death Spiral 123,204 views 415 Dislike Share Save annonamous789 689 subscribers This happens when ants loose the scent trail of their colony. Like a cube of Borg drones that’s been separated from the collective, these army ants were somehow separated from the main foraging party and they lost the pheromone trail and began to follow one another, forming a continuously rotating circle. A phenomenon where army ants follow each other in circles, sometimes until they die and thus known as an ant death spiral was captured on camera at a university in Venezuela. What the hell is an army ant death spiral besides a kickass name for a metal band? Let me copy/paste that for you while I spin in my computer chair, eventually forming an idiot puke spiral:Īnts secrete a pheromone called Trail pheromones so it can lead members of its own species toward a food source. InverteFest InverteFest Show this thread 0:38 18. I dont know what is genus or specie from this ants. This happen when some ants lost track to it colony and follow other ants in a rotating circle of death. This is a video captured near the Tandayapa Bird Lodge in Tandayapa, Ecuador of an army ant death spiral (aka ant mill). And the last phenomenon recorded for me is an ant mill.
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