Texans shaken as thousands of fire ants seen forming rafts on river using their bodies
This army is in formation.
Thousands of fire ants formed rafts from the city of Texas, which floats in flood waters and reported gross behavior with the inhabitants using their bodies.
KXAN TAKE TO AUSTİN X Austinite was seen by David Todd in a large cluster in the waters of Lake Travis to publish a video from small creatures.
X users focused on scary view.
“A floating pure hate ball,” he observed.
Im I did more than seeing them. I went to the ramp on the quay at night as the lake rose rapidly, ”he wrote. “Wretched.”
“The torch emerges,” someone else suggested.
Fire ants forms shake from their own bodies in Texas flood waters. KXAN
Broken insects that may cause painful stings are common in Texas. However, when the underground nests are inundated, they sink their teeth into each other, lock their limbs and form raft to survive.
“This is called a self -organizing or self -unifying process, and this is something that social insects do,” he said.
“There are many structures that ants have made similarly. For example, army ants will make bridges in the rivers.”
