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- 21 days
Do the bottom ones drown and the top ones just hold them together? Or do they rotate shifts?
- Jumi@lemmy.worldEnglish20 days
They trap air between their bodies and extremities, that’s how they float as well.
- folekaule@lemmy.worldEnglish21 days
I remember hearing about this in reports from major hurricanes in the South. Sounds pretty horrifying to be stranded on a roof or floating around on your own makeshift raft and then happening upon one of these ant rafts of doom.
Edit: thanks for the nightmares everyone. That’ll teach me to read Lemmy right before bedtime.
- Blooper@lemmy.worldEnglish21 days
Fun story - as a kid my backyard in-ground pool would occasionally get these grapefruit sized ant rafts. No idea why or how they would do it, but somehow they’d find themselves floating around in there. And if you don’t look too closely it just looks like a dead leaf that landed in the pool.
Dove in one hot summer day. Came up for air. Facefull of ants. Never again.
