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Post Wed Sep 15, 2010 8:27 pm

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Ants secrete a chemical as they venture out to look for food so that they know how to get back to the ant hill and so that they can follow each other without getting lost. It it happens that an ant walks into a circle while secreting this chemical, the ants will start moving into a circle. Eventually, the entire mound of ants will add to the circle until it becomes huge. They can last for days, either until all of the ants die of starvation or one of them happens to move out of place.
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Post Thu Sep 16, 2010 12:16 am

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WoW! :o ....
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Post Thu Sep 16, 2010 6:07 am

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Well thats just freaky.
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Post Thu Sep 16, 2010 10:05 am

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Bees, Wasps, and Ants all display a weird form of social interaction. While all are different, they all do some pretty pointless things sometimes. Bees and wasps "dance" usually to relay information such as angle of the sun and food locations/ hive location, but ants use a more simple aggregation pheromone and sometimes they do stupid stuff like that! lol. It's great to see though! Did you record that yourself? I would have set a camera on a tripod just to see how long they stayed. Sometimes it can be a reallllly long time.

EDIT - Boxelder bugs are known for aggregating in weird ways also, but mostly to stay warm or have a huge orgy... but those are coleopterans and bees, wasps, and ants are hymenopterans.

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Post Thu Sep 16, 2010 10:38 am

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DarkPacMan77 wrote:bees, wasps, and ants are hymenopterans.

My girl had a hymen.
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Post Fri Sep 17, 2010 9:10 am

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No, I didn't record it but I've heard of a time where one lasted a week!!! :O the circle jus gets larger because ants keep dying and going to the bottom and the ones that are still alive keep walking the trail, on top of 'em.

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