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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Sep 17, 2014 - 01:44pm PT
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All life is karmic.
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Tvash
climber
Seattle
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Sep 17, 2014 - 01:49pm PT
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I've seen a column of army ants on the move in Costa Rica.
The first thing you perceive is the strong smell of formic acid in the air. Then the sound - the gentle shush of a million ants not so gently marauding their way through fallen leaves and ground cover.
The column was about a meter wide and god knows how long. Solid ants - it undulated like a jittery fluid, flowing across the forest floor at about a foot a minute.
The front of the column was utter pandemonium in miniature - a panicked exodus of leaping arthropods (think a beetle can't show fear?), many of them being picked off by an opportunistic cloud of hovering wasps and flies. Those that stumbled were immediately torn apart by the column.
It was one of the most stunning wildlife experiences I've ever witnessed.
Be very glad we're not that small.
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hobo_dan
Social climber
Minnesota
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Sep 17, 2014 - 03:27pm PT
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If so, then I'm in trouble when I die
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Sep 17, 2014 - 03:38pm PT
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Feel free to kill some crazy ants
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-rise-of-the-crazy-ants/
My brother was telling me about crazy ants, they invaded the Gulf Coast, came in on freight through the port. When you exterminate them you practically have to shovel piles of them so thick it looks like dirt.
They love electricity and create havoc with electrical equipment
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looks easy from here
climber
Ben Lomond, CA
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Sep 17, 2014 - 04:39pm PT
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Semi-related, how about black widows? I caught one in a jar the other day, then when the weather was nice and hot I dropped her into my friendly driveway harvester ant nest. Quite the show, in the 10 year old boy/nature documentary way.
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