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Ant Death Spiral

This is one of my favorite things about ants — the ant death spiral. Actually, it’s a circular mill, first described in army ants by Schneirla (1944). A circle of army ants, each one following the ant in front, becomes locked into a circular mill. They will continue to circle each other until they all die. How crazy is that? Sometimes they escape, though. Beebe (1921) described a circular mill he witnessed in Guyana. It measured 1200 feet in circumference and had a 2.5 hour circuit time per ant. The mill persisted for two days, “with ever increasing numbers of dead bodies littering the route as exhaustion took its toll, but eventually a few workers straggled from the trail thus breaking the cycle, and the raid marched off into the forest.”

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    I HATE ANTS WORST INSECT EVER
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    Ant Death Spiral This is one of my favorite things about ants — the ant death spiral. Actually, it’s a circular mill,...
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    My instant reaction...large swirling masses with an eye
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    It’s like a small galaxy of ants…
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    systemfehler der natur
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