I don't know about this particular behavior, but I'm equally fascinated as to how something like this could happen and how common it is.
Within 15-20 mins, the chemicals disappear, so if this circle continued for that long, all hope of reaching the nest would be gone. The various chemical trails they secrete all mean something different, but ordinary scent trails leading toward food get stronger as they're traversed more. I did a speech on the evolution of ants just a few weeks ago. Does each ant lay its own scent trail thereby telling the other ants "This is a heavily traversed trail, there must be something important at the end of it?" I thought only the colony scouts laid the scent trail, but I may just be completely wrong in thinking that. I wonder what it takes for something like this to occur and how common it really is. Wilson sort of "steers" the line of ants by swabbing the chemicals used for ant scent trails onto a q-tip and tracing a path.Īlso, what would happen if something were placed into that insect maelstrom? Would the ants consume it and then have more energy to perpetuate their whirlpool? If an ant can lift ten times its own body weight, how much could that spiral (theoretically) hold up? I wonder if you could induce this purposefully on a line of ants? There was that documentary, "Lord of the Ants" where E.O. Okay, now that all the puns, politics, and usual reddit fare are taken care of, let's talk science.Īnts in general are somehow incredibly fascinating to me. New to reddit? Click here! Get flair in /r/science Previous Science AMA's Repeat or flagrant offenders will be banned.Comments dismissing established findings and fields of science must provide evidence.Criticism of published work should assume basic competence of the researchers and reviewers.Non-professional personal anecdotes will be removed.No off-topic comments, memes, low-effort comments or jokes.All submissions must have flair assigned.No blogspam, images, videos, or infographics.Research must be less than 6 months old.No editorialized, sensationalized, or biased titles.No summaries of summaries, re-hosted press releases, or reposts.Directly link to published peer-reviewed research or media summary.It's all a matter of balance and perspective. Sometimes it is actually helpful, I find a solution to a problem. Or spend anxious moments playing through future outcomes, having conversations with those people in my head. You know you cannot change it, and yet, my brain will spend time reassessing it. Or my mind replays situations from the past.
You know, you want to resolve an argument, or a misunderstanding, with someone, but you cannot do it in your head &, in reality, it will never resolve, due to fundamental issues with that person. I just want to put my brain in a jar, like that old movie, Steve Martin made, The Man with Two Brains.Īnyway, there are situations that I call, Illogical Logicals, where you have a problem that your brain wants to solve, but it cannot, due to reality limitations. You exercise, sleep well, keep busy, eat well etc.īut, every now and then, my brain catches me out. I've learned techniques to avoid the relentless thought barrage. It feels like being in my own ant death circle. There are certain topics, memories and thinking that makes me all wound up, for no particular reason. I often say that my biggest enemy, is my brain. The ants go round and round, the last following the first, until they eventually, just die. There are situations where ants follow one another around and around.
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