Spent an hour last night filming flying ants in motion on the Olympus i-SPEED. It was magic to see how they move through the air hovering around the light. Over the course of the hour, they slowly started to drop to the ground, one by one until there were none. Once we got over the intial hibijibees of these ants flying under our clothes we got some mesmerizing footage of the process. A dance in the light.
I did some research on flying ants this morning and basically all that flying around is a massive orgy. Where the males are "quickly converted into single-purpose sexual missiles." During "the quick and violent mating, the male literally explodes his internal genitalia into the genital chamber of the queen and quickly dies." One queen will mate with several males during this flight. A whole lot of love going on!
Inspired Flight - the finest hour
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