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Date: 21 February 2009 10:10:05
How do ants move so fast? I can't be bothered to ask google whether anyone has calculated how fast an ant would move if it were human sized. Google is more work on a slow connection.
The weather has heated up again, but the ants have not yet emerged in force. I left some watermelon rind on a plate on the bench all day and it remains untouched. Perhaps it takes them a few days to warm up. Maybe they're like little reptiles and they hibernate on cold days.
Did you know that the thing that makes ants taste bad is formic acid? And the sensation of ants crawling all over you (occurs in withdrawal from some substances) is called formication? I find that to be an amusing medical word. Another funny word is infarct.