TIL that sometimes a group of ants will get separated from their main foraging party and begin to follow each other in a continuously rotating circle. Eventually they all die of exhaustion. This phenomenon is called an "ant mill".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill



Submitted February 01, 2015 at 03:59AM by godsenfrik http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/2ucjcd/til_that_sometimes_a_group_of_ants_will_get/