Nature's Disaster Signal - Ants in Exodus

Nature's Disaster Signal - Ants in Exodus

Ants as a colony move to higher and safe ground at an impending typhoon or flood.  They can sense the coming of a disaster which old folks relied on since very early times. The workers carry the larvae and pupae, and food store, to the new place where the colony is re-established.  Mass evacuation is often mistaken for swarming. Swarming is a seasonal phenomenon when soldier and worker ants become sexually active, grow wings and take off into the air on one summer evening at the onset of the rainy season or monsoon, and mate with other members of other colonies, in a sort of orgy.  Pairing results, and new pairs move to new places where they start their own colonies.  

Dr Abe V Rotor

Living with Nature School on Blog 

Ants on the run carrying their eggs and young to seek shelter in a safe place is one of the biological warnings which helped our ancestors prepare for an incoming disaster like flood and typhoon. (Photos by the author on his backyard, QC) 

Ants in Exodus

I stand between bible and history,
fiction and true story;
satellite and pheromone, 
under the sun and the moon;
man's kingdom and nature's wisdom;
Solomon's army and column of ants,
in prosperity and many wants,
ignorance and knowledge
learned from field and college. ~

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