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gameshot911 on Aug 31, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Floating Mass of Fire Ants in Texas

So what happens to the ants on the bottom of the pile?

Graziano_M on Aug 31, 2017 [–]

They couldn't survive forever, of course, but they're small enough that they actually bring down little bubbles of air.

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