Fire ants have a powerful sting and a strong poison, and literally sail away from a hurricane «Florence», forming «rafts», said the weather resource the Weather Channel.
To survive during the devastating floods after the Sino-North Carolina a powerful storm, insects, diligence of which there are many tales, have created «Islands», similar to boats.
Today, September 17, an NBC News correspondent Gadi Schwartz posted a video in which he managed to fix a few of these «rescue operations». Over 5 hours of video was viewed more than 25 thousand users.
Millions and millions of fire ants forming islands and floating on flood waters. #HurricaneFlorence pic.twitter.com/iLZoMugmZI
— Gadi Schwartz (@GadiNBC) September 17, 2018
«People aren’t the only ones trying to stay afloat,» — said in a similar record Weather Channel, where you see millions of insects near the highway in Rocky Point.
Like ant rafts have also been recorded in Texas during the hurricane «Harvey» last year.
«Floods do not drown fire ants. Instead, their colonies are raised from the soil, form a volumetric balloon, floating on the water until they reach land or object on which you will be able to crawl,» said Paul R. Nester, specialist services A&M AgriLife journalists from Houstonia Magazine.
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