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Originally Posted by Dozer523
Does anyone have stories about stinging ants? I worked for a LTC at SWC who talked about these ants that formed balls that hung from the trees. Said he'd seen firefights dirrupted for both sides because the ants got disturbed.
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Yes, there were these BIG RED ANTS that built their nests in one particular kind of tree. They would take the large leaves of this plant and chew/stitch the edges of the leaves together to build a nest. These things could get to be larger than a football, with many additions onto the original cluster. They were in the lower levels of the triple+ canopy and were usally at about the right height to be "Dislogded" by a Ruck of a bent over round eye!!! Ants DOWN THE NECK!!!!
Luckily the Yards usually saw them first and would call for a Halt. Then they would drop their gear and gather around surveying the site, and then grab it, with a bunch of the rather large leaves of this same plant, and roll them into something like a Burrito!! Then they'd eat them. Did taste pretty good, I must say.
Later
Martin
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