Hi Dan, glad you like the recording!
That's a really good question about stridulating and before I read your com=
ment I didn't know ants did that.
There's definitely more going on in the recording than the ants flying. At =
any one time only a few were airborn. Lots more were scaling grass stems an=
d seemed to be struggling in knots with each other on the way up.
Ian
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London Sound Survey http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk
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> > Saw a crack in the ground with other day with hordes of flying ants spi=
lling out of it. Couldn't resist poking the BP4029 stereo shotgun in among =
them:
> >
> > http://www.soundsurvey.org.uk/index.php/survey/wildlife/other_animals/1=
02/941/
> >
> > Some EQ'ing to make it sound like you've stuck your head in the ants' n=
est - had in mind the story of the biologist WD Hamilton crawling inside a =
vast wasps' nest in the Amazon (and getting badly stung).
>
> Great catch! Do you think that sound is wings, or are they stridulating?
>
> -Dan
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