Low Flying Thai Ants With Attitude. Farang Girls Come Undone. But Not Thai.

[OldChinaHam]

What is it with these ants we have in Thailand?

First of all, I defy anyone to really say for sure whether they are flying or just running astoundingly fast.

I have clocked these ants I have at over 10 kilometers per hour, in short bursts on a measured track I have set up.

They can run on anything but when they really get going,

Then I am sure they are flying, otherwise,

Their little legs just could not move that fast and they would get tired,

Which they never do, it seems.

It could not be the heat in Thailand, or some chemical reactions which might lead to these super fast ants.

Taiwan ants never move faster than an inch a second.

Is is because we are so close to the equator here? I doubt it.

I have gone online to Google this and I only came up with one blog post talking about 5 types of Thai Ants in his pants:

7 Types of Ants in Your Pants in Thailand

"Filed under THAI WILDLIFE

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I woke up last night again with ants forming a trail across my shoulder to get to some Lay’s potato chip remnants that must have been on my shirt and the bed. Seems whenever I watch a movie in bed and have the mandatory 10 baht bag of Lay’s I wake up with ant bites all over. This has happened four times now and it doesn’t matter how careful I am about eating the chips – the crumbs are still falling somehow."

Thais’ ignore the ants. If I wasn’t around my girlfriend wouldn’t even see them. They don’t bother her. I know this because when we first were dating and she stayed in her own room every time I went to her room there would be parades of ants leading to and from whatever food she had left on her plate on the floor. I watched to see – would she flip out over it like me? Nope. Not a concern at all. If ants aren’t biting her – she could care less what they’re doing. They could take over the apartment and she’d walk around them.

So you can see that I am not the only one who is thinking and writing about this fascinating but also astounding aspect of life in Thailand.

But how could they fly if they actually are flying?

We all know that science is always discovering new things about the natural world that we once thought impossible.

I am thinking that maybe these ants in Thailand are already so light in structure that they are almost weightless to begin with.

Then, as part of their diet, they consume some element that leads to gas in their gut, which is lighter than hydrogen.

Then, they sort of just need to touch down while "running" about every 20th step or so.

Thus, it only looks to us like they might be flying when they are actually pushing off and gliding, like the Americans did while walking on the Moon.

Maybe this explanation is not so close to reality as it could be.

Well, the reason I am commenting here about this subject this evening is that I have noticed that during this month more and more Farang girls I have seen and talked to seem driven almost to distraction over the any problem here. It is almost as of they have COME UNDONE or something. "Unglued" would be overstating it, though.

I guess the Farang ladies are not like the Thai ladies who are not frightened by something as small as an ant.

I as for me and the ants, i do not mind them USUALLY because I regard them as the cleanest of animals next to bees.

I will not say I have ever come unglued by the ants, but about an hour ago I picked up the wrong tissue to wipe my upper lip after a glass of milk.

And the crazy thing was, that I had picked up the wrong tissue.

I mistakenly picked up the tissue that I had used this afternoon after a meal of toast and honey.

And inside the tissue there were about 1 half million ants.

As I gently patted my lip, the ants started flying low down my harms, up my face to reach my scalp, and just about everywhere you can think of.

I don't wear clothes when I type TVF comments, so they were also crawling down my belly and over my legs heading, probably, for the door or the window.

Mostly it was just plain amusing to me and a good 5 minute diversion for me, to rest from 10 hours of Thai today.

Then I could see why sometimes the Farang girls come undone in Thailand.

And then I thought of this tune:

But, like the above cited blogger of ants in Thailand, who says he has ants in his pants,

Can these really hurt us?

And if not, can we just marvel that something that small can both run and fly at the same time?

Can you actually eat these ants? By the way.

If so, I could sort of harvest them, and put them in my tea or, if spicy hot, I could put them in Hot and Sour Soup, (SuanLa Tang).

Do you have any photos of these ants, but over at your house?

Maybe they are unique to Chiang Mai, or something.

And what besides eating might they be good for?

For one, I left some chicken thighs residue on the wooden table outside in the garden last night.

A real greasy mess it was, and I was too tired after Thai study to even touch it.

But this morning, I noticed everything was clean as a whistle!

Surely this must have been the work of either the ants,

Or one of the cats we have roaming around.

If it is the ants and not the cats, then the ants can stay.

Or, maybe the cats will eat the ants. I have seen that happen, too.

[metisdead]

Don't even see the relevance this has for the Pub:

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