In emergencies, fire ants get lots of grips to form rafts
Inside look at how insects make instant architecture shows the power of extreme grabbing
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BODY BUILDING Fire ants can join forces to form rafts (shown). They do so by gripping one another with 99 percent of the legs available in the mass of ants, a new study finds.
Courtesy of D. Hu