How to make ants commit suicide by going into a 'spiral of death' (which doesn't always go ant-iclock-wise) By TED THORNHILL. Published: 12:47 EDT, 23 March 2012 | Updated: 05:10 EDT, 24 March 2012 ...

The spiral of death can begin with just one ant. If one ant is being followed by a group of ants, but she somehow ends up doubling back, the loop cycle is created.

As creepy as it sounds, the ant spiral of death is deadly only to the ants involved in it. The ants circle and circle into one heaving vortex until they drop dead from exhaustion. Bad things can ...

There's a price for blindly following those in front of you. Take army ants for instance. These aggressive insects have a dangerous tendency to commit mass suicide just because they're following ...

Watch A Group Of Army Ants Form A ‘Spiral Of Death’ Around A Vibrating iPhone. by: Aaron Pruner September 3, 2015. Nature is f*cking weird, man.

Ants really do die in a dizzying spiral. Did you fall for the Instagram video showing an army of ants trapped in a death spiral to the hypnotic riffs of AC/DC?. If so, you weren’t alone.

It’s called ant mills or ant death spirals. I was learning about this at the same time as the 2016 elections, which for a lot of Americans was a wake-up call that social media is doing something.

A phenomenon where army ants follow each other in circles, sometimes until they die — and thus known as an “ant death spiral” — was captured on camera at a university in Venezuela ...

The spiral of death can begin with just one ant. If one ant is being followed by a group of ants, but she somehow ends up doubling back, the loop cycle is created.