Ants… Lots of ants…

Alright, warning and all that: if you have a phobia of ants or crawling things, maybe you shouldn’t stay here… (I guess the top picture was a clear warning)

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Is everybody still here fine with what is about to show up on your screen?

Alright.

This was a couple of years ago in France, while on a walk in a nature park in my hometown.

As it was in March and one of the first somewhat warm days of the year, did the whole colony wake up from hibernating at once and want some fresh air?

That’s the only explanation I could come up with.

Well, I could have googled it before typing this.

Let’s see:

The only thing I found that could work would be colony expansion. It’s not the whole colony, but just a part of it, and it’s moving to another location nearby. Except that they were stationary. Or did they find the new location and were waiting to be able to enter the new tunnels or something like that?

If anyone has a good idea of what was happening, I’m all ears.