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I recently bought a cheap endoscope camera from eBay that connects to a laptop for recording. Today, I used the camera and laptop to explore the inside of a bull ant nest. These ants belong to the Myrmecia genus and are also known as bulldog ants, inch ants and jumper ants. Sorry about the shakey video but it's really hard to hold these sort of cameras steady.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu3k5dnAhCk&feature=youtu.be
As expected, these ants were super aggressive. At least 6 to 8 of them were clinging to the long lens tube as I was sticking it down various burrows in the nest. I was stung twice but not during recording. They weren't only attacking the camera. They were also crawling all over the laptop, the laptop bag and my backpack, biting and stinging. It took ages to get rid of them and it was during my attempts to remove them that I got stung. I was grabbing clumps of long grass and trying to brush them off.
This will definitely be the one and only time I stick an endoscope camera down a bull ant nest. Never again!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu3k5dnAhCk&feature=youtu.be
As expected, these ants were super aggressive. At least 6 to 8 of them were clinging to the long lens tube as I was sticking it down various burrows in the nest. I was stung twice but not during recording. They weren't only attacking the camera. They were also crawling all over the laptop, the laptop bag and my backpack, biting and stinging. It took ages to get rid of them and it was during my attempts to remove them that I got stung. I was grabbing clumps of long grass and trying to brush them off.
This will definitely be the one and only time I stick an endoscope camera down a bull ant nest. Never again!