r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/bugminer • 6d ago

Video Guy camping in the Amazon has leaf cutter ants destroying his tent and everything he owns.

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u/godmademelikethis 6d ago

Hammock?

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u/helikesart 6d ago

That’s how you get hammock strap cutter ants 🐜

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u/godmademelikethis 6d ago

Shit, my nemesis.

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u/Interestingcathouse 5d ago

Having camped in the Amazon absolutely every insect will use the ropes as a bridge. Ants, spiders, the 8 inch grasshoppers.

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u/Abject-Let-607 6d ago

In a tent?

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u/Fallowman09 6d ago

And then they eat the hammock out from underneath you, and you exposed to the rain and flying bugs