[pct-l] Tents and Ants: a Cautionary Tale

[Eric Lee]

Robert wrote:
>
> That night I set up the tent and noticed about 50 holes in the tent, 
> each about 2mm in diameter, with a small cascade of live and dead ants 
> coming out of the tent.  The ants had either chewed or stung or burned 
> (with formic acid) holes in the tent, either during that night, or 
> when trapped in the rolled up tent.
>

You're not the only one to report this sort of thing this year, though I've
never heard of it before now.  Train said the same thing here:
http://hiking26.com/2012/07/howdy-from-my-last-california-resupply-town/.  I
don't know what kind of ants they're growing around Burney Falls but they
seem to be nasty.

Eric