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Have you checked your observatory lately?
On Friday night I went into the observatory for a session after the rain we had in SE Qld. At the end of the session I heard a strange noise and couldn't work out what it was. I had apparently disturbed a nest of ants that have made their home behind some posters to be get out of rain. The sound i heard was tens of thousands ants moving over the posters.
Today I check a metal cabinet I have in the observatory, when I open the door all I could see was a moving mass. Think of a bad B grade movie. Absolutely everything was covered by hunderds of thousands of ants. After the biology war had died down, it took me 3 hours to clean up the mess.
Luckily the ants didn't get into the scope and thankfuly I don't keep the computers or cameras in the observatory.
Brendan
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