Southern Brazil Conviction Ants

Hi, Aaron here from the Leiningen plantation in southern Brazil. We are witnessing, first hand, the world’s largest army attempt to take on 400+ men armed with farm supplies and tools, ANTS! Every few years, an ant colony will expand outside its normal exploring territory and move all the way across South America. This colony arises other colonies along the way and builds their army of mass destruction. This swarm can grow up to 2 miles wide, and 10 miles long. That’s 20 square miles!! This means that roughly 80.3 BILLION ants make up this swarm!
Hello all. It has been 24 hours since my last report. This is day 2 of the Man vs. Nature war. So far, the ants have not gotten inside the compound, the housing buildings atop a hill, only past the water moats in the far edges of the plantation. And they got across on leaves! We can actually see the barren lands behind the swarm. Apparently, these ants are so powerful, they will eat everything of an organic compound, including trees and full grown animals such as cattle and horses. Mr. Leiningen has …show more content…
Early last night the ant swarm reached the house and Mr. Leiningen lit the ditches. The first run of the oil lasted roughly 6 hours before we had to go out and refill the ditches. This was quite the task due to the heat of the already burning fire, but also the ravenous hoard of face-eaters just 5 feet opposite of us. We filled the ditch, retreated back within the compound, and waited patiently for the herd to die away, however it did not. After the last of the oil started to burn off, Mr. Leiningen ordered his men to start throwing all of the wooden items within the compound over the fence to keep the flames going. Then Mr. Leiningen put of an outfit similar to a beekeeper’s outfit and soaked it with the remaining pints of oil. He said the oil would keep the ants off of him long enough to reach the dam. He was going to blow the dam, flooding his plantation, and washing the evil menace