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  • Why the ants in this video kept crawling around an iPhone

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    Mariella Moon
    Mariella Moon
    09.03.2015

    Okay, what we're seeing here (probably) isn't a bizarre ant ritual passed down from generation to generation, hailing the iPhone as their new queen and overlord. The video's description on YouTube claims the insects acted that way, because they were affected by the "electromagnetic wave of an incoming call." University of New England associate professor Nigel Andrew agrees: "[They] have magnetic receptors in their antennae. If they're travelling long distances they use magnetic cues from the earth to know if they are going north, east, south or west."