Particularly when it rains fairly heavily. I mean their colonies are just a network of unground tunnels. One would assume they’d just fill with water.
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The holes they breathe through are smaller than water can get into due to its surface tension.
If you’ve noticed, ant hills tend to “pop up” after a rain. The vast majority of the ant colony is underground but when it rains they move upwards to prevent the colony from becoming inundated.
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