[FresnoDA]

JJ..This is a silly little example..but...stay with it for a moment..

Last night, our cat was out front...playing with a really large moth...about the size of a Hummingbird...this morning...I went to get the paper...and the moth was on the porch...mostly intact, but deceased...(if moths do that!)

Anyway....this evening, 12 hours later, when we were coming in from Dinner...I observed that a lot of ants were all over the moth..and when I kicked the moth off the porch with my shoe..there were many more ants under the moth...

Point being...the BUG GUY commented that only 1 ant was on little Danielle...just 1...but this scenario I gave on the moth...it goes the opposite way...the ants were increasing...as more and more arrived to engage the moth...

Since there was a significant portion of the body left at the Dehasa Road...with only the hands and face mummified...then many ants would have been present...

If temperature mattered, then there would have been NO ants, correct?

Or...if the body was refrigerated...and it dehydrated from the dehumidification which occurs in a refrigerated environ...then perhaps there was a very dried out corpse, which the insect population found little interest in?

Unscientific..yes...but based upon the moth observation described above...a few more thoughts to ponder

 

FDA

[Krodg]

But Fres, was your moth mummified???