{"id":34,"date":"2009-05-17T11:24:05","date_gmt":"2009-05-17T11:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/?p=34"},"modified":"2009-05-17T11:24:05","modified_gmt":"2009-05-17T11:24:05","slug":"flying-ants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/?p=34","title":{"rendered":"Flying Ants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rainy season started in Chiang Mai. It has rained every day the last week. In the evening after the rain stops the flying ants come out for the &quot;light party&quot; looking for a girl. Yeah right they are all male. Then after a short time partying they drop to the floor and die of exhaustion. What a life!&#0160;<\/p>\n<div>It&#39;s on me next day to clean up the mess. I feel like the bartender who has to throw the drunks out after hours. I just throw them over the wall after the birds have feasted on them.&#0160;<\/div>\n<div>To be honest I also tasted some over the years. Thai people fry them and it them with some fish sauce&#8230;&#8230; yummy&#8230;. they are high on proteins. I cannot really warm up those bugs as a snack, but perhaps I should dip them in chocolate next time.<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>Here are some pictures:<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.questasia.org\/.a\/6a00d83454885d69e20115708e2ceb970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P5170004\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d83454885d69e20115708e2ceb970b \" src=\"http:\/\/www.questasia.org\/.a\/6a00d83454885d69e20115708e2ceb970b-500wi\" title=\"P5170004\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.questasia.org\/.a\/6a00d83454885d69e20115708e2cfa970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P5170006\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d83454885d69e20115708e2cfa970b \" src=\"http:\/\/www.questasia.org\/.a\/6a00d83454885d69e20115708e2cfa970b-500wi\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.questasia.org\/.a\/6a00d83454885d69e201156f983373970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"P5170001\" class=\"at-xid-6a00d83454885d69e201156f983373970c \" src=\"http:\/\/www.questasia.org\/.a\/6a00d83454885d69e201156f983373970c-500wi\" \/><\/a> <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainy season started in Chiang Mai. It has rained every day the last week. In the evening after the rain stops the flying ants come out for the &quot;light party&quot; looking for a girl. Yeah right they are all male. Then after a short time partying they drop to the floor and die of exhaustion.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-thailand","category-nature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philsquest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}