Looking through the lenses of awana (tejer, to weave, in Kichwa), rain ants cross others’ lives, and when it rains, they cross each other’s legs, interlocking their feet together, to weave themselves as shelters. The ants’ chemical receptors and tactile abilities are well adapted to read the intricate materiality, the entanglements and irregularities, of the organisms and places of the Sarayaku rainforest. Tamya añanku become the places they inhabit. They become territory. A decomposing palm tree in Shiwakucha, is held in place, stitched together by ant bodies. At dusk the ants progressively began migrating to a new site. When the ants left, the barks of the palm tree fell apart.