So much fun you must have had there but for the bugs.
About your hand, did you not purchase the reppellent? Or did you not use them?
Those ants are are ten ( 10) by the way. Two may probably be just resting. If you checked latter, they may probably have gotten back to work
We purchased the repellant after a few days here, but the bugs had already bitten us by that point in time.
As for the ants, I was just counting the ones who were actually touching the fly at the moment of the picture. You're probably right about them just resting before getting back to work. I suppose ants probably need rest, just like us humans :)
Jordan