Bollywood actor Aamir Khan who has been missing from cyber space for over two months, has posted on his blog his strange encounter with a colony of ants that bit him en mass while he was sleeping.

"After a long day at work, I went to bed at around 3 a.m. A couple of hours later, deep in sleep I had this vague feeling of being bitten on my ear. Gradually I was being bitten on my stomach, legs, neck.

I was so sleepy that I just kept cursing, scratching, turning and tossing. Finally it got really unbearable, and I kind of woke up to see my bed filled with ants, " Aamir wrote on his blog www.aamirkhan.com Friday.

"There were hundreds of them! Crawling all over and giving me hell. I had to jump under the shower and then went and crashed on my couch, " he added.

Considering that ants swarm around anything that has some sugar level as they feed on it, the actor joked: "I guess they found something really sweet on that bed, and since K (wife Kiran) was out on a night shoot I am assuming it was me."

Aamir also apologised for his uninformed absence from writing regularly on his blog.

"I suppose you all want to know why I have been away so long. Well I'm not sure I can explain. I guess I needed to be by myself for a while. Still, I should have expressed that. My apologies, " the actor wrote.