#151 – Burned
Posted on July 16, 2012 at 12:00 am by Chris
Chapter: Comic
I never killed ants with a magnifying glass. It seemed too cruel. I did like picking them up and throwing them into spider webs. That was awesome.
Tags: ant, sun, tattooI never killed ants with a magnifying glass. It seemed too cruel. I did like picking them up and throwing them into spider webs. That was awesome.
Tags: ant, sun, tattoo
lol, you missed out with the magnifying glass thing, though the real fun to be had was with grasshoppers, they’d detonate with a satisfying pop when you put them under the glass.
Never did that with bugs. ‘Round here, grashoppers are good bait. If I’m going to kill a grashopper, it’s going to be to kill a fish.
I used to pick up ants and drop them into antlion nests. It was fun to watch nature at work.
I never burned a grasshopper. Catching them and feeding them to chickens, though: that’s fun. Especially when it’s a big grasshopper they can’t swallow in one bite, so they have to run around, playing keep away until they can get it down.
Ants go pop!
I dripped ammonia or bleach on them. It disrupts their pheromone trails, driving them insane as communication breaks down. Like a biological EMP.
I never had a real magnifying glass, or at one that was capable of doing anything. I did however manage to destroy methods that involved lots of acidic substances and fireworks. It… didn’t turn out so well…
Spiders are sometimes actually afraid of the ants. They seem to know there’s always more somewhere, or something. We dropped one on a wolf spider web once, and rather than strike directly, the spider circled it, lunged at it, and did that nightmare-inducing “rear the front legs up to show the fangs” thing. I didn’t know spiders actually did that.
I used to lay out potato chips and sugar, and when the feast commenced, spray a foamy ring of RAID around the feast.
Chemical warfare at its finest!
The list of spiders that aren’t afraid of ants includes: Spiderants, and stupid spiders. Yes spiderants are actually spiders, despite the fact that they were clearly named backwards, because clearly it would have made more sense to name them antspiders. I once saw a spider web with an ant that got itself stuck about halfway across, I didn’t check on it again until about a week later and the spider web was in disarray with numerous insects trapped in it most of them still alive and trying desperately to free themselves, the spider was nowhere to be found. I’m fairly certain the ant ate it, as the ant was not in the web anymore either. In grade 6 we were told to do a report on an insect of our choice, I was going to do ants, but then I realized that there were far more types of ants then I would have time to cover, so being forced to choose just one I chose army ants but I still read about all the other ant types because I read way faster than I write. One of my pet peeves is when people misquote the ant’s strength ratio: ants can lift 200 times their own weight, not just 20 times their own weight. Yes, that’s right, an ant that weighs 0.5 grams can lift 100 grams of weight.