Ant Invaders

Ants are tiny foreign invaders who rely on the hammer of military formations to enter our homes and consume our precious table scraps. If ants abandoned their military first policy, would we be as bothered by their visits to carry off our leftovers, or is their goose-stepping lines of workers what really ticks us off. Ants march into our homes like platoons of plundering, starving soldiers. They take our culinary treasure, consume our crumbs and pillage our pantries. Undeterred by geography or gravity they disregard our homestead boundaries, pouring over our scraps, entering at will in highly organized legions to overtake our kitchen work spaces.

Anyone who lives near dirt knows the dread of finding one ant scout. The insect explorer unto itself (as long as it is not one of the more vicious forms of ant, such as carpenter or fire ant) is as harmless as they are small. It is their meaning that most people take offence to. One itty-bitty, tiny-weeny ant will follow their scent track back to the colony and inform every ant they encounter along the way and inside of the bounty waiting on a counter or in a garbage can. Together, following the battle plan map of scent markings, they trudge along their way, in perfect rows and seemingly unfettered by physics, along the path set by the scout to consume, conquer or carry any speck of food that is less that 200 percent of their body weight.