What goes creep in your East African night? What frightens venomous scorpions into fleeing with their tail between their legs? What can consume a large marsupial (possibly an Almiqui) in two shakes of a lambs tail?
If you answered, Pee-wee Herman or Ernest Worrell for any of the above, you’re a sick sick individual.
The Driver ant is of course, the correct answer. These bitchin’ blind six-legged creatures redefine the rules of the food chain. As I briefly discussed their cousins in my abbreviated ode to MacGyver.
After watching “Killer Ants” on the Discovery Channel today these mofos are in need of a major image make-over as they have many beneficial qualities in addition to their painful poisonous pinchers: they can cook, clean and create carbon-copies of themselves (50,000 no less) all in one rotation of terra firma.
So have you hugged a Formicidae today?
