An open list of 26 words by hernesheir.
- earwig was added by hernesheir and appears on 15 other lists
- lacewing was added by hernesheir and appears on 7 other lists
- sugar was added by hernesheir and appears on 77 other lists
- catfood crumbs was added by hernesheir and appears on just this list
- leaf cuttings was added by hernesheir and appears on just this list
- grasshopper was added by hernesheir and appears on 18 other lists
- spider was added by hernesheir and appears on 33 other lists
- katydid was added by hernesheir and appears on 25 other lists
- caterpillar was added by PossibleUnderscore and appears on 32 other lists
- moth was added by hernesheir and appears on 27 other lists
- butterfly was added by hernesheir and appears on 48 other lists
- dirt was added by ruzuzu and appears on 31 other lists
- paper wasp was added by ruzuzu and appears on 2 other lists
- toenail parings was added by hernesheir and appears on just this list
- sand was added by hernesheir and appears on 52 other lists
- dead ants was added by ruzuzu and appears on just this list
- beetle was added by hernesheir and appears on 30 other lists
- wasp was added by hernesheir and appears on 24 other lists
- bee was added by hernesheir and appears on 49 other lists
- bacon bits was added by hernesheir and appears on 1 other list
- gribenes was added by hernesheir and appears on 1 other list
- frog was added by bilby and appears on 42 other lists
- cockroach was added by hernesheir and appears on 7 other lists
- live ants was added by Telofy and appears on just this list
- 1 GB microSD was added by Telofy and appears on just this list
- bread crumbs was added by gulyasrobi and appears on 1 other list
deinonychus Wow! I wish I had something to put on this list... (Will keep my eyes open from now on.) Aug 15, 2012
Telofy For more inspiration, see Apache Ant. Mar 28, 2011
reesetee Pants dancing. Mar 26, 2011
ruzuzu firehouse pants Mar 11, 2011
hernesheir Fire pants. Mar 11, 2011
ruzuzu Pants on fire. Mar 11, 2011
bilby Ants in pants. Mar 11, 2011
hernesheir Biting fire ants can move a bare-footed person or bare-handed gardner to suddenly dance, utter profanities, and generally run around like a beheaded chicken while doing so. The modern, temporary, exotic-invasive-induced version of ergotism. Mar 10, 2011
hernesheir My pant's cuffs keep belittling me because my inseam length doesn't match up to any of the mass-produced pants patterns. Bless the "alterations" shops. Mar 10, 2011
dontcry I hate when my pants talk. They always tell on me. Mar 10, 2011
ruzuzu Thanks, hh. I just went over there and added talking trousers. Mar 10, 2011
hernesheir Hey, Panvocalic Pants are nice, and you could talk to those, 'zuzu. I would. Mar 10, 2011
yarb Then why not get some nice ones? Mar 10, 2011
ruzuzu They're just pants. Mar 10, 2011
yarb I would, and I would hazard a guess that from time to time you chat with your pants. Mar 10, 2011
ruzuzu I talk to my plants, too. Would you accuse me of plant-thropomorphism? Mar 10, 2011
yarb What a charming story. But talking to them? That's ant-thropomorphism. Mar 10, 2011
ruzuzu One chilly spring morning I was hacking through some rose bushes in order to get cages around the peonies--it was that magic moment after the peonies had started to bud but before they knocked themselves over with their blossoms. The ants had been working away at the wax on the buds for days, but that morning my little helpers were barely moving. I wondered whether they were affected by the cold, so I got very close and just started to talk to them--asking how things were going, saying hello. My warm breath seemed to be enough to speed the ants up until they marched away and got cold again. I figured the sun would eventually free them--they reminded me of the fairy-tale servants who were unlucky enough to have been in the castle when Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger. Mar 10, 2011
yarb I agree, PU, and perhaps this is the right time to insert a link to my ants and men list. Mar 10, 2011
PossibleUnderscore I love ants. They're such incredible little things. Mar 10, 2011
hernesheir Ants vs. cockroaches; the making of a Pixar movie. Mar 10, 2011
yarb But the cockroaches will slaughter the ants when it comes to a rumble. Mar 10, 2011
hernesheir Ants will be among those organisms that inherit the Earth, long after we humans have killed everything else off. Mar 10, 2011
yarb As opposed to unelapsed time?
(I am enjoying the list and comments, though). Mar 10, 2011
bilby Around here, elapsed time from death of anything to arrival of ants is usually less than half an hour if outside. Bit longer in the unnatural environment of houses. Mar 9, 2011
hernesheir A friend of mine lived for a couple of years in the Marshall Islands. He and his friend would create a tiny sugar mountain in their dwelling, and then wager on how long it would take the ants to haul away all the sugar. Things contemplated and done on extended island time might baffle some of us. Mar 9, 2011
hernesheir "After the Indian camp has broken up and moved away, many Indian beads can usually be found on the outside of the anthills." Ants Ornamenting Their Homes, St. Nicholas: a Monthly Magazine for Boys and Girls, Volume 27, Part 1, p. 549, 1900. Mar 8, 2011
hernesheir Regarding the fossil evidence of dinosaur-age mammals found in anthills: "It has been found that in addition to ordinary sand-grains certain of the anthills also contain fossils, tiny teeth, bone fragments, and in rare instances perfect bones that the ants had unconsciously collected and have been the source of much of our knowledge of smaller forms which were contemporaneous with the larger reptiles." - Popular Science Monthly, September, 1915, p. 241. Mar 8, 2011
hernesheir I once monitored a colony of fire ants in Florida while they buried a dead mole that they could not move, by systematically excavating grains of sand and soil beneath it and depositing these over it. The mole slowly sunk into the ground and disappeared. I didn't return to excavate and ascertain the condition of the bones or teeth, or to see if they survived. Mar 8, 2011