Army Ants
(专辑: Orphans: Disc 3 - Bastards - 2006)
The
Whirligig Beetles are wary and fast with an organ to detect the
ripples. The
Arachnid Moths lay their eggs inside other insects along the
borders of fields or roads in clusters of white cocoons. The
Ribbed Pine Borer is a
longhorn beetle, their antenna's are half the
length of their body and they feed on dead red pine. Robber Flies, with their immobile heads, inject a
paralyzing fluid into their prey that they snatch from life in mid-air. The
Snow Flea's mode of locomotion, strange and odd, with a
spiny tail mechanism with hooks and a
protracted tube from the
abdomen to enable moisture absorption. The
female Praying Mantis devours the
male while they are mating. The
male sometimes continues copulating even after the
female has bitten off his head and part of his upper torso. Every night wasps bite into the
stem of a
plant, lock their mandibles into position, stretch out at right angles to the
stem and, with legs dangling, they fall asleep. If one places a
minute amount of liquor on a
scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death. The
Bombardier Beetle, when disturbed, defends itself by emitting a
series of explosions, sometimes setting off 4
or 5
reports in succession. The
noises sound like miniature popgun blasts and are accompanied by a
cloud of reddish coloured vile smelling fluid. It is commonly known that ants keep slaves. Certain species, the
so-called Sanguinary Ants in particular, will raid the
nests of other ant tribes and kill the
queen and then kidnap many of the
workers. The
workers are brought back to the
captor's hive where they are coerced into performing menial tasks. And as we discussed last semester, the
Army Ants will leave nothing but your bones. Perhaps you've encountered some of these insects in your communities, displaying both their predatory and defense characteristics, while imbedded within the
walls of flesh and passing for, what is most commonly recognized... as human.