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[Canadian anter]

I could only find two pencil lead boxes so I only got 4

[ctantkeeper]

man, that sucks

[AntsMAN]

When my grandmother seen my seen my meal worms, she screamed at the top of her lungs. I didn't know she was scared to death of worms lol

I also had a friend ask me if I have ever eaten my ants, and what do they taste like.

Edited by AntsMAN, July 12 2016 - 5:15 AM.

[Vendayn]

When my grandmother seen my seen my meal worms, she screamed at the top of her lungs. I didn't know she was scared to death of worms lol

I also had a friend ask me if I have ever eaten my ants, and what do they taste like.

When I was younger, and new to ants. I kept Argentine ants (because it was only ant around, and I was young. They were terrible ant farm ants, always escaping and I didn't know proper barriers). Some would get in my mouth somehow, not sure how. I do know they'd be climbing all over me. Well, they tasted really sour and gross...like cleaning liquid had gone in my mouth. 

 

Not sure if every ant tastes like that, but that was my experience with Argentine ants. Never had that "problem" when I got older, when I got better at collecting (and keeping) ants. 

 

Actually wait. I had Solenopsis invicta in my mouth a couple times, and they'd bite me all over (I was really young still). They tasted like Argentine ants.

Edited by Vendayn, July 12 2016 - 9:53 PM.

[Bryansant]

I went anting a couple weeks ago, on a sweltering day in Texas (that's every day recently!), at a local park with a frisbee-golf course. Spent most my time on overgrown trails along the periphery but heading back to my car I walked down one of the trails connecting two tee-offs. Three guys started down the trail as I was overturning some rocks and logs in the side brush and naturally asked, "Did you lose a disc?"

I decided to keep it simple, "No, I'm looking for bugs."

The younger two stopped in their tracks. "You're looking for buds?"

"Haha. No.. Looking for bugs."

"Oh..." 

They kept walking.

As they left, the older gent asked, bemused, "What kind of bugs?"

"Ants."

"Oh..."

...and kept walking.

Edited by Bryansant, July 13 2016 - 7:08 PM.