When I was a kid I
fed the ants that came up the crack in the driveway. Not red ones, black ones. I gave them crumbs for a while, then got ambitious and brought them about two teaspoons worth of jam. It took them two days to eat (or gather, I guess) all of it, and then the ants disappeared. I kept checking on them and they were gone for a while....perhaps 10 days?....and then suddenly, there were lots and lots of them coming out of many different cracks. I wonder how many ant babies I was responsible for. Thousands? Hundreds of thousands?
At least those ants never bothered us. Perhaps I should have bought an ant farm.
I never killed bugs for fun, except the really big scary shiny buzzing flying beetles. And that was self-defense - enjoyable self-defense, but self-defense nonetheless.
