Eating Bugs and other Creepy Crawlies

Guybrush · 02-04-2012, 08:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Conan

Hmm, so your buddy would eat them alive? I don't know if I could do that if they could sting me. We have mostly black ants and of course, the invasive fire ant pests here in the U.S. South, both of which hurt like hell when stung. We also get carpenter ants which are quite large, but I've never tried eating them.

You don't know how lucky you are, tore, to not have fire ants where you live. You can't even have a picnic or lay in the grass in the state of Florida without being swarmed by the nasty little things.

He eats them alive, yeah. Most ants in Norway are not able to do you much damage. You notice a little pinch but the actual pain is usually pretty trivial. Here's a pic of me getting bitten by a worker "forest ant".

Way too small to hurt me as you can see. I don't believe these ants have a stinger, but are instead able to spray acid from their abdomen .. I'm not sure if that also goes for the sugar ants, but I can't remember them doing anything but nibbling.

We do have a few species of small, reddish ants which, despite being tiny, do seem to have a bit of a stinger .. If they sting you, it's a bit like getting stung by the bumble bees we have here. It'll hurt (you'll definetly feel it when it gets you) and may be irritated for a few hours after, but they're otherwise harmless. I guess they're a bit like your fire ants, but are fortunately quite rare. I can only remember getting stung once.