Today, I sprayed down some ants in my house. In the sea of ant corpses was a single living ant seemingly cradling a dead one in its arms. I'm convinced I just became the villain in an epic tragedy. Now I have to live with my ant problem because I can't bear to tear another family apart. FML
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Today, I saw a wasp on the ground, apparently injured and unable to fly. It was being mobbed by ants and looked certain to die, so I stamped on the ants to save its life. At this point it sprung up, stung me, then flew off. FML
Today, I realized why my sister refuses to let me clean her side of the room. She's secretly been trying to revive dead ants. FML
Today, I came home after a long day at work, and decided to tidy up a bit before finally settling down to relax. I went to take the garbage out, when the bag split and out fell the trash along with hundreds of tiny red ants. FML
Today, while trying to take my Christmas tree down, I learned that at some point during the last few weeks, it became home to a colony of green ants. I'm now covered in bites and terrified to go anywhere near it. FML
Today, despite putting all the food in the fridge, taking all the rubbish outside, cleaning the house top to bottom and setting up bait, we're still dealing with a bloody huge ant problem. I've now got a rash all over from being bitten while I sleep. FML
Today, I found thousands of ants in a secret nest in an unused corner of my apartment. They were feeding on the baking mix I forgot in a box from moving in two months ago, and the queen has been laying her eggs on my wireless router. FML
Today, I kept finding ants crawling all over my face. After a while, I realized that they were all coming from my beard. I have had a population of ants living in my beard. FML
Today, after losing a battle with ants in my apartment, I just pulled one off that was biting me in the vagina. FML
Today, I walked outside my house to find my father in nothing but his underwear, spraying ants with ant-killer, laughing like a maniac and screaming, "Die bitches! Die!" FML
Today, I saw a dead ant. It made me think about how brief and fragile life is, why we're all here, and whether it has a point. It was a piece of lint. FML
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FutureMatty 24
More then cradling it, it was more likely trying to carry it to eat it lol
anmolm97 12
ant issues?
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anmolm97 12
ant issues?
Soniye 14
RIP Mr./Mrs. Ant -Here lie the body's of ants sprayed to death. Vowing to take revenge on Op's mind!
maniaccy 8
They're ants. Step on them.
Soniye 14
And you're human someone should also step on you.
Caitie_kid 8
You could just use cinnamon... It won't kill them, they just hate it. Got rid of my ant problem!
1PersonIsMyWorld 22
Ya op... my first reaction was "aww." U have a soft heart..but I wouldn't live with ants in my house (or any bug on that matter)...try the cinnamon idea...or look up other methods to repel them.
NeatNit 32
Caitie (39), are you serious? it's THAT simple?!
cristy91 33
All ants in the colony are ladies, so what you saw wasn't a torn "family" with a mom and a dad, but a colony that underwent partial/total destruction. Unless you killed the queen, though, you're most likely still going to have a problem. Also, if it will make you feel better, that little lonely ant was probably just doing nature's instinct and cleaning up the mess. If you still feel bad, do try the cinnamon as was commented earlier, it may work!
icryevrytime 7
So the ants are in some weird lesbian convent thing, 76?
doctorhook86 24
#87 Male ants are called "drones", and their only purpose is to breed with the queen and then die--they don't do anything else. Any ants you ever find roaming around outside of the nest are almost always female. (This goes ditto for bees and wasps, too.)
TheCanucklehead 22
*Yeah, that's right. Stand by* **Snipers in position** *Ready...FIRE* Run op. run
Katy326 10
Totally irrelevant to the conversation, but I love your pic 113. Punk is one of my favorites.
GetOffMyLevel 8
Lesbian ants.
Summoner_T3L 15
132, i thought you were gonna try and go the "Lesbiants" route im disappointed
negb 30
I think OP should continue to spray them...what if they decide to take revenge?!!!!
kasuke06 5
Feeling guilty? Then learn your lesson. No survivors next time, Can't be breaking up a family that doesn't exist anymore.
fakedsincerity 32
a soft heart, or mental problems...
porp1 4
In other news, Disney is making another insect movie staring Demi Levato, Johnny Depp, and OP.
ohcheriecherie 20
98- I really identify with ants for that reason. like, why can't my sex slaves just dry up and die after we do it? ants have it all together
Toasty283 8
Not sure if I should like, dislike, or just run from 194...
JtPv 14
73- And Bay leaves...bay leaves work wonders...
webbface 25
Lol so you sprayed and watched them die. Haha.
webbface 25
I cannot lie, I sprayed ants in my back yard and watched them. I watched several climb up a little weed and died. I thought it was pretty interesting. But I still spray them often.
bingbongbingbong 11
Thats sadistic , but i love it
rocker_chick105 31
That's a cool story. Ever thought of writing a book?
iBanana 17
I figured I'd make a comment because the above ones are getting buried and that ant' cool. Here I was, thinking I was the only one that felt sympathetic to things like ants. One time at a Christmas tree farm, there was 1 poor little tree left after Christmas was over and I felt so bad for that little tree that I bought it just to ease my guilty conscience.
SrakaSrakasta 20
O god I do stuff like this too. For example I could never throw away a stuffed animal ;_;
Zimmington 21
My dad told me I needed help when I was younger because he saw me picking the wings off of "Princess" ants
kenjenkei 32
@84....Phoebe Buffay, is that you?
Martinez0285 28
its gotta be Phoebe
Caitie_kid 8
That's pretty f-ed up that you'd spray ants that are just chilling outside.... In their own environment.
stoych 19
Karma my friend. Good things will come to you. (although I'm still patiently waiting for mine, I'm sure it will happen!)
stoych 19
That was a response to #84 btw
kallemyster 6
This is possibly one of the worst FMLs I've read.
alshygirl 14
It's so sad. I pictured the ant that was cradling the other ant to be looking up at OP with tears in his or her eyes
MidnaLink 33
I pictured a raid commercial aftermath going on in here.
Sinistra_Blue 12
I think this FML should have the Sarah McLaughlin song playing in the background that they play in the pet shelter ads. "Innn the aaaarrmms of an Angel."
blackzi11a 7
I want to see this FML illustrated. For maximum drama. This needs to be illustrated.
crystyx3 9
its amazing the amount of shit fmls that get posted lately
jessBeAqueen 13
he was probably listening to the little ants last dying wishes and vowing revenge. good luck op.
AppleJuiceBox 10
One single tear dropping down?
TheLittleBear 19
This is one of the saddest FML's I've ever seen. I clearly saw "Antz" at an impressionable age.
FutureMatty 24
More then cradling it, it was more likely trying to carry it to eat it lol
Ameel_fml 19
I don't know much about ants beyond the few ant farms I had when I was little, but I did notice they never seemed to eat the bodies of their friends. :(
bandeek 30
I stepped on an ant yesterday and watched like four other ants come over and eat it. It was disgusting and fascinating at the same time
Wowxoxo 17
I read that ants carry away dead ones to a burial area because if an ant died the colony doesn't want a disease to spread rampant..
fuckedPriceless 17
Ants don't eat the bodies. If you had an ant farm you would also notice that they DO carry the bodies, but not to eat them. It is simply to move them elsewhere so that they can decompose away from the living.
Ameel_fml 19
I never said they didn't carry the bodies away. I said they didn't eat them. Dunno why I got thumbed down for that. I thought it was fair point to make. People (just look at some of the comments here) assume insects are just dumb little things... but they have hierarchies, and family systems, and all sorts of cool little instincts and rules (like not eating their dead). Hell, certain types of ants have even been known to keep other insects inside the nest so they can breed/milk them (so they have a constant food source). Insects are pretty cool.
TheNewMirage 10
Did you hear him scream too?
SURIUHSLEEDOH 4
Dont worry it was most probably carrying that body to eat it later. Ants are heartless, vile creatures.
iAlissa 34
I had no idea you were the ant behavioral specialist
Jelbeztok 17
ants dont eat their dead.
people_annoy_me 23
Yeah #8 , you would know wouldn't you...
Storvolleng 28
antanic
domking1315 20
There was no boat...
1PersonIsMyWorld 22
I think they meant "satanic"
RodzillaX 30
Just face it OP you're a monster. Once you've come to terms with that you can continue on in life as a happy ant murdering psychopath.
NoFlippinWai 24
Like Christian Bale in American Psycho, only he killed humans... for fun. In his head.
cristy91 33
I thought the point of the movie was in the world you must act a certain way and fit a social standard, making everyone the same person. Look at the scene with the business cards. This congruency leads people to simply not have a clue that things outside the mold, even such gruesome things as murders. The movie was more about the shallowness of society than anything. At least that's my opinion of it.
GoodLookingGeese 10
Yeah just wait & watch till someone says "it's just humans"
HeyHeyFishFillet 34
Whenever you feel something on you but you can't see it, or don't know what it is...just know those are the spirits of the ants. They will forever haunt your life for what you did to them.
Voij 16
You know this saying, "You'll always live on in my heart"? It presents an easy solution for OP's problem, in that he just has to kill every ant that ever knew one of the previous victims. If you kill all the members of a civilization, then noone will be left to remember or attempt retaliation.