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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Top comments
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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Comments (227)
Recon1 11
Welcome to my world. The only thing I feel is recoil though.
SoultheWolf 19
It was probably just trying to carry the ant back home to eat. Ants don't have emotions, they follow their queen's wish without question. And the Queen's demand is to bring food back, no matter what it is. You can find ants bringing back other dead insects and bugs around sometimes. Besides, they back thousands of babies a day, so killing a few isn't going to do much difference.
boycrazy30007 12
It was eating the dead and. Eating not cradling. Or taking it back to be eaten by the queen.
BriannaMGK 15
You're a pussy! Kill the damn ants!
EvilLittleMan 23
Next time just use your shoes. Go Go Godzilla !
BeepBeepSwerve 9
This probably wouldn't be an fml if it were a cockroach instead.
FrankHotpants 31
Sounds like a new Pixar movie.
ReachForMe 5
Ants don't have families OP... There's the queen that has the babies and the rest are just servants or slaves.
havahnegila 22
Try boric acid. They'll go back to their ant hill to die and you only have to do it once. Won't see a thing
nurchok 15
See, ants (along with bees and some other insects that have the same "family" hierarchy) will keep the deceased if the latter does not smell dead. Similarly, they'll kick out a live one if it does (smell dead). So whatever you sprayed must've changed some chemistry. When I had ants, I didn't fight them, I just put a teaspoon of honey on the floor near their hole and in a couple hours there was no ants and no honey (not even a sticky spot on the floor where the honey was).