"Army Ants" lyrics
The whirligig beetles are wary and fast with an organ to detect the ripples
The arachnid moths lay their eggs inside other insects along the borders of fields or roads in clusters of white cocoons
The ribbed pine borer is a longhorn beetle, their antennas are half the length of their body and they feed on dead red pine
Robber flies, with their immobile heads, inject a paralyzing fluid into their prey that they snatch from life in mid-air
The snow flea's mode of locomotion, strange and odd, with a spiny tail mechanism with hooks and a protracted tube from the abdomen to enable moisture absorption
The female praying mantis devours the male while they are mating
The male sometimes continues copulating even after the female has bitten off his head and part of his upper torso
Every night wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem and, with legs dangling, they fall asleep
If one places a minute amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death
The bombardier beetle, when disturbed, defends itself by emitting a series of explosions, sometimes setting off 4 or 5 reports in succession
The noises sound like miniature popgun blasts and are accompanied by a cloud of reddish-coloured vile-smelling fluid
It is commonly known that ants keep slaves
Certain species, the so-called sanguinary ants, in particular, will raid the nests of other ant tribes and kill the queen and then kidnap many of the workers
The workers are brought back to the captors' hive where they are coerced into performing menial tasks
And as we discussed last semester, the army ants will leave nothing but your bones
Perhaps you've encountered some of these insects in your communities, displaying both their predatory and defense characteristics, while embedded within the walls of flesh and passing for what is most-commonly recognized... as human
The arachnid moths lay their eggs inside other insects along the borders of fields or roads in clusters of white cocoons
The ribbed pine borer is a longhorn beetle, their antennas are half the length of their body and they feed on dead red pine
Robber flies, with their immobile heads, inject a paralyzing fluid into their prey that they snatch from life in mid-air
The snow flea's mode of locomotion, strange and odd, with a spiny tail mechanism with hooks and a protracted tube from the abdomen to enable moisture absorption
The female praying mantis devours the male while they are mating
The male sometimes continues copulating even after the female has bitten off his head and part of his upper torso
Every night wasps bite into the stem of a plant, lock their mandibles into position, stretch out at right angles to the stem and, with legs dangling, they fall asleep
If one places a minute amount of liquor on a scorpion, it will instantly go mad and sting itself to death
The bombardier beetle, when disturbed, defends itself by emitting a series of explosions, sometimes setting off 4 or 5 reports in succession
The noises sound like miniature popgun blasts and are accompanied by a cloud of reddish-coloured vile-smelling fluid
It is commonly known that ants keep slaves
Certain species, the so-called sanguinary ants, in particular, will raid the nests of other ant tribes and kill the queen and then kidnap many of the workers
The workers are brought back to the captors' hive where they are coerced into performing menial tasks
And as we discussed last semester, the army ants will leave nothing but your bones
Perhaps you've encountered some of these insects in your communities, displaying both their predatory and defense characteristics, while embedded within the walls of flesh and passing for what is most-commonly recognized... as human
