I have a sort of brick shelf outside my back door. It’s formed by the chimney. I have a light above the “shelf” that comes on automatically when it gets dark. Sometimes I set things on the shelf, such as my sunglasses or a garden tool, during the day. But at night, the ants overtake it. I guess they are attracted to the light. I don’t really mind ants, although I don’t really want them in my house or crawling on me. Last night I noticed something different. The ants were there, but there were also some other bugs. I don’t like bugs much, especially the kind that were there with the ants. They bite, and they’re creepy crawly. They also fly. They’re about 100 or so times as big as the ants that were out there, but the ants were totally taking them down. Like I said, I don’t like them but watching it was really kind of horrifying. They were on their backs with their little legs flailing around, totally covered with ants. It was awful to look at, but I couldn’t look away. Were they panicking, or in pain, or was it all just an instinctual reaction? Is there such a thing as insect psychology???? I went back out to look today, and there were three dead bugs. There were five or six struggling against the ants last night. Did the others get away or did the ants drag them off?

I really don’t normally spend much time thinking about bugs. Nature will run its course, but I’m thinking about spraying the whole area with Raid - a few ants or other bugs might get sacrificed, but maybe the rest of them will go somewhere else where I won’t have to see all that bug violence!