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Bernard Suits, a philosopher who focused on sports, disagreed, and he drew on Aesop’s fable of the ant and the grasshopper in his inventive rebuttal.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 11, 2026

When finished, the harvester ant would shake the smaller ants off, sometimes so forcefully that she flipped onto her back before quickly moving away.

From Science Daily • Apr. 14, 2026

I was sitting on a fire ant hill.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Also known as Messor cephalotes, these ants are native to East Africa and known for their distinctive seed-gathering behaviour making them popular with ant collectors.

From BBC • Mar. 28, 2026

He bored a small hole in the closed end of the shell, fastened a thread to an ant, introduced the ant into the hole, and then closed it.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton