Pavement Ants

One
When I bit into this apple, I found a bunch of ants hiding in deep tunnels within.

I tried flushing out the ants with water from a water fountain so that I could eat the apple, but these ants were tenacious in staying in the tunnels, unwilling to budge.

I watched a few strays that have been dislodged from their tunnels by my bites.

After meandering around for a while, they eventually found a tunnel, then immediately plunged in to join the other ants in there, refusing to come back out.

Two

I began to realize what was going on: there must be some kind of party down there.
- I tried to smell the brown parts of the apple near the ant infestation, and detected a faint whiff of alcohol.
  So these tunnels served to collect fluid, and a little fermentation turned the juice into an alcohol-rich cider.
  Those ants were making moonshine and getting drunk in their little wine "cellars"; no wonder I could not dislodge them!


Home	Peter Chen 2.0