Monday, July 21, 2008

Danger for ants

Ruby has a thing for bugs, especially ants. She loves to pick them up and let them crawl all over her. She has no fear. Ruby finds these little critters fascinating. She watches them run around like most kids watch TV. Ruby "plays" with the ants and they usually end up less mobile than when she found them. On Saturday she wanted to go outside, so she said, "Mom, let's go find some ants!" Fun. She likes other bugs too, so we have to keep an eye on her or she will try to pick up a spider or something. Maybe she will become an entomologist someday.



We found this black ant being attacked by tiny ants on our patio. Pretty interesting to watch. And a little bit scary.



Andy took a bunch of pictures while keeping Ruby at a safe distance.
(This black ant is the same size as the one on her shirt in the picture above, the red ants are like grains of sand.) After watching the big black ant get beat up, Andy sprayed the gang of little
mean ants with bug spray. We don't want Ruby playing with those ones.


1 comments:

Anonymous said...

YIKES! That is a crazy ant attack picture! I'm glad Ruby befriended the nice one and not the little bullies!