ants

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_lerctr.org>
Date: Tue Jul 27 11:52:13 2004

>
> A few years back when I was a medical student and calling in sick usually
> meant failing a rotation, I got a bad case of bronchitis while on the ENT
> surgery service and ran a fever of 102 F. Naturally, you have to be
> unresponsive and on a ventilator to get off sick (and even then you may
> have to make up the work), so I went in anyway after coughing up half a
> lung's worth of brownish-red phlegm in the sink (and since I was ill and
> fogged on cough medicine, I forgot to wash it down).
>
> That afternoon, I returned to find a trail of ants leading up to the
> loogie in the sink, and a ring of dead ants around it who had tried to
> eat the ball of sputum, failed, and died.

Ants have been known to go after other bodily fluids as well, with varying
results....
Received on Tue Jul 27 2004 - 11:52:13 BST