14 Metaphors for ants

{84} Horse ants, from [Greek], a horse; and [Greek], an ant. {85a} From [Greek], olus, any kind of herb; and [Greek], penna, a wing. {85b} Millii jaculatores, darters of millet; millet is a kind of small grain.

In India ants become a nuisance: I met with a foraging party of extremely large and well-nourished ones as I entered my bath place one morning.

Instinct works by formulas, which, as it were, make up the animal, so that the ant and the bee are atoms of incarnate constructiveness and acquisitiveness, and nothing else.

Folk means people; a folk, a people: as, "The ants are a people

THE ANT Ants were once men and made their living by tilling the soil.

And when he said: "The ant ... is not a lender!...

ant located in the southern hemisphere was the most remote, but had been filling the Mare Hadriacum, locally known as the Red Sea, for decades.

Like me with freedom eat; An ant is most delightful meat. How bless'd, how envied were our life, Could we but 'scape the poulterer's knife!

Ant, however, looks a little down.

Poisonous ants, biting flies, ticks, wasps, bees were a perpetual torment.

Ant. 'Tis yours, Sir. Guz.

Ant. Beg'd my Life! Guil.

The only ants who come into the house are the minute, harmless, and most useful 'crazy ants,' who run up and down wildly all day, till they find some eatable thing, an atom of bread or a disabled cockroach, of which last, by the by, we have seen hardly any here.

The ants are special pests and some of them can bite with the enthusiastic vigor of beasts many times their size.

14 Metaphors for  ants