The ants were crawling all over him. Their bites stung deep into his flesh, the pain floated through his veins, etching him from within.
Nooo! Get them off me! Aaaaahhh!
Everyone else was screaming the same way. There was no one to help. No escape.
A species of ants had started appearing around the globe. It had it’s origin in South America, but it was seen everywhere. It had been spreading with the planes, it seemed. Somehow the species was getting attracted to human transport.
They seemed to adapt well to almost any climate. Everywhere they were reproducing at a high speed. They invaded houses and trees. Soon the situation was declared a global crisis, but it was too late.
The ants had a new kind of acid. It seemed to be invented, not evolved. The ants shoved no other signs of elevated intelligence. They were just ants. Ants with a new invention. A new way of surviving.
One day they attacked. Everywhere at once.
He was lying on the floor. The strong acid was destroying his internal organs. The pain started withering away with everything else.
Some called it a war, but it was a massacre. Mankind was no longer the dominant species of this world. Humans were once again on the edge of extinction.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/weve-been-looking-at-ant-intelligence-the-wrong-way/
Fictionspawn 
And I just watched “Ant-Man” last night and thought the ants were cute.
Nature is sure out to get human beings lately.
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Cute or not, if they care as little about us as we do about them we would be in trouble if they all attacked, especially with new weapons. Ant-man gets better along with them:) One of the links is about insect intelligence, it’s quite an interesting subject.
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Gruesome. Reminds me of “Leiningen Versus the Ants” by Carl Stephenson.
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Thank you for commenting. I didn’t know of it, just checked it out on Wikipedia now. Sounds interesting, I’ll see if I find it in the library. Hardly read things on paper anymore, something must be done.
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Haha yeah, something must! There’s also an old radio episode of CBS Escape of it, a 30 minute dramatisation you can listen to online. It’s from the 1940s, really good series.
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… and that was probably the end of my reading the story on paper plan. I’ll check it out, thanks.
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Great short story man. Absolutely chilling stuff, and ants are annoying as they are now.
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Haha! Imagine having these in your kitchen. Thank you.
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You just whipped me back to Snakes on a Plane
Great piece!
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Thank you! Maybe Ants on a Plane could be interesting;)
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And absolutely terrifying in 3D 🙂
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Ah, how frail we are, and how wide the gaps we leave in our defences!
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Some things are just too big for us to manage. Or small.
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This was so great! And by ‘great’ I mean it is terrifying reminder that the balance of our world could be tipped at any time and that our species is really just renting space on Earth.
I also wanted to stop by and let you know that I nominated you for the Versatile Blogger Award. If you want to participate, you can find the rules here: https://birchstreet.blog/2017/05/02/the-versatile-blogger-award/ No worries if you don’t want to, I just wanted to let you know how much I like your blog
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Wow. What an honour! Thank you very much.
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