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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Tea Time for Ants

After struggling to sign into my own blog (the sign in would not allow me to sign in!!), I write this piece today.

Trees, shrubs and plants near our ground floor apartment encourage the small creatures like tiny black ants and big black ants to invade our kitchen. They are very choosy about food and drinks! They clamour for fallen crystals of sugar. They swarm around spilled drops of tea. Not coffee, not rice, not milk.

Minutes after the spills we can see them come out from somewhere and take away the sugar. One drop of tea and we can see at least 20 ants forming a circle around the drop and enjoying tea together! Leftover tea makes them climb up the walls of the mugs or tumblers and then down to reach the leftover tea in it.

Tea time with a bit of sugar is party time for the ants in our house.

Cheers!
Mahalakshmi.

1 comment:

  1. I liked this post. Good observation about a mundane thing. A very positive post and cheers!

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