Human Eating Ants

Human eating ants are primarily herbivorous, using grasses and aquatic plants as a major foodsource. Blood is also taken from small animals like frogs, lizards, and birds, but rarely from mammals. They have been known to eat their own dead. Human ants are omnivorous. They will eat anything they can find, including dead and alive animals and insects, plants and other humans.

Human Eating Ants

How long would it take to die by being staked to an ant colony? It depends on the ant. Some, like the Maricopa harvester ant, will kill you fast by poison: it only takes a few hundred stings for this ant to kill a human [compared to 1,500 for honeybees, assuming you are not allergic], and once one stings you, the others will follow [they smell the alarm pheromones in the sting], so death will be fast.

Some, like the bullet ant, are not so toxic but much more painful. You will likely pass out from pain after the worst imaginable hour of your life and then succumb to dehydration or shock. That goes for many of the other ants too.

The only ant that could potentially devour you is Siafu, the African driver ant. They are not as bad as they are in the movies [Indiana Jones 4], but are known [or at least rumored] to have killed infants. The issue is that you are not moving, so they can attack you and you can’t do anything. However, even a whole Siafu colony won’t reduce you to bone like piranhas: you’re too big and moist and warm and they’re not interested in taking you down. They will assume you are a threat, not a food, and even after you die they may ignore you, as ants are not usually attracted to large mammal cadavers compared to, say, corpse flies.

The main cause of death from such treatment overall won’t be venom or getting eaten: it will be dehydration, starvation, or infection-related issues like gangrene or septic shock. These are slow deaths, taking days. The ants won’t be as big of a problem as the flies that will flock towards your body [and the inevitable pile of dung that is gathering below you], and possibly laying eggs in your wounds and orifices. It is a slow and painful death, taking days.

A variant of this torture involving a boat and a lot of honey has a name: Scaphism. For the strong of stomach only.

Human Eating Ants

Humans have been the prey of ants since long before the dawn of history.

The ancient Egyptians believed that ants were the guardians of the underworld, and they used them as a metaphor for their own society. In one Egyptian legend, a pharaoh is killed by ants and buried in his tomb. The pharaoh’s spirit then returns to haunt his murderers—the people who had killed him and buried him alive—and he exacts revenge on them.

In another legend from ancient Egypt, ants build a giant pyramid out of dirt for a time-traveling Pharaoh named Ra. The pyramid is so large that it takes 1 million ants to build it, but when Ra returns home after his journey through time, he demands that they remove the pyramid because he has no use for it anymore.

In more modern times, humans have been known to be eaten by worker ants (whose bites are not poisonous) while they sleep outside at night during warm months or while camping in areas where ant colonies are present. They also sometimes crawl into people’s clothes while they’re wearing them, causing irritation on human skin and sometimes even minor injuries such as allergic reactions or small cuts caused by sharp edges on ant bodies or legs which can result in

List Of Human Eating Ants