Ant Calvalcade

Although you probably can’t see them very well, there are ants in this picture. (Sorry I don’t have a good macro lens—this is from a cell phone camera.) I observed a parade of them, tiny red ones, each carrying a small white packet in its mouth, scurrying across the sidewalk in front of my house. I was pleased they were going away from my house and not toward it. At first I thought they were carrying bits of food, but then I wondered if these little white bundles were not eggs. Maybe they were moving. Or maybe they were stealing eggs from another ant tribe. If they were thieves did they intend to raise the ant-napped babies as their own, maybe make them slaves, or were they going to eat them. One thing for sure, if they’re going to Wisconsin to find better jobs, they’re going the wrong way.