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What goes click ninety-nine times and clack once? A centipede with a clubfoot.
That's my private ant. You're liable to break its legs.
I pulled the Net chip out of my head, cutting her off. The chip was long and white, with many metal legs; cupped in my hand, it looked like some pale, crawling thing that you'd find living under a rock. Vermin.
Ants in the house seem to be, not intruders, but the owners.
Only once did Lori glimpse such an entity, supine on a mattress in the corner of its boudoir. It was naked, corpulent and sexless, its sagging body a motley of dark, oily skin and larval eruptions that seeped phosphorescence, soaking its simple bed.
the lizard living at the base of her spine
It had a sort of a head on it, like a mushroom, and its color was reddish purple. It looked blunt and stupid, compared, say, to fingers and toes with their intelligent expressiveness, or even to an elbow or a knee.
It was a perfectly normal gerbil. It appeared to be living in an exciting construction of cylinders, spheres and treadmills, such as the Spanish Inquisition would have devised if they'd had access to a plastics molding press.
Tortoises are incredible creatures," Dad says earnestly. "What they lack in elegance and beauty they more than make up for in the ability to curl up and defend themselves from predators."
"What, like me?
A little roving, solitary thing.
If you were an animal, what would you be?" I wrote, "A bumblebee trying to fuck a marble.
Myrmecophaga jubata: The anteater. The existence of this predator demonstrates that thinking 71 percent of the time, as ants do, won't prevent you from being eaten. Thinking less than that, as humans do, will almost guarantee it.
It's a jolly little junior vermin!
It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare.
Ants are a curious race
Holy crap, were they part anteater?
Calamity-ville horror plagued by mold and termites and a faulty foundation.
RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans".
Data:I could be chasing an untamed ornithoid without cause.
It is ferocious, life, but it must eat . . .
Why, you boggle-eyed, flap-tongued, drag-bellied offspring of unmentionable algae! You seething little leprous blotch of bat-nibbled fungus! You cringing parasite on the underside of a dwarfish and ignoble worm!
I'm a nature bug.
Ants are terrifying, having survived for 130 million years, evolving into a monarchical society of soldiers with bizarre levels of self sacrifice. Ants keep slaves. I don't crush them, it's pointless, they outnumber humans tenfold by body mass.
Bug on the wall.
Smoking is extremely hazardous to you and those around you it said on the label. He glanced around. The few termites that might thrive down here could probably handle it.
Things without defense: insects, kittens, small boys.
I'm like a fungus; you can't get rid of me.
PICKANINNY, n. The young of the "Procyanthropos", or "Americanus dominans". It is small, black and charged with political fatalities.
pocket lizard licker.
A tortoise is, I suppose, a Jewish pet. It knows its place. Out on the lawn. It doesn't bark. It doesn't tear the Dralon.
It's a geode. You can sess that, the way the rock around you abruptly changes to
What sort of moths eat chainmail?
A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
porcine whipworm,
A flat black bug, that is London.
It had need to bee
A wylie mouse that should breed in the cat's care.
But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
Armadillos that, in some cases, grew to be as large as Fiat 500s.
I once typed 'vagina dentata' into dictionary and it asked me, 'Did you mean giant anteater?
If I have to worry about the ants I crush beneath my feet, I couldn't even walk around
The Torus is my enemy!
Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.'
They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words.
What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns?
Off in strata of porous rock by the leathery half-plant, half-animal little makers - and
Lily Houghton-Miller stood in the middle of my living room and surveyed me with the detached interest of a scientist gazing at a new variety of manure-based invertebrate.
Hey, sister buzz-kill," she said languorously to Jen. "What crawled up your ass and died?"
"I don't know," Jen retorted. "What died and crawled up your ass?"
There were times I regretted being an only child. This wasn't one of them.
F***ing triffids.
I am rather fond of ladybugs. They are so delightfully hemispherical.
If only they were truly ants, wee could step on them and crush them.
The flea, though he kill none, he does all the harm he can.
Cat, gray tabby, calm, watches large, black ant. Man, rapt, stands staring at cat and ant. Ant advances along path. Ant halts, baffled. Ant back-tracks fast - straight at cat. Cat, alarmed, backs away. Man, standing, staring, laughs. Ant changes path again. Cat, calm again, watches again.
The Mollusks - generous hosts when they weren't trying to kill you.
When giants fought, ants were crushed.
Carcharadon carcharias. Six thousand
pounds of muscle powering a hoop
of butcher's knives. The only animal
that ate its weaker siblings in the womb.
Immune from cancer. Constantly awake.
A harvester ant never quits and she never, ever gives up.
I wonder what ants do on rainy days?
That parasite: the past.
Do not kill ants. They are your best friends.
A maggot is just another life form.
You, you are a cockroach. No matter how many times we tried to get rid of you, you kept finding a way to scuttle your way back. And as much as I don't like you, well, you are persistent. And even I can admire you that.
I have a monster under my bed, and it's Mouse.
These Atlantikoinonia. They're human? (Acheron)
What else would they be? Turnips? (Tory)
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle.
What hostile parasite is tunneling through her sphincter? (Zarina)
landed on my chest and stuck its proboscis
A mix of human and lizard and who knows what else. White, tight reptilian skin smeared with gore, clawed hands and feet, their faces a mess of conflicting features.
A freakish homunculus germinated outside of lawful procreation.
Can you see the beauty in a cockroach?
Summerlee burst into derisive laughter. 'A ptero-fiddlestick!' said he. 'It was a stork, if I ever I saw one.
Who has more leisure than a worm?
Mosquitoes, how wonderful! No one puts them in cages or makes pets out of them.
The ants are bad" The Bear
"the ants?"Tahir
"Do not be fooled. They look very small, so harm you don't think of then at all. Then years. Then one day you wake up, and your home has fallen down." Osman.
If there was a crayon, and I was to put a label on it, I would call it dinosaur skin.
-So B. It
The gaiaphage. That's the other word they use. 'Gaia,' as in world. 'Phage,' as in a worm or something that eats something up. I'm going to go way out on a limb here and say I don't think something that calls itself a 'world eater' is a good thing.
Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs.
It's a snake, then.'
'Rattler?'
'Most likely.'
I was taking this extremely well. 'We have to kill it. By we, of course, I mean you. I'll stand here and scream.
Are you a Tigger or an Eyore?
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
[Insects] are not only cold-blooded, and green- and yellow-blooded, but are also cased in a clacking horn. They have rigid eyes and brains strung down their backs. But they make up the bulk of our comrades-at-life, so I look to them for a glimmer of companionship.
In my tadpole stage I was delivered to Metron Ariston and transmogrified, and here am I. My name is Sporos, by the way, and I do not like your thinking names like mouse-creature and shrimp-thing at me.
See, they're currently in alien terrain, surrounded by millions of the most vicious creatures on the planet. Humans. - Newt Scamander
fishhook. It's squiggly like a worm. Something's
The man that brings ant-infested faggots into his hut should not grumble when lizards begin to pay him a visit.
She's actually a friend of yours... Myosotis Terra. And you wouldn't know, actually. Or to be precise, you wouldn't remember. - Skulduggery (Myosotis Terra)
Discovered it had an emergency back-up personality
Now it's the bee... Gees! Bees are now endangered species... Without them life won't be sweet!
Insect, pup, or rat. It certainly seems to me that you don't know what he is, so maybe you should leave him alone...
'Gracious, Lorelei, you should have kept your mouth shut! Why not just call him a smelly rhinoceros wart while you're at it?' (Lorelei)
Genghises. Large, angry Genghises.
In the summer evenings, fireflies swarm around the tarn, making something hateful almost beautiful.
That?" I glanced back to the door where JT had disappeared. "That was Genus Homo, species Whowantstofuckus, subspecies Closeted Headup Hisassia. Let us move on to the cages with the interesting animals."
Jacob "Yasha" Livingston
The smallest form of life, even an ant or a clam, is equal to a human being
Stupid, Stupid Rat Creatures!
The discovery informs about the origins and early evolution of arthropods, the most ubiquitous, species-rich, morphologically diverse and successful animal group on Earth.
Oh, a very useful philosophical animal, your average tortoise. Outrunning metaphorical arrows, beating hares in races ... very handy.
They were black like a lizard's and very large and, like the eyes of a lizard, could sometimes look sleepy.
Eww! That's gross, Gramps. You just picked that stick up off the grass. Who knows what animal has done sick things to it. Probably chipmunks I bet; they're always doing devious stuff when you're not looking.
Assumed to be australopithecines because there are no other known candidates. I
The ant finds kingdoms in a foot of ground.
Now we see you, you nasty little creature! We will eat you and leave your bones and skin hanging on a tree. Ugh! he's got a sting has he? Well, we'll get him all the same, and then we'll hang him head downwards for a day or two." While
From the dawn of agriculture until this very day, billions of humans armed with branches, swatters, shoes and poison sprays have waged relentless war against the diligent ants, furtive roaches, adventurous spiders and misguided beetles that constantly infiltrate the human domicile. For