Ants 1

Every morning when I go to the kitchen cabinet to make my coffee I find ants crawling all over the honey bear. At first they were only on the outside of the bear's body, but after a few days they figured out how to squeeze themselves underneath the plastic yellow lid. I got quite a shock one day popping open the lid and finding them swarming frantically around the hole where the honey pours out. I thought, oh great, I'm going to find ant carcasses floating around in my coffee. But after I rinsed off the bear and wiped his lid clean, I peered through the clear plastic to see how infested the honey had become. To my surprise there was not a single ant on the inside where all the honey was. Somehow the ants know that they will drown if they try to drink from the ocean of honey contained inside. To save their own lives, they restain themselves, and only nibble the sugar crystals that crust around the edge of the lid.