Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for August 02, 2014

Ants and 6 year-olds have the same sense of urgency.

Let’s just hope you don’t run into bees.

Now my curiosity has arisen! ;)

The biologists!

Watching ants on an anthill outside is better than dealing with an insectinside.

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I hate ants.

It’s amazing the ground ants cover in a few seconds with those tiny little legs. If the space were increased proportionally for us humans it would take us days, and yet the ants can scurry across a room in the time it takes us with our much longer stride.

*about 10 drops of essential oil to a cup of vodka is enough.

Where are you (running) off to Calvin?

Run, Calvin, Run!

Yesterday I watched a new hatching of garden spiderlings all hurrying up several web strands to gather together at the top of a pepper plant. Interesting, for those of us who like spiders.

I try not to kill ants, but I don’t want them in my kitchen. I will use white vinegar to destroy their trails. Doesn’t hurt them, just makes them give up and go elsewhere.

When I was a teen-ager someone asked me why I ran everywhere I went. I wasn’t aware I was doing that; it was just my standard locomotion for me, just like C & H. :-)

Ha ha I remember running around like that.

I use cinnamon at the ant entry and along any other likely entrances, they won’t cross it, Ground black pepper in small open jars to repel flies. Ants aerate the soil, a good thing in clay soil country and also do a bit of pollinating but I draw the line when they begin farming the aphids.

Ants do more than “a bit” of pollinating. Many plant species depend on them.

I remember back when I was a little tyke; way back! I was given a magnifying glass for a birthday gift. It was a 3" lens, with a blue plastic handle attached..When we learned we could focus the beam of light to create fire, the neighbor kid and I had a lot of fun outdoors! Of course, bugs (including ants) were a favorite target. Why, we must have fried a couple dozen of them until it got boring!.I suppose I will rot in hell for this, eh?

Look who’s talking!

xxx

Is it just me, or was Calvin supposed to be saying something in the last panel?

Bill Watterson still pens a new strip every day, then shreds it instead of publishing it. Anyone know why?

@Edwin Lesperance: The information about Bill Watterson drawing a new strip every day is a hoax that keeps resurfacing, from a satirical article written in 2011.