Back to B.C. by Johnny Hart for January 15, 2022

Members of the ant species Colobopsis explodens will explode when approached by a predator: https://www.antwiki.org/wiki/Colobopsis_explodens

They are just waiting for a mutant called Joe in Wisconsin – in a 40/50’s Sci-Fi novel by Clifford D. Simak where Ants do take over the world -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_(novel)

The Anttomic Bomb?

Well, there is already a bug bomb. Does that count?

Ants got bombs?

Save the effort. Lay back in the weeds and wait. Humanity is on the way out by itself. For every one trying to help, it seems there are several just trying to do harm for one reason or another. If all humanity pulled on the same end of the rope, we’d have colonies on Mars by now.

Ant that a shame?

Them!

Today’s strip ties together nicely with today’s “Over the Hedge” strip.

They don’t attack, because they often get distracted by Picnic Baskets.

Once again, no Sunday strip.

Pikers! there are 17,000,000 flies for every person:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/science/flies-biology.html#:~:text=For%20each%20person%20on%20earth%2C%20there%20are%2017%20million%20flies.

I think 10,000 is too low. I would expect it is more like 500,000. For instance, the largest safari eat colony was estimated to have 20 million ants. Which is why they are more dangerous than the army ant which has colonies that only reach 2 million ants.