A small insect typically having a sting and living in a complex social colony with one or more breeding queens. It is wingless except for fertile adults, which form large mating swarms, and is proverbial for its industriousness.Family Formicidae, order Hymenoptera: several subfamilies.
have ants in one's pants
informal: be fidgety or restless: What's the matter with you, always fidgeting—you got ants in your pants?
the ant's pants
Australian informal: An outstandingly good person or thing: We had a great party that night thinking we were the ant's pants.
Old English ǣmete of West Germanic origin; related to German Ameise. Compare with emmet.
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keep them away from me please, I don't like being bitten by them ;-)
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Not my favorite creature when they get in the house, but they are fascinating and industrious insects!
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Last year for the first time I watched winged ants take flight from a planter of succulents towards the fence and over. It was amazing and somewhat freaky.
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