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You could be sitting on the ground minding your own business, not hear a hive and one will climb on you and start bitting. Does that count for causing torment
by benjaminl 9y ago
You could be sitting on the ground minding your own business, not hear a hive and one will climb on you and start bitting.
Does that count for causing torment for no reason?
That is one of the many reasons why it is unusual to sit directly on the ground in Florida without something like a picnic blanket.
- clort 9y agoNot really, because there is still a hive nearby which they are protecting. You are a potential predator that they are trying to move on. They might be a nuisance. Indeed, they might be a invasive and dangerous nuisance which we need to be exterminated, but that does not make them evil, and neither does it require glee to carry out that task. They are ants is all. They have, in evolutionary terms, found and developed a niche for themselves just as we have.
- Aardwolf 9y agoIt's instincts, it does not have brain capacity to think "ha ha ha a human! Let's be evil and ruin their picnic". Probably instead what happens is while crawling around it detects the surface it crawled on is actually the body of a large living entity, so going into defense mode is one possible response. Not sure if in this case it's because it may make you move to get free if stuck under you, or chase away possible threats to nest, or because possible food source?