What Is Your Favorite Song About Insects?

This week at WAIM, we are spending an hour with the smallest animals on Earth. It's a full sixty minutes of songs about ants, beetles, caterpillars, and more. What is your favorite song about bugs?

While I was traveling in the amazon this past February, I had a run in with a nasty breed of ant. On our first morning in the jungle, just before 8:00, Ama and I prepped ourselves for the short walk to the lodge for coffee and breakfast. As I made my way down the steps, I felt a sharp stabbing pain in my right foot near my little toe. As I reached for my shoe, I felt a second sting and wondered what in the Hell had just taken a chunk from my skin. Flailing, I managed to untie my shoe and get it off of my foot. I watched a large red ant crawl out of my shoe as I inspected the spot where I had been stung.

In addition to the pain of the bite, something akin to a wasp sting, I felt the tinge of idiocy in not having checked my shoes before putting them on my feet. We had been warned the evening before to double and triple check our shoes, but I had put them on without any thought. Now I wondered how swollen my foot would become, and how much of my time in the jungle would be compromised.