B.C. by Mastroianni and Hart for May 12, 2021

Yes, he’s red and has a bite that stings like crazy !

Don’t look now, but here comes a kid with a magnifying glass.

You two are about to be DEAD ants.

He’s also a magician. “Watch me make my beach towel disappear! Abra-cadabra!”

In that case you must be burned black……

The devil you say.

He may be good but he didn’t notice he already burned the purple beach towel under him to ashes!

… and … just because I’m a Red Ant doesn’t make me a Native American or a Communist either.

Er ist red und ant.

If he still stays in the sun too long, would that turn him into a fire ant?

Hadda happen one day. New character.

That bites!

Wise guy, eh?

so red ants are just sunburnt ants

Ah. The old “Disappearing Beach Towel” trick…

Brings up an interesting point. I wonder if ants can get sunburns? Other than with magnifying glasses of course.

Where’s the chocolate sauce?

I can’t wait for the ant races.

I am a red ant but I am not a Russian ant!

Welp, I think he lost the beach towel

I tend to tan on the reddish side. Unless I’m bright cooked lobster red, I’m not sunburned.

I think he meant the red ant’s beach blanket that got burning.

You know…there does seem to be a connection between red ant population density in warmer and sunnier states!

Yes, you red that correctly.

Joke was on you bud in the ’50s with my partner a magnifying glass.

Imaging a red and a black species of humant.

So much for assumptions. I assumed the similarly colored water had snuck up and was slipping away with the towel. The water is now further away.

Is he a fire ant? I’m highly allergic! When we lived in College Station, Texas, I sat on an ant hill of fire ants and ended up in the hospital. I was 6 years old, and then my parents had to take me to Austin Medical center for a battery of allergy testing. This was back in the 1960’s. My biggest memory of getting the results was my dad saying, “She’s allergic to hops; well she won’t be a beer drinker.”

If he was a fire ant, he would be on fire.