Bolushi's insect fighting adventures

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This seems to be the right thread for this.
You can post your insect fighting adventures too, but here are some of mine-
I put 1 (2?) carpenter ant in a glass with 2 fire ants, they were decapitated/bitten in half.
I got a container of fire ants and dumped a bunch of carpenter ants in it and they fought to a draw, carpenter ants were outnumbered.
I have on numerous occasions tore the legs off of carpenter ant workers and thrown them to my harvester ants.
I put 3-4 carpenter ant soldiers in a container with 20-30 harvester ants, the carpenter ants perched on the walls and picked them off from the top, because harvester ants are incapable of climbing things like glass/plastic.
I put a Mexican Twig Ant worker in a test tube with a harvester ant and the harvester ant chased it down and cut its body into small pieces. First it got its abdomen bitten off, then the rest of its body (still alive) was torn apart.
I had a few mealworm beetles (bought mealworms from the store, forgot about them and some matured) in a glass ''terrarium'' (mostly empty) and then put a bunch of harvester ants in there and after a few days they managed to bring down the beetles.
I put a trap jaw ant (either missing 1 of its mandibles or missing its legs, don't remember) inside a container of carpenter ants, trap jaw ant lost.
I organized a few fights involving trap jaw ants with high expectations but they only did OK when their opponent was outnumbered and got killed by carpenter ants and harvester ants. I don't recall directly watching a solo kill on a trap jaw ant by either species, but I do know the grapple between the 2 just made their inferiority 1 on 1 grossly apparent. And then coupled with youtube videos of 1 on 1 fights I did see they also, as expected, didn't perform well or didn't perform at all.
I'm even more disappointed in Pseudomyrmex gracilis, I've been stung by one and it hurts badly, but they just don't fight and either evade the fight or lose the fight.
Those are my experiences with insect (mostly ant) fights, lol.

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I used to feed ants to cellar spiders and catch grasshoppers and crickets, pinch their hind legs off, and feed them to grass spiders. Also, I would kick open ant mounds and throw earthworms into the swarm of ants.

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I captured a lot of carpenter ants, caught a bee and froze it and accidentally killed it. I caught another, froze it again but didn't kill it, mutilated its wings and then put it in with the carpenter ants. I put them in solenopsis hybrid nest I had from a few years back I got from AntsCanada's shop and the bee crawled around but it never occurred to the ants to attack, and mind you these were soldiers. I was quite surprised as the smaller harvester ants from elsewhere were very aggressive and these guys seemingly weren't, even though I've seen them tear apart smaller ants and duke it out with harvester and trap jaw ants and come out on top. I guess they were weirded out, considering bees usually fly and they don't see them. So I then put them in a smaller container and forced them to interact, they ''fought'' in short intervals but the bee never mounted an offense. Finally after a while I got sick and tired of their boring bullshit and just threw them in a fire ant nest to get mobbed to death.
That was yesterday.