JDelekto: When you have that super high-tech magnifying glass as your secret weapon, the ants will bend to your will!
Tarnicus: When I was in primary(elementary to the rest of the world) school and people used to try to burn, harm or kill insects and arachnids, I would "go psycho" at them. I saved snails, slugs, spiders, ants and all manner of creepy crawlies. I handled "deadly" creatures(I live in Australia) in order to save them. I still, to this day, cannot understand why our species thinks so highly of itself. I do not see any other out of balance to the extent we are. I do not see any other species cause the amount of harm that we do as a species. And yet, on some strange level, I still love my fellow human being. Why? We have a propensity for learning that I do not see with other species.
I understand the concept of survival; my adrenal response far outweighs most I know. With that said, why is it we feel the need to dominate and destroy so many other for our "survival"? I am misanthropic to some extent, and yet I keep meeting pretty darn nice people, who when assumptions and beliefs are challenged, they cannot explain why they wish to cause harm without though to others. This differs from survival.
To thwart a magnifying glass, one merely needs to wait til nightfall til the sun has gone down :) And then the stabby, poisonous, bitey things can come out and wreak havock :P
<grin> I never deliberately went after ants, in fact, I owned several ant-farms when I was a child. (Hey, they didn't have YouTube or Netflix back then.) You probably won't see me having a funnelweb spider as a pet though!
I may have to disagree with other species having the propensity for learning. When I see things like hawks on a hunt for prey or dolphins interacting with other humans, it is difficult to not think they are intelligent within their own species.
Sure, you don't see bears making weapons to hunt, but that's because they were already born with them!