In Which Black Super Ants Are Blamed

The next time all your lights go out you may

Pause for a moment ere you make that call

To yell at your utility, OK?

Another cause may be at work, is all

I want here to suggest. Take Gloucestshire,

At Hidcote Manor's gardens have been found

A Lasius neglectus band, a pure

Unholy nuisance: black ants who are bound

To be drawn to electric currents more

Than even food and drink. These Asian ants

Can thus cause black-outs, fires by the score

And vastly outbreed natives. There's a chance

That they're already over here as well,

Ant overlords who'll make our lives a hell.