I worry about this with the crazy ants who sneak into my kitchen in the Spring -- the coffee grinder is right next to the box of sugar, and while the sugar is in an antproof zip-seal bag, the leftover ground coffee is not. They're already crazy, I don't want them to get any quicker!
I wrote a short story in which a modern-day haruspex predicted stock prices by the positions of the hummingbirds at his feeders and the paths they took across his garden. A rival kills them by spiking the feeders with cocaine...
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