The Prisoners Of The Pitcher Plant

A small black ant was exploring the wilderness, and was hanging on the leaf of a huckleberry bush. This leaf was overhanging a patch of pitcher plants, plants in which bugs would crawl down, but would never come up. As the ant was crawling over the leaf, a large butterfly happened to come by and graze the leaf, knocking the poor ant into the opening on the pitcher plant. She gathered her senses and was curious of what could be lurking below and ventured forth. The ground grew stickier the further she went, so the ant decided to turn back, but was unable to do so. Little hairs from the plant blocked her from coming back up, no matter how hard she pushed. She kept getting shoved further and further down by her efforts until she fell down into a cold pool of water. She was very tires and could barely keep afloat, but luckily a moth's body was floating there and she climbed on to use it as a raft. She regained her strength, and heard a buzzing sound. The plant shook a little as its next victim fell down. A bee plunged into the water and began thrashing around. It too tried to cling to the moth, but was far to heavy. The black ant quickly jumped to the wall of the plant, and watched as the bee succumbed to its fate when it became tired and drowned. The ant felt that there was no means of escape, and her luck ran even worse when a large spider drooped down below, using its web to keep it safe. She tried to hide from the spider, but was spotted right away, and it looked like the end was near, when suddenly the plant was tossed aside as a rodent ran by. It caused everything inside to fly out, releasing the ant from her trap. The spider was not so lucky though. As he hung from his web, about to pounce on the ant, a large black and yellow object fell upon the spider. A great wasp grasped the spider and jabbed it several times with its stinger before buzzing away with the helpless spider.