In a field one summer’s day, Greyson Grasshopper was hopping about, playing air guitar, and singing to his heart’s content.  Anders and Edison Ant passed by, bearing along with great toil an ear of corn they were taking to the nest.

“Why not come and chat with me,” said Greyson, “instead of toiling and moiling in that way?”

“We are helping to lay up food for the winter,” said Anders, “and recommend you to do the same.”

“Why bother about winter?” said Greyson. “There is plenty of food at present.”

But the Anders and Edison went on their way and continued their toil.

 

 

 

One bright day in late autumn, Anders and Edison Ant were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when Greyson Grasshopper came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.

“What!” cried the Ants in surprise, “haven’t you stored anything away for the winter? What in the world were you doing all last summer?”

“I didn’t have time to store up any food,” whined the Greyson; “I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone.”

Anders and Edison shrugged their shoulders in disgust.  “Making music, were you?” they cried. “Well now you can just play a sad song and dance yourself away!”

And they turned their backs on Greyson and went on with their work.

 

 

The next day, Greyson Grasshopper returned with Carter Cricket and Jenna Junebug.  Jenna, dazzling with her blue iridescent shell shining in the sunlight, exclaimed “It’s not fair that you have all that food stored in there while others are going hungry!   You need to own up to your ant privilege and do the right thing here!”

“You’re crazy.  We worked hard all summer for what we have.” said Anders Ant. “We’re not giving it away to those that played around and ignored their own welfare.”

“Eat the rich!  Eat the rich!  Eat the rich!” chanted Jenna Junebug.  Greyson Grasshopper and Carter Cricket quickly joined in the chanting.  More ants came out of the store house to see what was going on.  Other insects came from all around the area and joined in.  “Eat the rich!  Eat the rich!  Eat the rich!”

Jenna turned to the crowd: “Can we get some muscle over here?”

The cockroach crew, Kadon, Jayden, Dax, and Jax pushed through to the front of the crowd.  Then they charged through the line of ants and starting carrying food out of the storehouse.  The crowd turned into the mob, and mobs do what mobs always do.   The ants were quickly overrun, and insects were carrying everything out of the storehouse that they could get their hands on.

Fletcher Firefly, and his twin sisters Flora and Fauna, were the first to throw Molotov cocktails, but they were not the only ones peacefully protesting.  Soon, the storehouse was engulfed in flames.

 

 

When it was over, Greyson Grasshopper and Anders Ant were lying on the ground coughing from all the smoke.  There were dead and dying insects all around.

Lila Ladybug stepped forward and gleefully pronounced: “Finally, we have achieved true equity in this land!”