Zotification.

The parallels with crabs / carcinization was the first thing I thought of when I saw the headline.

Fire ants are the spicy flavor!

Tasty barely has anything to do with it, they should stop being the most common animal on the planet by like a factor of 8.

The total biomass of Earth's ant population is estimated at around 12 megatons, that's a fucking lot. I'm told this exceeds the total combined biomass of all wild birds and non-human mammals, and matches about 20% of total human biomass.

If you put all the creatures of the Earth in a bag and pulled one out at random, you're about 50% likely to pull an ant.

Yeah, I'm a crab dude and am not switching to anteater now, this is the delicious hill I die on. But I'll pay them their rheumatism.