yes, please.

I have never seen two kids more excited about an ant hole than the day we dug for `ukuy´. In the synapse between september and october, ants the size of brasil nuts are prized delicacies here in the amazon. They hibernate in the depths of the leaf-cutter ants´dynasties (the one´s that are taking over my house). They are fairly easy to extract minus the angry pinching normal-sized ants. Anderson, Daniel and I collected a cup full of ukuy and fried them up with a little spackle of salt and voila! our mid-morning snack. I have to admit they were kind of good, but it was mostly crispy fried-oil I tasted.




Mikuy Ukuy! (Eat Ants!)