Escamoles

Escamoles, an ages old traditional Mexican dish, made from the eggs and pupae of the black ant in that region...

Added a link here to a survival site showing how to harvest ant eggs from the wild.  I will be trying this soon but with a canvas tarp specially rigged for such an event.  Thinking about a sewed flap with openings for the sticks, closed on one side, open on the other so when the ants do their thing of hiding the eggs, we just tip it up and let them roll out the open end into a container and hopefully with not so many ants.  I think they will mostly be attached to the tarp.

Ants have gotten really bad in my area over the last few years...or is it they have gotten really good?  We'll soon find out!  An early inspection of one local hill revealed the eggs are still young and very tiny.  I have seen them at least as large as the ones in this video.