How would you compare the ant buzz to a more commonly known psychoactive plant-based poison like datura?
Oh, it’s nothing like datura. And actually that’s not a fair comparison at all. It’s much more like the poison of the tarantella, the wolf spider of Europe. Would you like to see some ants that I’ve collected? juicing antcastles The Bad Shaman displays his dead ant collection and the extracts. He takes a sip from one beaker, and offers it to me.> This one has a very peculiar taste… Spiros gulps some ant beer.> Very ant-y… How would you describe the taste of ants? Different ants have different tastes. These particular ants have a lemon-lime, Sprite-like taste. Not the formaldehyde and formic acid tastes of other types of ants. Nor the sweet buttery taste of black ants. Or the honey taste of honey pod ants. While this is unexplored territory, it’s not for the faint or foolhardy. No. It’s literally like playing in a wasp’s or hornet’s nest. Ants pack as powerful a venom and sting as those insects. You’ve been bitten a few times playing in the nest. When the ants bit my tongue it took
