Respect?! I’ve waged wars against those heathens! Ants are ruthless. The Geneva conventions became the Geneva handbook. I’ve exterminated entire colonies and then poured molten aluminum to enshrine what once was a thriving metropolis. I’ve sent in rivaling colonies to capture their queens, only to exterminate them too.
I’ve set up battalions to carry out counter invasions with help from other organism, caterpillars, black widows, and snakes.
For total air dominance I’ve enlisted aerial support from sparrows and starlings by setting up dozens to hundreds of bird feeders.
Doodlebugs and spiders would be able to attack at all hours.
I have declared war on all ant kind. If I see an ant ever cross my path I rid the square mile of every ant, I attack with the full force of gods fury. I’ve destroyed super-colonies across state lines. Ants are putting up a great resistance, the light is dim, but I will prevail.