EXHIBIT A The Naked Jungle (1954)
WHAT TRANSPIRED: An army of ants has designs on taking over a cocoa plantation in South America. (Was the cocoa actually coca?)
LESSON LEARNED: The late Charlton Heston, again, proved our handiest weapon against non-human thugs.

EXHIBIT B Them! (1954)
WHAT TRANSPIRED: Gigantic, irradiated ants terrorize homo sapens in a Darwinian bid for self-preservation.
LESSON LEARNED: For the love of god, keep insects away from atomic energy.

EXHIBIT C Dr. Who (1965)
WHAT TRANSPIRED: While under the power of the Animus, the Zarbi insect species nick the humans' time-travel gizmo.
LESSON LEARNED: Giant ants are not necessarily evil, unless themselves subjected to mind-control.

EXHIBIT D Phase IV (1974)
WHAT TRANSPIRED: A feral race of ants band together and attack humans in the Arizona desert.
LESSON LEARNED: Beware new species.

EXHIBIT E Empire of the Ants (1977); also an H.G. Wells short story (1905)
WHAT TRANSPIRED: Intelligent ants brainwash folks in Florida, turning them into slaves. (Wells’ account takes place in South America.)
LESSON LEARNED: Joan Collins is impervious to insect bamboozlery.

EXHIBIT F It Happened at Lake Manor (1977)
WHAT TRANSPIRED: A placid resort is overrun by poisonous ants high on chemical waste.
LESSON LEARNED: Ants notwithstanding, bad things just tend to happen at isolated hotels.

EXHIBIT G Legion of Fire: Killer Ants! (1998)
WHAT TRANSPIRED: Flesh-eating South American ants coordinate organized assaults.
LESSON LEARNED: South America is apparently a hotbed for evil ants.

EXHIBIT H MANT (a movie within the 1993 movie Matinee)
WHAT TRANSPIRED: “Half man…Half ant…All terror!!'”
LESSON LEARNED: Hybrid ants—no less potent.