Coevolution as Communication

Alright so for my experiment I'm implicating a few different things that are currently in my studio, including myself. Here are pictures:

 So here I have a snake I found and let go in the studio, a batch of "Rachel's Right Foot Cider", two carnivorous plants (Venus fly trap and Honey dew), moldy rose hips, a "Ben's Mouth Cider" that didn't turn into alcohol but something else, and fruit flies eating my apples. I'm also trying desperately to add another important element into the mix: a colony of ants. I went out in search of one locally but was frustrated not to find any. I then tried to buy a colony, but as it turns out its illegal to ship queen ants across state lines. I've emailed entomology labs on campus to give me a colony of Myrmica rubra or Formica. I'm planning on setting up an ecosystem in my lab with things that seem complementary in some cases and strange in others (again, including myself).

I think the snake's a dead end. I let it go and I'm quite sure I'll never see it again. The cider is interesting... I've been drinking some each day in order to get my own microbiotic populations used to it. At first I had an upset stomach, and at this point it still doesn't feel totally normal but its getting better. The two predatory plants I got to interact with the fruitflies that have been eating my produce. I also have a couple failures--the moldy rosehips and the unknown dangerous saliva-fruit juice mix that might be botulism (but probably not). How these will fit into the system, I don't yet know. When I get the ants, I expect they will predate on the fruit fly larvae as well as the fruit, and possible might find the fungus and botulism edible. As for myself, I'm an agent that holds this web together--I have to water the plants, will have to keep the ant nest moist, and will also have to compete with the fruit flies and ants for the fruit. Maybe I will also find some way to utilize the jar of potential botulism.

There is a circle here: apples to cider to me drinking it that changes my internal symbionts but these apples are temporal, rotting, and being eaten by other things before that has a chance to happen. I just need some goddamn ants...