Brian Fisher's thoughts on the subject

     Concerning the proposed name change. I support a name change but feel that "Pirate ants" fails to conjure up what is happening, that ants are being taken hostage. Pirates take booty, and pirates ants would be a good term for ants that stole food or nests. Kidnap and hostage are better terms.
     Kidnapping, a word derived from kid = 'child' and nap (nab) = 'snatch', recorded since 1673, was originally used as a term for the practice of stealing children for use as servants or laborers in the American colonies. [1]

Brian