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And so the region depends on tourism — the spending of “emmets,” a Cornish term for ants and for holidaymakers from “up country.”

Even in the best of holiday seasons, the people of Cornwall in southwest England have a love-hate relationship with the hordes of summer visitors the locals call “emmets,” which is Cornish for ants.

I had forgotten that I had told him, four or five days ago, my hatred for all cities, and especially for that great mound of greedy emmets, which, unfortunately, is the capital of this country.

O Thou who givest sight to emmet's eyes, And strength to puny limbs of feeble flies, To Thee we will ascribe Almighty power, And not base, unbecoming qualities.

And many another he might phrase Who studies as they pass The human emmet's social ways, Through observation's glass.