I am looking for a short story about alien insects that start out small and eventualy grow out of control.?

Question

The short story is about a man who likes to buy exotic pets and one day obtains some kind of alien insect. He puts them in a terrarium with sand and they form, i think, four different little tribes. as he cares for them and such they grow, they war with each other, etc. He has some friends over one day and has the insects face a new threat, i think it was either a very large insect or a small animal. the insects win, however, iirc, his friends are very off put with this display of violence. Eventualy they get bigger and bigger, and at some point he attacks them, and they regard him as an evil god. Finaly, the insects escape from his house and move into the outside world, where they eventual capture and possibly kill him.

The short story was found inside a book of short stories with an exotic green alien female, sitting profile to the reader.

Answer 1

This short story was called "Sandkings" by George R.R. Martin

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandkings

Answer 2

No. they do no longer experience the experience like we people do. this is because of the fact we've a familiar demanding gadget working by using our vertebra (backbone) which sends messages to our suggestions. this implies that if if our leg is harm, we experience the discomfort on the precise suggestions. on the different hand, the bugs are non-vertebra and that they don't have familiar demanding gadget. for this reason if an ant's leg is overwhelmed, purely the leg will experience interior sight discomfort. in addition to, their discomfort value is short, on account that they produce super style of off springs and their existence is short. they are in a position to additionally reproduce their lost organs. this is been stated that in case you decrease a cockroach's head, this is going to die after a month because of ravenous. Scientists have decrease a lobster's leg and feed him, which he ate. it is likewise real that different than for people no different animal is wide-unfold with of its existence.