Morning Dew Trap

I kicked aside my crimson watchtower cap and found a tiny black ant trapped inside a shimmering morning dewdrop resting in the boulder's moss! The poor scout was flailing in surface tension like a doomed sailor caught in a gelatinous cube! Retreat wasn't an option. I lunged forward, grabbed a stiff, dry pine needle lodged in the rock groove, and thrust the sharp tip straight into the quivering water bubble. Pop! The surface tension snapped, the water drained into the green moss, and the little critter scrambled onto my needle tip completely unhurt. Sector vanguard successfully extracted!