Size: 0.19 in. Where it lives: Pavement ants most often nest under bricks or pavement, but they are also found in grassy areas near sidewalks and even in extreme environments, like salt marshes. What it eats: Ultimate opportunists, pavement ants eat anything from dead insects to honeydew, a sugary food leaf hoppers produce.
confound - be confusing or perplexing to; cause to be unable to think clearly; These questions confuse even the experts; This question completely threw me; This question befuddled even the teacher
asserting the contrary or opposite; contradicting; inconsistent; logically opposite: contradictory statements. 2. tending or inclined to contradict. noun, plural contradictories. 3. Logic. a proposition so related to a second that it is impossible for both to be true or both to be false. Origin of contradictory.