However, the rest of the ant colony and the queen had become convinced that these newcomers are indeed the warriors for which they had hoped when the Circus Bugs help Flik pull off a daring rescue of Dot, Atta's younger sister of the colony, who idolizes Flik and a wounded Francis, a ladybug performer of the Circus Bug troupe from a predatory bird. The bug troupe, meanwhile, mistakes Flik for a talent agent who wants to book their act and agrees to travel with him back to Ant Island.īoth Flik and the circus troupe soon become aware of their respective mistakes. When Atta and the council agrees to his proposal, Flik actually believes they have accepted the merits of his plan, whereas the council actually saw it as a convenient way of simply keeping Flik from wreaking any more havoc with their food-gathering activities.įlik finds his way to the Bug City garbage under a trailer, where he finds a group of recently fired circus performers, whose act had collapsed into chaos, and mistakes them for the warrior bugs he's seeking. Later, while he is being admonished by Atta and the royal council of the colony, Flik proposes a plan to recruit warrior bugs to fight off the grasshoppers, much to the Queen's amusement. In exchange for a temporary reprieve from the grasshoppers, the ants are given until the end of autumn to produce an offering of twice the usual amount. However, while working with an invention to pick grain more efficiently, a young optimistic ant named Flik accidentally destroys the annual offering that the ants were collecting to appease the grasshoppers.

The grasshoppers arrive once a season to extort food from the ants, supposedly in return for protection from bigger bugs.

The plot of A Bug's Life focuses on an outcast ant named Flik who recruits a group of circus bugs to help him rid his colony of evil grasshoppers.Īnt Island is the home of a colony of desperate and peaceful ants, ruled by the wise queen and her oldest daughter, Princess Atta, who is very timid and nervous of her responsibilities.

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