The Three Stooges, Newburgh's three-headed ant who was on the auction site eBay on Monday, has died, according to the Times Herald-Record.

Age and gender are unknown.

The cause of death was apparently starvation.

"I tried everything I could think of, but it didn't work," said Christine Macri, who found the bug clinging to a sunflower plant in her backyard Sunday.

"I tried feeding him something sweet, but he didn't eat that."

The only thing that is clear to at least one expert is that the one-quarter-inch-long bug only had one head of its own.

After reviewing photos of the ant, Philip S. Ward, an ant expert at the University of California Davis, said the other two heads appeared to belong to ants that had been decapitated and speared gladiator-style, probably during an ant war.