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Originally Posted by Boomer
No matter how careful I thought I was being about not leaving a picnic on the counter for those  ants, I could not win. They showed up twice. I was done.
I called Deans. They immediately brought little traps. Done! |
Ok, they are far more interesting in your home than in ours.
It is a PLAN with no significant brain-if you can think of it that way. I seem to recall reading that an ant can lift over 6x it's weight-no human can do that.
There is the nest built to support and house the queen. The queen is fed by the workers, and protected by specialized fighters. The queen is a pregnancy mill turning out the thousands of ants that you see. To get rid of them, you need to kill the queen. Unlike in chess, the queen herself kills the king.
That mentioned liquid from Walmart? In days of old it would have been a mixture of arsenic and sugar. They never explained why in old murder mysteries arsenic was the commonly used poison. I think it is no longer sold BUT if your food tastes like almonds, someone close is looking to collect on your insurance or does not know how to spell ant-aunt