Ants, ants, everywhere!!

[Hawk Dork]

I flush my bacon fat and chicken gristle in the toilet over summer, to stop the thick black line of them coming from the window to the bin (about 20 metres of ant highway)
I probably need to get a bokashi to get rid of it

 

[Shell]

Wow. That's pretty extreme measures.

 

[Shell]

Luckily i dont have an "invasion"- it seems like if I leave a stray crumb on the floor, there's like 10-20 ants around it. Like wtf...

I just have to be more vigilant and clean up quicker.


Might get a surface spray too just to be sure. Just spray around the place a little, see if that does the trick.

 

[Shell]

*thank christ they dont seem to go near the pantry.

not yet anyway

 

[Hawk Dork]

they seem to like protein,sugar and water
If they had a choice they choose protein first

 

[Kram]

*thank christ they dont seem to go near the pantry.

not yet anyway

Full of sugar is it?

 

[HomerThompson]

Antihistimines

 

[peternorth]

Antihistimines

brilliant

 

[Shell]

God these ****ing ants its like they are lying in wait for me to drop ONE crumb on the floor and they go all over it.


Will be buying some surface spary in the next couple days, and spraying around the place right before i leave for the beach.

 

[Shell]

And when i say one... i mean ONE. The tiniest things.


Might just have to bring out the vacuum and leave it out- and vacuum every time i have a meal.

 

[Shell]

Wtf u laughing at krammy

 

[Kram]

Just looked in the kitchen, there is one solitary ant performing some reconnaissance work I assume.

 

[Shell]

The weird thing is- they're not going anywhere near my pantry where all the food is. And i have nfi where they are actually coming from. Its like they just magically appear out of thin air.

 

[Kram]

You will no doubt laugh at me but even though are an enemy I rarely ever kill ants like I would do with say a cockroach or a fly.

 

[Shell]

K i sprayed just a tiny bit of odorless. Hopefully i dont gas myself

 

[peternorth]

Found an ant trail outside. Placed the dead mother spider I killed a few weeks ago omg the trail. Then a dead bee. Ants were very thankful.

 

[Kram]

Found an ant trail outside. Placed the dead mother spider I killed a few weeks ago omg the trail. Then a dead bee. Ants were very thankful.

You are an ideas man Pete.

 

[peternorth]

You are an ideas man Pete.

circle of life.

and giving them something in return for staying outside

 

[Shell]

Was over at my parents place yesterday for xmas- the ants at their place are just ridiculous.

Ants on the dining room table. Like wtaf- with a table cloth on it too. Usually ants dont like material? I was killing em right before lunch was to be served.



And then later on I grabbed some leftovers (ants were pretty much gone at this stage) and put on the bench a bowl of lemon wedges. Unfortunately i forgot to but them back in the fridge, 5 mins later they were swarming all over them.

 

[Shell]

So gross. My brother the champ cleaned them up.


Meanwhile back at my place the ants that seem to appear everytime i drop a tiny crumb on the floor seemed to have gone. Not a sign of one ant, all i did was spray a tiny bit at the base of the windows in my living room.

 

[Sir Deadly]

Fun fact, all of those little black ants in your backyard (Argentine ants) are part of the exact same colony that you’d find overseas!

 

[Shell]

The ants in my apartment have seemed to have conceded defeat.

I saw one ant yesterday. Just the one.

 

[peternorth]

The ants in my apartment have seemed to have conceded defeat.

I saw one ant yesterday. Just the one.

Saw a bevy of ants devouring a dried up worm yesterday. I gave them some water too as they looked thirsty.

Today saw an ant carrying another one, probably injured.
Not all heroes wear capes

 

[HomerThompson]

Time to take down that sign welcoming your insect overlords?

 

[Hamingja]

I've had a few around in the kitchen but omg I made myself some vegemite on toast when I got home from work and I put the knife in the sink and by the time I'd finished eating and took the plate to the sink there were literally hundreds of ants going to and from the knife. They like Vegemite! I put out some combat for them instead