Ants

[only_more_so]

I hate bugs. Last night I started noticing ants. They somehow managed to climb on my couch and onto the board I rest my laptop on (I hate burning my legs). I tracked them down and found that the soda spill I thought I'd cleaned up, hadn't been as cleaned up as I thought.

So this morning I cleaned up what attracted the ants in the first place, and anything else they might have been curious about. I also took a more active role. I bought the bug bait where they take the food back home, share it with their friends and then they all die.

I also looked up home cures and learned that ants don't like spices. I have some old Cinnamon which apparently is one of the spices ants don't like. I built a little walls of Cinnamon around a couple of bait traps and the ants point of entry. Sure enough, the little buggers won't cross the line.

Anyway, now that they aren't sneaking up on me, I find them strangely fascinating. I've actually been watching them as they search for a way around the wall of cinnamon. Maybe next time I will make a cinnamon maze, with a bait trap in the middle. Or maybe not, that seems too cruel, I just want to get rid of them.

 

[rgraham666]

When I was a kid I wanted to be an entomologist, specializing in the social insects.

One of the more interesting moments of my life was seeing an ant dairy farm.

There are species of ants that 'herd' aphids. They clean them, protect them and 'milk' them for honeydew. They carry the honeydew in a special stomach back to the nest where some ants are used as storage tanks.

Fascinating insects.

 

[Guest]

We bought an ant farm for our daughter one year for Christmas.

Thread - http://forum.literotica.com/showthread.php?t=234783&highlight=ants+marching

Creepy angry ants.

 

[Nirvanadragones]

I hate bugs. Last night I started noticing ants. They somehow managed to climb on my couch and onto the board I rest my laptop on (I hate burning my legs). I tracked them down and found that the soda spill I thought I'd cleaned up, hadn't been as cleaned up as I thought.

So this morning I cleaned up what attracted the ants in the first place, and anything else they might have been curious about. I also took a more active role. I bought the bug bait where they take the food back home, share it with their friends and then they all die.

I also looked up home cures and learned that ants don't like spices. I have some old Cinnamon which apparently is one of the spices ants don't like. I built a little walls of Cinnamon around a couple of bait traps and the ants point of entry. Sure enough, the little buggers won't cross the line.

Anyway, now that they aren't sneaking up on me, I find them strangely fascinating. I've actually been watching them as they search for a way around the wall of cinnamon. Maybe next time I will make a cinnamon maze, with a bait trap in the middle. Or maybe not, that seems too cruel, I just want to get rid of them.

Bwah!

I've never had them in this country. But I noticed a few this morning in the kitchen. I didn't do anything as remotely creative or proactive as you did. I kind of just ignored them, and hoped they'd go away.

I hope they're not transferable via Lit.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Ants will keep down the termites. If you want them out of the house but not out of the walls, just put a bit of hamburger near the base of the foundation every week. Peaceful coexistance.

 

[only_more_so]

Bwah!

I've never had them in this country. But I noticed a few this morning in the kitchen. I didn't do anything as remotely creative or proactive as you did. I kind of just ignored them, and hoped they'd go away.

I hope they're not transferable via Lit.

Well, if it were just a couple, I probably would have ignored them, but it was a whole line of them, right through the middle of my living room, which is also my kitchen (open floor plan). So when they are in the hundreds, things have to be done.

Rob, I agree, they are fascinating creatures. I just want them to be fascinating outside of my home.

 

[impressive]

Rob, I agree, they are fascinating creatures. I just want them to be fascinating outside of my home.

Yes.

I have visions of you casting a cinnamon circle.

 

[Misty_Morning]

When I was a kid I used to be fascinated with ants. Then I moved back down to the south.

The first week I was here, I was barefoot and a few ants were climbing on my toes. Someone said "watch out for the fire ants!"

Before I could say "fire ants?", I felt searing pain from their bites.

So ants aren't cool any more.

 

[Roxanne Appleby]

The local paper had a feature a couple weeks ago saying that 'tis the season when they go walkabout, and if they can find a way in (which they can) they will. It helped me relax some - at least I know it's not me - but I still hate the little buggers, and scrunch them in squares of tp whenever I see one.

 

[R. Richard]

I had ants [no fire ants.] The little bastards dug a nest in my front yard. I tried ant poison, to no avail. I then poured a little drain cleaner down their ant hill entrance. Ants dont like drain cleaner at all! They left.

[They did leave me a note, in ant, written on a dried leaf. The message was, "This is NOT a drain."]

 

[Guest]

I had ants [no fire ants.] The little bastards dug a nest in my front yard. I tried ant poison, to no avail. I then poured a little drain cleaner down their ant hill entrance. Ants dont like drain cleaner at all! They left.

[They did leave me a note, in ant, written on a dried leaf. The message was, "This is NOT a drain."]

 

[SlickTony]

Ants will keep down the termites. If you want them out of the house but not out of the walls, just put a bit of hamburger near the base of the foundation every week. Peaceful coexistance.

That reminds me of a scene in That Hideous Strength, the 3rd novel in C.S. Lewis's SF trilogy. One of the characters, a woman named Jane, is in an interview with a man who's supposed to be a kind of prophet. During the interview he breaks for lunch--a very simple meal of bread and wine. (Jane is offered a more substantial lunch later). When he's done eating, he dumps the crumbs off his plate onto the floor, blows a little whistle and all these mice come out and gather up the crumbs. He blows the whistle again and the mice all leave.

He explains to Jane, who is fascinated but slightly creeped out by having all these mice around her feet, that humans have a desire to have crumbs cleared away, and mice have a desire to gather them, and it ought never to have been a cause of war between them.

 

[R. Richard]

Quote:
Originally Posted by R. Richard
I had ants [no fire ants.] The little bastards dug a nest in my front yard. I tried ant poison, to no avail. I then poured a little drain cleaner down their ant hill entrance. Ants dont like drain cleaner at all! They left.

[They did leave me a note, in ant, written on a dried leaf. The message was, "This is NOT a drain."]

You may laugh, but it really works. Apparently the residue of the drain cleaner is something the ants can't stand and they abandon the nest.

[I thought that the note was a bit snippy.]

 

[only_more_so]

Apparently the ants are bugging other people. There have been calls from others in my condo building to the management company, so a professional is coming on Wednesday.

Although, I will say I made a serious dent in the ant population.

 

[DesertPirate]

Apparently the ants are bugging other people. There have been calls from others in my condo building to the management company, so a professional is coming on Wednesday.

Although, I will say I made a serious dent in the ant population.

Try wiping down surfaces they are crawling over with 50/50 clorox and water, kills them every time.

 

[CrimsonMaiden]

We generally have problems with ants every summer. Hubby puts down this powder stuff around the doors and windows, and it keeps them out.

This year, our problem is fruit flies. The normal ones get in with the constant in and out of the kids, and then they reproduce (the flies, not the kids, lol). I cannot get rid of them and it's just nasty. (The babies congregate around the kitchen sink.)

 

[carrie-on]

Wiping your counters down with vinegar works well, too.

 

[only_more_so]

I won! Well, at least I didn't see any ants when I got home. The exterminator guy is still coming tomorrow, but I still won!