My house is infested with ants!
We had a bunch last year so I put traps out and they seemed to subside, somewhat.
This year the spring thaw came and I was greeted by about 100 of the little bastards in my dry food cupboard! I have now taken a more offensive approach (much to the pleading of my wife) and switched to the gel that you place around and they take back to their queen and eventually kills the entire colony.
It has me thinking, how long until humans try to implement this sort of chemical warfare? It could be used in political and religious wars to the great advantage of the aggressor. Make nice with your enemy, give them a gift (trojan horse anyone?), and they will die while thinking what a nice, generous friend you are.
Why stop there? This could be a long awaited cure for the homeless, addicted and diseased as well. Come to the food bank/methodone clinic and we’ll help you.
This has an unprecedented amount of uses. Unwanted relatives, annoying salespersons, pets that you are tired of feeding.
On the otherhand I suppose it never worked in Batman. I guess we’ll just have to stick with blowing each other up.
Wicked
I find the powdered stuff works best, but you’re right the gel tastes way better.
We always had them on bathurst. Ants out front, rats out back in the pit and racoons in the walls. In the city its not a bad idea to keep an ant colony going in or near your apartment. They keep out their natural competitor the cockroach- and i’ll take ants over cockroaches any day.
Can you imagine? When salesmen leave your home they head back to a nest. Carving out tunnels with ginsu knives and padding their walls with partially digested encyclopedias.
Great blog title!
later dude
By: remistevens on April 9, 2009
at 1:42 pm
Ewwww you have ants! Grosss!
By: Ur Wifey on April 11, 2009
at 4:30 am
Hey, I know all of your aunts. If I can be of any help you have my number.
By: lumpy on April 11, 2009
at 12:14 pm
Call Monsanto… you are one gene away from wiping out ants from the surface of the planet.
But then again…
Right! I had the same thought. I’m talking to the endless line up my bathroom wall; trying to get them to take me to their leader. I want to impress them with the fact that we are all much better off if they would take a different route.
There has only been one casualty from the colony so far, seriously, it was beyond me,I hate sharing my tooth brush; I was just about to put the thing into my mouth.
Exuvia
By: Exuvia on April 16, 2009
at 11:08 pm
A Trojan horse; hey! you can find one on every shelf in the supermarket. It looks like wheat, it looks like sugar, it looks like milk, it looks like…
What is really dumb with image and likeness is that you think you are getting it but you are not. The stupid horse packed in a colorful box is full of NOTHING.
Nothing for something and you get kicked for free.
I say brethren get up in arms against life’s empty promises. Down with the horses and up with the ants; they are not fooled by margarine.
By: Exuvia on April 16, 2009
at 11:18 pm