Mom, can I eat these new ants?
Thank you for asking, Pia. The answer is Absolutely Not!
The ants returned over the weekend and Mom took that as a personal smack in the face, given she had de-ant-ed this house just a month ago. This batch, unfortunately, seemed to come in with the latest pet food shipment, which had sat outside on the porch after delivery for about an hour or in ant-time, all the time in the world to stake a claim.
We didn’t empty the delivery box until the following day and by then, the ants had already made themselves at home in multiple rooms. Why they hadn’t made popcorn and turned on the TV is baffling, since they found in so many places to wander about. But Mom used her trusty systematic method of rounding them up to a central location and then, lets them have it by way of juicy, fresh ant bait. Bye, bye ants. Have a lovely trip elsewhere!
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A Colehaus Cats flashback:
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2020 – Wash Day
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2015 – Not-So-Wee-One Wednesday
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2013 – Kissing Wars – 2nd Battle
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I can sympathize!
Every year, we too have to prove to the ants that this is our house, not theirs.
Ants can be nasty intruders in any home!
We hate ants.
I was thinking of you this weekend when my cats pointed out some small ants we had.
Ugh. Ants are so yucky! We are glad Mom’s system worked on evicting those little pests!
Ants do not wait to be invited and are everywhere before you blink. I hope your bait has “persuaded” them to go elsewhere.
The warms bring out the ants. TBT stomps on the scouts. We sniff them, but they have a “sharp” smell we dont like. He finds where they come in an sprays a sticky stuff, No poison, just “sticky”. When the ant-scouts don’t return, they dont think there is anything good to eat in our direction.
He leaves them alone in the yard though. So do we.
Oh no, not again!