Ants like pepper mints, I know from experience. So maybe you could set some sort of container up and make the insides really slippery so when they climb up the sides to get to the pepper mints inside they slip in and can't get out because of the slippery walls, I just thought this up so it probably won't work but it's worth a try (I think)!
To rid your home of ants, you must first gain their trust. Ants have a rigid social structure, so in order to get close enough to destroy them they must accept you as one of their own. You must bring the queen food offerings, and you will be expected to groom her antennae and thorax. It won't be easy, and it will take some time to establish yourself as a member of the colony, but once you do you will be privy to their plots and intrigues. Ants are well known to be scandalous gossips, and you can use this to your advantage. By turning the ants against each other, you will erode their society from within and they will fight among themselves until they all starve to death.
There's nothing you can do without killing them. The house is theirs now and you will have to move out.
On the plus side, with the ants moving into your old home it means that there'll be an empty ant colony for you to move into. Move yourself into their old ant colony and become the new queen.
Now that you're the queen of your new ant colony you can start reproducing and forming an army of workers to bring you food, look after the newborns and overall run your new colony. After a few months you will have grown your new colony to a decent size. Now you can start sending your humans to invade the ants house.
The ants will probably try to stop the attack/infestation by sealing off openings such as doors and windows, or laying down defenses such as biscuits tainted with cyanide or pepper spray. Do not be pushed back however, continue to send in your army of humans in greater numbers and eventually the ants will be overrun.
The ants will become tired of the human infestation and will eventually move out to find a new home. You have won your home back and gotten rid of the ants. You are safe for now...At least until bears start invading.
There is the risk that you will enjoy the life of a queen human and will wish to stay in your colony. If this happens, I wish you all the best in your new life.
http://www.terminix.com/exterminators/ Here you go. You can't really do anything about it without killing them. If it makes you feel any better the ants probably don't care about you and just want your food.
Why do you admonish Ladybonkers for her/his compassion for tiny life forms? Do you pray to God at night and ask him/her to "grow some" and remorselessly destroy you?
Ants are essential to our natural environment and we take them (and many other small creatures) for granted a lot. You certainly are not required to grow anything on your body in order to be considered a strong person.
Now, I hate killing them too. I hate killing anything, actually. There is, fortunately, a way to keep them out without killing them. Mix together white vinegar with water and then spray or wipe across areas you believe they are getting in through. Ants hate vinegar and it will burn them if they come into contact with it, which is why they avoid it and in turn keep them out your home. Do this repeatedly until they are discouraged and search elsewhere for shelter.
Why do you admonish Ladybonkers for her/his compassion for tiny life forms? Do you pray to God at night and ask him/her to "grow some" and remorselessly destroy you?
'tiny life forms' sounds more adorable than it was probably intended.
That's also not a great comparison, which I won't go further into since it will just start a needless religious debate.
I'll just say this, killing things and asking for somebody to end your life aren't really comparable...Unless the ants are actually praying for Ladybonkers to kill them (which I doubt).
We are all one life force, the child of the Universal Earth Mother. To extinguish part of that life force takes away from us all. To kill and to ask to be killed are one and the same.
I'll just say this, killing things and asking for somebody to end your life aren't really comparable...Unless the ants are actually praying for Ladybonkers to kill them (which I doubt).
This cracked me up cause that was so true. That was a terrible comparison, the ants are not praying to be killed. I cannot stop laughing at how fast this got serious.
We are all one life force, the child of the Universal Earth Mother. To extinguish part of that life force takes away from us all. To kill and to ask to be killed are one and the same.
Why do you admonish Ladybonkers for her/his compassion for tiny life forms? Do you pray to God at night and ask him/her to "grow some" and remorselessly destroy you?
Still waters run deep, my friend. Perhaps my lack of posts belies a greater wisdom. I can shatter your preconceived notions of reality, oranges_ate_you. Let me rock your world.
If we're really talking about killing ants, I genuinely think us humans are the worst "pests" of all, and I can only hope that one day we will let go of the incredibly selfish belief that we are supreme and I hope that we can learn to share this planet with the many wonderful creatures which reside in it as well as us.
Still waters run deep, my friend. Perhaps my lack of posts belies a greater wisdom. I can shatter your preconceived notions of reality, oranges_ate_you. Let me rock your world.
Yes like how not to get upset over every little thing people post. Or wait, did I learn that from Noiru or Mariah or Jake or Cory or one of the others?
