Earlier this year our home started being invaded by ants. Fortunately, these were not the fire ants like we had back in Texas that want to tear flesh from your bones. These guys were just looking for sweets and have no defense, so I decided to do a set of experiments before calling in the pros.
I will not go on about the set-up and tests, just the results:
(I'll use the term LOVE and HATE here because attracted-to and not-attracted-to are much too clinical and do not encapsulate the drama I witnessed in the ants.)
Sugar Ants:
- LOVE Popsicle juice
- HATE gasoline
- LOVE dried Popsicle juice
- HATE Habanero pepper juice
- LOVE Jamacian Rum
- HATE 99 bananas (schnapps)
- LOVE Fantastik® and Formula 409
- HATE Pine-Sol®
- LOVE the freezer (until they freeze to death)
- HATE the oven and grill (when ON)
- LOVE TERRO Liquid Ant killer
- HATE anything that moves
There probably will be no future clinical trials, however; if you have other helpful ant observations, please post in the comments below!
leave banana peels out on the counter. the ants will leave the counters alone.
ReplyDeleteother than that you can't really ask for much, chances are they lived there long before you and their ain't much you can do to stop them completely
Yes, ants are a mystery to me. You kill some and they come back. You would think when their buddys don't come back to the nest or they see them dead by the trail, they would high tail it to another place, but no, they just crawl over their dead buddys bodies and go to their death.
ReplyDeleteI also have an ant observation. If you have ants in your cereal, lay a piece of cantaloupe outside the open bag, in about an hour, all the ants are out of the cereal and on the cantaloupe...Put the cereal back in the cabinet.
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