We have ants! It all started Sunday night when we noticed a trail of ants devouring the cat's food. We followed the trail to our pantry. We had to empty everything out of our pantry, throw away anything that wasn't sealed tight ,and kill the ants. But these ants would NOT be defeated... by morning, they were back, and back again in the afternoon. After fighting them for two days, we had no other choice, we decided to feed them, and let them be our pets.
Okay, not totally, but we are feeding them. We've heard that if you put corn meal out, the ants will take it back to their home and then eat it. When they do, their bodies can not digest it, and they will die. We didn't know what else to do, so we tried it. Last night, we put corn meal out, and this morning, they were back. This time there were even more of them! The good news is that they are in fact going for the corn meal. They have been working so hard all day long on taking the food back to their home. All day long! How long is this going to take? Two days? Three days? A week?! Maybe we shouldn't have put that much corn meal out. What I'm wondering is what will they do when they run out of corn meal? Will they go for other food in our house? Will they try to eat our cats? Or will they go back to their home and eat up?
I've had some time to watch these little worker ants and ponder about them. I wonder if the women folk are back at the colony setting the table for the feast the men folk are preparing for them. Maybe the Queen Ant is bossing the little worker ants around, telling them not to stop working. Some of the not-so-faithful worker ants have stopped to enjoy the corn meal, and they've died.
Well let's hope this works, because it is KILLING me to just sit by and let these ants parade around my home! I guess if it doesn't work, we've just supplied them with enough food to last until next Spring. We'll see....
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