I had ants in my kitchen a while back. They were a different species than I was used to seeing, but they were easily dispatched with Terro, a wonderful poison that kills them slowly so they can take it back to the queen.
Lately, I’ve had a new species of ant in my kitchen. They are the same small size as any of the other kinds of ants that have invaded my kitchen, but they have large, blocky heads. I put Terro out as usual, and they really liked it. In fact, they cleaned it right off the counter. I put more out. They cleaned that off too. I’ve been putting Terro out for ten days and they continue to come eat it. Are they reproducing faster than they die? Are they immune to Terro? Have I bred some kind of super ant with my constant use of poison?
I cleaned off the counter last night. Maybe if I quit feeding them Terro they’ll go away.
Well, maybe now that you’ve put them in the habit of coming to your sink to get Terro, you could try some other method of extermination, like tiny machine guns.
Or shovels.
Or, a Warren Buffet ukulele.
Kill, Kill, KILL!
If there were an institution of higher learning near your home, I’d venture to guess they had grown immune to Terro through proximal exposure to college cafeteria food. Sadly, I have no good explanation for this phenomenon, other than that perhaps this nest of ants was raised on old sci-fi flicks where giant insects exposed to massive doses of radiation wound up wiping out lots of people before eventually being done in by, oh, Mothra or somebody…still doesn’t explain the blocky heads (unless their parents bound them like the Chinese bind feet…do ants find blocky heads more attractive than pointier ones? Sounds like a good science experiment….)
“Carol, you been hittin’ the sauce again?!”