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Posted By: Mike Jolley <mjolley@onlinehonesty.com> In Response To: Here's what I do (Jan Nuzzo)
Sunday, 17 July 2005, at 11:27 p.m.
> When the going get tough (either very rainy-the little critters are trying
> to escape being drowned OR very dry- they're looking for water) I call my
> exterminator. Usually an outside treatment will work (spray in dry
> weather, crystal treatment in wet weather). However, inside, plain old
> soap works very well. You can mix some dish detergent with water and spray
> the surfaces where the "scout" ants are found and, if you see a
> trail, spray it to its origin. The scouts are looking for something worth
> telling their pals about. If they do, you will see a trail traveling to
> the goodies. Continue to spray the trail and the surfaces with soapy water
> or something commercial like 409 and they will eventually get discouraged.
> They just don't like soap!
> Jan
Of all the responses, this one makes the most sense. When scouts find food, they grab as much as they can and run straight back to feed the pupae, meanwhile secreting a chemical "follow this" trail. If there's only one good food source, there's only one trail, though it might be dispersed by the random search patterns of individual ants.
The original asker of this question is in the unenviable position of having at least one entire colony focused 100% on his sugar. Messing up the trail is one idea, but theses are the dreaded "tiny ants" that come in vast numbers and have dozens of invisible trails. The only thing that can be done is to kill the queen(s).
This isn't easy. When I was a kid we had the regular medium-sized black ants, the kind you use for ant farms (and I did a lot of experimenting on them as a kid). My parents tried to kill that colony with every kind of chemical. I wanted it to survive, after feeding one of the ants to a wolf spider in a mason jar and the ant killed the spider! Talk about bravery. I've loved ants ever since. I was also impressed at how they extended their colony deep inside our concrete porch stairway. That must have taken a lot of work, but it preserved their colony for many years; Smart move.
The only thing that eventually killed the colony was a total excavation and the installation of a greenhouse. This happened many years after I moved out of the house and became an adult. The colony survived at least 15 years total.
I've learned a lot from those ants. They're always searching for opportunities, and when they find one they stick with it. When it's gone, they've already found a new one. Each little ant has the strength to take on a spider, yet they can tolerate losing half their population to unknown disasters like chemicals. The queen is buried in a concrete bunker. Somehow they construct their colony such that when there's a flood they don't all drown. I think we've all proven that any given ant colony is much smarter than any given human.
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