Tag: cleaning

In this case, I hope it gets worse before it gets better

Upon considering the ingredients of my homemade ant bait, and the massive, MASSIVE swarm of ants around the baits I set out, I am concerned that I may have concocted some kind of bacon grease ant beer powder. With yeast, cornmeal, baking powder and bacon grease…seems like once it all ferments we’ll it’s going to be beer powder.  And because when I woke up this morning, the number of ants all up ons the baits had, like, quintupled.  So much of the baits had been taken that they were starting to erode around the bases, tiny little bacon grease ant beer powder granules dusting the back of my sink.  (The parts that weren’t swarmed by hoards of drunken ants, that is.)

It’s like EVERY SINGLE ANT IN INDIANA IS ON MY KITCHEN SINK.  It’s like the word got out last night and they’re all, PARTY AT THE WOESTMANS!

And I most certainly can’t wipe the back of the sink down or I’ll destroy their scent trails.  So I have water spots, fingerprints, dishwashing splatters, ant beer crumbles, a few strewn ant carcasses here and there (ant beer poisoning casualties perhaps), and eleventy billion ants in hot pursuit of whatever I made for them yesterday morning.

Due to the dramatic increase and not so much at all decrease in the ant swarmage, I would have to go on record to say I am Skeptical At Best about this ant killer remedy.  But I’ll give it another couple of days.

If my baits last that long.

I put out 7 yesterday, SEVEN!!!!, and they are all swarmed and decomposing due to the sheer volume of ant nibblers.

In my imagination, here’s what’s happening in the ant nest within the next two hours: KABLOOEY.  

And then they’ll all be dead and not on my sink anymore.

Ants, ants and MORE ANTS

As previously mentioned, the area behind my kitchen sink suddenly became infested with theif ants on Thursday. Since that time, I have scoured my sink and counters twice a day to try to remove their scent trails, scattered cayenne pepper along the entire length of my sink, put out Terro baits, and been pretty much disgusted with the state of affairs in my kitchen. I haaaate putting Terro on my counters since, you know, it is poison.

Sometimes the ants will disappear for half a day or so.

False hope.

This morning, after finishing my research on what kills theif ants (not Terro, they don’t like it!) I mixed up a non-toxic ant bait from bacon grease, cornmeal, yeast and baking powder.

Eh, you say?

The ants are supposed to love it and carry it back to their nest where it expands in their bellies and they swell up and DIE, BABY, DIE. I set the baits out this morning, scattering little bait blobs all over the back of my sink. The ants did not come. They didn’t seem interested this afternoon, either. Then, after dinner, I noticed reddish brown swarming behind my sink again. The baits were consumed with theif ants (gross and yet SO YAY!!) and the ants were carrying little nubbins of bait back to their nest.

Hopefully they are exploding in their nests right now.  Because this is just so, so revolting.