Do Ants Ever Die?

if you got ants and you wanna get rid of 'em real quick, who do you call ? THE ANT SLAYER. He boil up one huge kettle water and just pour the steaming lotion all over those little varmints. Next you call in the Avarian Cleaners and they just goddle up all the little dead bodies. You could always call your local zoo and rent in a pair of ant eaters, that's real fun :wink:

All right, that's exactly what I will do right this moment, John. Hang on...well my my my..that worked. You are really quite brilliant for a Brit

er, what am I supposed to feed these beasts?

Why, ants, of course. If you are out of ants, borrow some.

and Roger, You are positively erudite for a New Mexican? Hmmmm. That doesn't sound right.

Really and truly, the little suckers have vanished from my kitchen...and to paraphrase Poe, "...they took their beaks from out my heart and quit the bust above my door."

heehee - you will attract a Craven if you use language like THAT, Letty!

hmmmm, Deb. I had a handbook on how to attract a Wombat...but it was many and many a year ago in my kingdom by the sea.....but the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful ANT-a-belle-Lee.

"In pace requiescat."

Several hundred ants died in my ktichen last night. Used Windex on them. They are coming inside for the water?

A caption for Bill's picture:

one after the other...but what if an ant were your brother?

for Joanne on Windex a little "gnash":

Ants belong in pants--

let's keep this in context,
Bill Gates requires your windex.
Let us spray:

Ant in my pants, oh no not that.

A few years back I discovered a nest of fire ants inside the case of a hot water tank, which was located inside the closet of a second floor apartment. Since they were in an unprotected ball, I was able to wipe them out with a can of insecticide.

Gorsh, Edgar. Those fire ants are quite dangerous to some people. When we were camping, a friend of mine accidentally stood on a fire ant hill, and in minutes her feet were covered with the red sea. Her feet became swollen and distended. Fortunately, we were able to take care of the problem, but it was quite painful and cause for alarm.

I just remembered a movie about soldier ants. Charlton Heston again...The Naked Jungle, I think.

Here is an aside. I got an update for this thread on my Yahoo account, and I couldn't access it--something about "no posts available on this thread"...not exactly the right words, but something was amiss.

Do you suppose fire ants have replaced gremlins?

I've heard that that message means someone made a post which opened a new page and then deleted it. The link, of course, refers to the blank page, not the entire interaction. . . . unless I'm misremembering the situation that causes this erroneous message.

Ok, Rog. That makes sense to me. Thanks.

Gees, Letty - hope that friend is okay. The fire ant bites I've had in the past developed into ulcerous sores that becme 3 or 4 times the size of the original bite. If I got that many bites I would be afeared of losing a foot!

Wow, Bill,

I think some people are more sensitive than others. This situation with my friend happened some time ago and she is fine. Good grief, in your case, it is possible to make a mountain out of an ant hill

I know the swarm, and that scares me. The picture I always remember is that of the farmer plowing his field, running over a hill and becoming covered with the little vermin!

Bill, do you live in a tropical area? Strangely enough, I have no problem with fire ants where I live, and I'm not certain why. It may be because I live on a golf course, and regular spraying is part of the maintenance. I haven't even seen a palmetto bug (big roach) in a while.

I remember those palmetto bugs from when the family lived in Miami. Thanks for the memories, Letty.

Letty, the times before when I was attacked was when I lived in Huston, where there are many fire ants. We have some in Oklahoma but fortunately none in or around my home. I remember the palmetto bugs in Huston also. I actually like them because they ate the nasty roaches. But, agreed, it was impossible to allow them to be in the house. When I lived in Indonesia we left the lizards in the house because the ate mosquitoes.