Ants and Snow Do Not Belong on the Same Page

[chomiji]

I mean, WTF? I'm used to having ants in the kitchen in the spring and in the fall. It's one of the prices you pay for living in a cool old house in a neighborhood where lots of the homeowners are passionate about not using gobs of pesticides in their yards.

But ants in February? While the snow is pelting down? Nuh-uh. What are these, special cold-resistant Boreal ants imported from Canada?

D-:

And while we're at it, WTF snow again??? And more in Friday night? The National Weather Service is not usually confidant enough to say 90% chance of snow this far ahead of time - but that's what they're saying!

Comments

[nouvellebrielle.livejournal.com]

I'm so sick of ants in infested Singapore that it was a nice change to not have seen that many (if any) in the UK. But that being said, your super-resistant ants sound diabolical. Maybe you could sneak some spray?

And the snow. ): Winter is not nice, although more than snow, I really really hate the ice on the ground that comes later on. And sludge. Which is just disgusting.

[chomiji]

I usually use poison bait on ants. Spray stuff gets into the air, and the place where the ants seem to be coming out of the woodwork along the floor is close enough to where our rabbits live that I wouldn't want to risk it. But the bait is self-contained - basically a covered plastic dish with some sugar-and-peanut-butter ant food laced with poison, and little holes for the ants to crawl in. They take the food back to their nest and feed it to everybody ... .