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!

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[chomiji]

Does your cat actually eat the ants? These are those teensy "sugar ants."

Anyway, they've mostly gone now. I put cinnamon on the floor around where they were coming up onto the counters and then put a poison bait where they seemed to be coming out of the woodwork. There haven't been anymore on the counter for a couple of days.

[avierra.livejournal.com]

Well, we had two different sizes, the teeny ones, which they like to chase, and the bigger ones which they do eat for some reason. D: You'd think they'd get stung, but if they do, it doesn't seem to bother them.

I never heard of using cinnamon. I have been kind of afraid to use anything poisonous, but cinnamon is definitely doable.

[chomiji]

Cinnamon doesn't kill them, but it messes up their scent-tracking, so they can't follow the scent trail they've laid down to the food source anymore.

It should be fairly fresh cinnamon. Cinnamon oil makes much less of a mess, but it's harder to find.

You'll see them running around wildly and frantically trying to clean the scent off their antennae when they get close to it. It used to make me feel mean when I was younger, but I've become hard-hearted in my old age.