I've just killed a colony of ants. And I feel bad about it.

[I, Cosh]

So all this is your fault?

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[Tanky]

Completely agree with Mr Floyd. Killing things is never as much fun as it oughta be.

Right, I now have to go to work and play with line cleaner, cheap ale and a pub full of miserable old scrotes. Who are, of course exceptions.

[House of Usher]

If they were coming into your home you did the right thing. If they were a general nuisance in your garden or just minding their own business, then you were probably being a bit harsh.

Don't know about 'ant spray'. There's a sweet, sticky poison gel you can put down in little drops that they take back to the colony and kills them all.

[Wils]

There's a sweet, sticky poison gel you can put down in little drops that they take back to the colony and kills them all.

Before I moved, I had an an infestation and that stuff didn't work. A combination of finding out where their nest was and few kettles of boiling water did the trick, though.

[Quirkafleeg]

>There's a sweet, sticky poison gel

Seem to remember back in the 70s it had the fantastically un-pc name of Nippon

[House of Usher]

I think it still does. I used it to stop an ants' nest on a roof terrace coming in through the kitchen door of a first floor flat I lived in.

On another occasion I think it was ant powder I used on the entrance of a very small ant colony that had ill-advisedly established itself in a crack in the floor of my understairs cupboard in another house I lived in. That did the trick as well.

Generally though, I live and let live.

I also lived in a house with a small lawn, and where a seed tray had blown over on the grass, ants had pushed up soil to fill it from underneath, and were using it as a nursery for their eggs and larvae. When I discovered this by lifting the seed tray, I carefully replaced it and didn't disturb it when mowing the grass. I just had a look at it now and then to see what was happening.

[scutfink]

ny chance you can come round our place monty, we've got a persistant ant problem in our back yard and I just can't locate the nest, in a few weeks they'll probably work their way back into the kitchen, bastards...

[ThryllSeekyr]

To much of this sort of thing is going to drastically effect our ecosystem.

[House of Usher]

You what??

[feridian]

Once they get into the house there's nothing else you can do.

[scutfink]

They never actually nest in the house, they just make hunting forays under the back door...

Anyone know where I can get a pet Aardvark?

[Satanist]

You feel bad??? What about the poor ants? If sci-fi has taught me anything its when the insects mutate and grow to mammoth proportions people like you are onto a hiding!


C'mon the Ants!!!

[Adrian Bamforth]

Don't worry Monty - it's a little known fact that ants have an amazingly short life-span. It's only when we observe them through a magnifying glass that we realise how quickly they age - after only a few seconds they just sort of shrivel up and die.

















(Jack B Quick by Alan Moore, Tomorrow Stories #12)

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