There always seems to be an influx of ants in the house after it rains, and it's been raining here quite a bit. A couple of weeks ago, I came home from work and noticed that I was walking all over a trail of ants coming in and out of our trash can in the kitchen. Shudder. I bleached the heck out of everything and have tried to make sure that nothing remotely edible is left in the trash, which seemed to work nicely—no ants ever since.
Then yesterday night, I found them in the freezer.
THE FREEZER. WTF?
Not the pantry, which is like unsealed food paradise, but the freezer. There were piles of them in there. It looks like they might've gotten in through somewhere near the door and made it about two inches in before freezing to death. It was disgusting. But we bleached and wiped them away and hoped for the best.
This morning I opened the freezer and lo and behold, another frozen ant graveyard.
So why the freezer expeditions? You'd think that maybe they'd eventually realize, hey, no one is coming out of there. Maybe we shouldn't go in and warn everyone else of the potential danger. Or maybe that's the problem: they're hard-wired to follow each other, so they keep on following each other inside the freezer and by the time they figure out that it's not the best idea, it's too late. No one survives to tell the tale to the rest of the brigade. But whatever—I'm not an entomologist, just someone who wants the crazy ants out of her freezer. Any ideas on how to stop them?
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@Flem
ugh...and i thought my ant problem was bad.
but that person said that they kept their freezer out in the garden on top of a block of styrofoam packaging, where the ants were nesting...none had actually made it inside the freezer itself.
so i guess the mystery continues.
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