To Kill A Mocking Ant
Posted by Robert on the 7th of December, 2004 at 6:00 PM GMT0. Permalink.Tags: Ants
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When I posted this, I was listening to: Pulp - Babies
I did battle with the ants the second time last night.
The last time I did battle with the ants was shortly after we moved into the new place. I was cleaning off the back patio with the hose pipe and squirted water into the mysterious brick area where a tree used to be. Moments after I had moved onto a new section, thousands, of ants were migrating out of the bricks. I was worried that they might find their way inside, so I decided to murder as many of them as I could. I had small hopes of killing all the ants, but there were far too many, and I was not that bored.
How did I kill them? At first I thought I'd water log them. I realized that wasn't going to work, so I went inside to look for something that seemed poisonous. We didn't have any ant killer, and if we did, it wouldn't have killed them on contact. I ended up with a can of grill de-greaser the previous owners had left us. That did the trick FAST and almost took me with it.
Last night, the little bastards found their way into the house. A bit of a cookie had fallen under the fridge. Dunno how. Paul and I pulled the fridge away and sprayed animal stain remover on them. That worked well. We cleaned up the little ant carcasses and went for our jog. Later that night, the fuckers were back. It was late, and I was pissed. I reached for the grill de-greaser.
I started by spraying their trail. It killed them all, and even cleaned the floor up a good bit. Little did I realize there was a backup army hidden behind the baseboard. They waited for me to clean up the mess and then started coming out.
I turned the de-greaser on them, making a very large, very bubbly, very toxic blob of de-greaser goo on the baseboard. As I sprayed, I made sure that the spray was going under the baseboard. I waited 10 minutes, and cleaned up the excess, leaving a good amount under the baseboard. I then left a trail of Ajax so that they might (hopefully) confuse Ajax with cookie.
When I got up this morning, there were no ants on my floor and the Ajax looked untouched. I guess I won the battle.
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by Jeremy on the 9th of December, 2004 at 6:00 PM GMT0. Permalink.yey... pulp...
the post says ajax, but the pic is comet... I'm thinking I'm being mislead.
Comet
by Robert on the 9th of December, 2004 at 6:00 PM GMT0. Permalink.You aren't being mislead. It's the same thing. I'm just used to saying Ajax. In reality, I used the Comet name brand. And to be honest, the grill cleaner pictured is not the same brand I used. Oh, well.
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by Jeremy on the 9th of December, 2004 at 6:00 PM GMT0. Permalink.you are soooooo fucked
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by Robert on the 9th of December, 2004 at 6:00 PM GMT0. Permalink.And the tremors are 300 miles away from where I am.
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by Robert on the 9th of December, 2004 at 6:00 PM GMT0. Permalink.I've heard that one before. Still doing fine.