Are ants watching us?

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Because I left the kitchen for 20 mins this morning, only to return and find about fifty of them making a beeline for the honeypot LITERALLY as I had left an open honey bear at the end of the table and they were all over it, etiquette be damned. This is not the first time something like this has happened. The Californian breed appear to be stealthier, smarter, sturdier, and greater in number than their inconsequential London counterparts. Leave anything yummy out, and they will be on it within minutes, apparently just beaming down from nowhere. How do they know? Do they have an incredible sense of smell? Or are they always in the shadows, watching, waiting for that open packet of marshmallows or a harmless honey bear?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:29 (twenty-two years ago)

They find the houses with holes for them to crawl into and go for it. Moving urgent and key (or else time to plug up every last ant-friendly gap you find).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

ants aren't watching us all the time, but bacteria are.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

strangest invasion of ants we had was when a line of them had made their way up the walls in the house and into a room into an empty coke can ! admittidely the can had probly been there for a week or so in the summer but there were hundreds of the little fuckers.

So, Yes.

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i am watching you

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

You are not an ant.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Ants are kind of scary if you think about them too much.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

london ants prefer marmite

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

slice of cucumber on the kitchen counter = ridiculously effective ant repellent

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, but you have FUCKING CUCUMBER on your KITCHEN COUNTER!

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

FUCKING CUCUMBER

Dan is smiling somewhere.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Ants have the biggest brains relative to body size of any creature. Anthills are probably anternet-ready supercomputers overrun with trillions upon trillions of "U R all termitez" posts.

― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)

ants are smug little bastards, coz like when we blow ourselves up, they are going to be okay.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

*stomp* "BLAM! and then he was MUCILAGE! he ain't watchin' no more!"

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 31 October 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark, that's a little too scary. Why....YOU'RE ONE OF THEM!!!!!!!

― Skottie, Friday, 31 October 2003 17:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to draw pictures of anthouses when I was a kid and they'd have multiple rooms and fridges and stoves. Sometimes the ants would be wearing clothes. THAT IS ALL

― The Yellow Dart, Saturday, 1 November 2003 00:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Sprinkle cinnamon everywhere, that's what I did and now my bedroom has no ants and it smells like a cookie!

― Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 1 November 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I like cookies.

― The Yellow Dart, Saturday, 1 November 2003 00:16 (twenty-two years ago)

This thread so cries for Simpsons screen caps but Duffzone hsa to not have them anymore! O cruel, ironing fate!

― Leee (Leee), Saturday, 1 November 2003 00:17 (twenty-two years ago)

buy grant's ant traps and put them outside, not inside your house. the ants will go outside, take poison back to their ant home, and kill their relatives. do this a few times a year, or every time you see an ant inside. we used to have them horrible but I started getting really vigilant about this and they hardly ever show up. also, don't leave any sugar out uncovered. this is asking for trouble in CA.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Saturday, 1 November 2003 00:18 (twenty-two years ago)

No ant problems since moving to seattle. Of course, we get these scary bodybuilding leaf munching red and black ants, but they seem to not care to mess with humans and invade their houses.

Ants conceptually may be scary (Leningen to thread!) but they are neatness snobs to the max. No worries about getting any germs from ant-trodden areas. They'll also take care of wasps nests around the house too, if they find em.

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 1 November 2003 00:26 (twenty-two years ago)

OH NO, BULLDOG ANT, OH NO!

http://www.msstate.edu/Entomology/bulldog%20ant.jpg

― donut bitch (donut), Saturday, 1 November 2003 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)

ten months pass...

PWN3D

― adam. (nordicskilla), Thursday, 16 September 2004 02:40 (twenty-one years ago)

i for one welcome our new ant overlords.

(i can't belive no one said this last time)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Thursday, 16 September 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

THEY WILL WIN.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 16 September 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

amazingly we haven't had a single ant in the house this summer after our 'rampage' last year, it's like 'they know', yer know?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 16 September 2004 12:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Ants are looking at us - I've seen them do it; if I put my hand in their way, for example. There's a difference between looking and watching though, I guess.

― Kevin Gilchrist (Mr Fusion), Thursday, 16 September 2004 12:31 (twenty-one years ago)

i know they smell us. and our delicious food.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 16 September 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.duffzone.co.uk/framegrab_script.php?img=1f13/01112004120128.jpg

― Leeeter van den Hoogenband (Leee), Thursday, 16 September 2004 22:12 (twenty-one years ago)

one year passes...

PWN3D again.

Woke up at 3am to find our kitchen sink swarming with several thousand ants.

We are clean people and so is our house. Seriously, what the fuck?

― 100% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 September 2005 17:32 (twenty years ago)

Hmmm, no ants at all this past summer. But LOTS of fruit flies.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 30 September 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0786702923.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

ants no, fleas yes.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 30 September 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

xxpost, that would give me the creeps.

― AaronK (AaronK), Friday, 30 September 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, even with no fruit/food in the house there's always ONE fruit fly lurking around waiting to reproduce.

But with the ant thing I think it's pretty suspicious that 100% Nice just happend to wake up at 3am, the exact time the ants were swarming. I think they're calling you.

― laurence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 30 September 2005 17:52 (twenty years ago)

Me and CarsmileSteve think alike...

"The spacecraft has apparently been taken over - "conqured" if you will - by a master race of giant space ants. It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain: there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here. And I for one welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality I could be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves."

http://alpha.zimage.com/~ant/antfarm/read/Simpsons1F13/SimpsonsAntSlave.jpg

― kickitcricket (kickitcricket), Friday, 30 September 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

That is my single favourite Simpsons moment ever.

― Andrew (enneff), Friday, 30 September 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

Adam-

You're really not supposed to have ant problems in the bay area until it starts raining again. What exactly are you doing?

― mikef (mfleming), Friday, 30 September 2005 18:46 (twenty years ago)

not much. We made lamb, watched Netflix and went to sleep. ANd then it began.

― 100% Nice (nordicskilla), Friday, 30 September 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

That is my single favourite Simpsons moment ever.

It's right on up there. And of course not all that far removed from what I figure most LA newsguys would do similarly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 30 September 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)

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