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Are common house ants cannibals?
On Aug 21, 12:01*pm, Donita Luddington wrote:
Are ants cannibals? A huge trail of ants (many hundreds) was on my kitchen counter last night so I sprayed them with vinnegar (I was out of windex so I used vinnegar instead). Being late, and wishing the vinnegar to discourage new foragers, I retired for the evening. Much to my chagrin, another, even larger swarm of Argentine ants had taken over my counter top, this morning - and the dead ants seem to have disappeared. I was surprised. So, I sprayed 'em again and left the area for a while. Sure enough, yet another swarm replaced the second, and I noticed some carrying away the dead bodies of their camerades. My question..... Are ants cannibals or did the inadvertant pickling entice them to cannibalism? Sure, they'll eat any old dead bug. Stop spraying and get some ant traps with the poison they take back to their nests, and put down some boric acid powder such as Terro http://www.terro.com/antdust.php . It's the best way to control them. R |
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