Arent ya supposed to ask them to leave? Just say ''please go away ants''. Or something(Original post by glance)
I have just been out in the garden ant-killing again. It seems every few weeks I go out there and puff some ant-killer powder over them. They die before your eyes, and then you move on to the next nest. But they always come back, and now they come back in larger numbers than ever! They are destroying the garden. And check out this news report from last year- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asi...ic/2807289.stm - they're taking over!![]()
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Heh, so do IHave to get my little brother to get rid of them for me
...no flying creepies!!!
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- 14-08-2004 13:48
My mum pours boiling water in the nests and then leaves plates of jam outside the back door - the good ants will just eat the stuff from teh edges and not come inside, the greedy ants will wade into the middle and get stuck and die.
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My mum pours boiling water in the nests and then leaves plates of jam outside the back door - the good ants will just eat the stuff from teh edges and not come inside, the greedy ants will wade into the middle and get stuck and die. -
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Hey these ants sound as though they are almost as destructive as humans! -
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They have nothing on us... -
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- 14-08-2004 15:01
nothing compared to some fungi which, in the right conditions (not that this would ever happen) could grow to the size of earth in less than a week.
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- 14-08-2004 19:32
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nothing compared to some fungi which, in the right conditions (not that this would ever happen) could grow to the size of earth in less than a week.
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- 14-08-2004 19:36
I got bad goosebumps on my scalp the moment I read that.
I've had bad experiences with ants before.. I kept using that ant poison stuff and it worked. One day a few months later, I put on an old coat of mine. When I put my hands into the pocket, they were FULL of thousands of dead ants, queen ants and eggs. I was screaming and the scene still haunts me.
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- 14-08-2004 19:46
The Empire of the Ants is an alarming story by H G Wells about ants taking over the world...perhaps it shouldn't be let into Australia. Don't want to give them ideas...
There's also a short story by Italo Calvino about Argentine ants... -
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- 14-08-2004 19:57
"When they arrived in Australia, in 1939, a change in their structure occurred, changing their behaviour so that they are not aggressive towards one another"
-from BBC article
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. I hate ants, and all other insects.
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(Original post by celestial)
. I hate ants, and all other insects.
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- 15-08-2004 09:49
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(Original post by shushimeng)
LOL
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(Original post by Everdawn)
So you have noticed the newbie spamming as well?
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(Original post by shushimeng)
yeah long time ago, but i was trying to 'ignore' it
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well the poor newbie has now been added to my hit list.
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- 15-08-2004 10:00
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We don't have ants this year!
We just have wasps instead -
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(Original post by shushimeng)
it doesn't matter to me that much as it used to, since when 'General Chat' is going downhill. Most of my good mates here are gone
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