So obviously if some food or something is left out, ants will get all over it. But sometimes I will see 1 or 2 ants by themselves, in the areas where food might get left. Do they send out scouts that look for food, then go back like "hey guys, it's some shit on the counter, let's go!"? Is that how they work? I never see a lot of them unless there is actually something for them to eat. But I sometimes see random ones walking around alone. I always smash the shit out of them, thinking it will prevent more from coming. Sometimes I've thought about smashing just his ass, so he can go back to the rest and be like "don't go up there, dude smashed my dick in the ground!"...and maybe it will keep the rest from wanting to come.
Yes, the "scouts" will find food, and they leave a trail the others will follow. So just smashing them won't prevent more from coming. You need to wash the wall/floor/counter/whatever they are on to remove their trail.
This. Ants are guided by pheromones. Sometimes they get messed up and wind up in this weird circle of death thing where they'll all run around and around until they literally die of exhaustion. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...oing-spiral-death-doesnt-ant-iclock-wise.html
Have you ever seen when they pour molten aluminum or plaster into an ant or termite colony, then brush away the dirt? It's awesome:
Quick ant story...wife and I were living in the Keys. My best friend came to stay for a couple of days so we went out, got dinner and then got sloppy drunk. He had brought back half a burger and left it on the counter. Told me that he woke up in the middle of the night, still drunk, and proceeded to devour the burger in the dark. Next thing he knows, his face is on fire. The entire leftover box and burger were full of ants. His whole face and hands were covered in ants. Ants everywhere! We awoke to a piece of burger and puke on the floor next to the couch where he was sleeping.
Yeah, they send out scouts and they are also cannibals so they drag the bodies back home as food, marking the trail as they go. Put out some ant bait and let them take that home.
Wellillbedamned, I didn't think that is how it actually worked. Little fuckers. Not only are they crawling around, they are shitting everywhere as they go.
So weird and timely and probably seasonal. The first one I escorted out of the house clinging to a paper towel. His subsequent friends were despatched with extreme prejudice. Haven't seen them since.
I've never seen that. But on the golf course that I'm a member of in Ghana (where I play when I'm at work), there are ant mounds 6-10' tall, with at least a 5-6' diameter. I didn't know what they were till someone told me they were ant mounds. I've got some pictures of them on my work phone.
