Update: The Ant Crisis

So far the preliminary results are startling. Sugar soaked cotton balls have virtually stopped ants on counter and in cat food bowl. I don't know if that is due to being diverted by peanut butter bait though. When given the choice between sugar/cotton and peanut butter they greatly prefer sugar/cotton. This is good because peanut butter bait seems ineffective, or at least slow acting. They continue to eat it but their numbers aren't diminishing on peanut butter front. Maybe we can declare a truce, peanut butter smeared walls for staying out of my kitchen. No, that will be a last effort resort. For now I'll stick with the cotton balls.

Special Bulletin: The War on Ants

Now that the weather has broken and heat is upon up (...yay) the kitchen has suddenly become infested with ants. They have become annoying very quickly. And not only are they attacking the human food supply, but the food supply of the animals too. And as my poor kitties look upon me with sad eyes asking 'why, oh why food giver is my kibble crawling' I know that it is time to eliminate the insect menace. Point of attack one: poison bait. Boric acid is supposedly a the chief ingredient in home made pesticide. It kills the ants slowly so they take it back to their nest and feed it to their ant babies. Bwah, ha, ha.

Sugar water and boric acid, applied to cotton balls

Tainted peanut butter, not as effective as tainted love, but it'll due

I am experimenting with liquefying some cat food and adding boric acid to that since they can't see to keep their greedy little ant paws off it. Later we are going to apply Ant Shield outside. Die, fuckers.

My experimental traps

Ha, even as I type the ants are gathering around one of the cotton balls. Yes, feast my tiny friends.