Mastodawn

Crap, I found an entire colony of #ants living on some warm power bricks in our living room. I can't leave them like that since ants and electricity don't seem like a safe combination, and I'm about to leave town, but I feel so bad about unplugging the heat on their babies and I have no idea where they will relocate to!

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Mike McCaffrey

2d ago

I gave the ants a rabbits foot fern to hang out in, if they need a place to move to. It isn't a warm power brick, but it is a lot like the orchid I used to have a colony of ants living in on my kitchen counter. Otherwise, I have no idea where they are about to move to

My wife is being remarkably fine with the idea that we have a colony of ants that is about to move somewhere else, probably in our house.

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Mike McCaffrey

2d ago

@futurebird Is there some sort of box or such that you can get that is irresistible to colonies of ants, so you can put it down and coax them out of a place that they shouldn't be nesting, like they do with swarms of bees?

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Plantwizard

@mikemccaffrey @futurebird Damned ants are all over the place in Beaverton too. We're fans of Terro ant bait. I put it on plastic plant labels and leave them around where the ants our. They'll soon pony up to the trough. You do have to rebait when the next batch hatches. But then I have no problem killing ants. If you do I got nothing.