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I sprayed ants on my desk with windex. Yesterday after eating an avocado I left a spoon on a paper on my desk. No crap left on spoon but the avocado smell somehow got the ants excited enough to find a way into the house. They were at least 20 checking out the spoon. I sprayed them with windex, they stopped moving and were little black crumbs. I left it to dry. This morning, all gone. Nothing on the paper, nothing on the spoon. The damned ants came back sometime in the night to carry off their dead.

TIL ants clean up after their dead

I sprayed ants on my desk with windex. Yesterday after eating an avocado I left a spoon on a paper on my desk. No crap left on spoon but the avocado smell somehow got the ants excited enough to find a way into the house. They were at least 20 checking out the spoon. I sprayed them with windex, they stopped moving and were little black crumbs. I left it to dry. This morning, all gone. Nothing on the paper, nothing on the spoon. The damned ants came back sometime in the night to carry off their dead. TIL ants clean up after their dead

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[–] • 3 pts

You should erect a tiny tombstone for them in memory of the Great Avocado Slaughter of 2025.

[–] • 1 pt

They have a cemetery called an 'ant midden' and launch rescue ops too apparently. I'm gonna have a battle here.

[–] • 1 pt

Make sure the tombstone has a bowl large enough for a drop of Tarro ant bait.

[–] • 2 pts

Only if it's the old stuff with arsenic. New stuff with boric acid isn't up to the task. Found this mostly full bottle at an estate sale last month - circa 80s version with arsenic. Irony: I gladly paid $2 for a $0.49 item.

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[–] • 0 pt

Boric acid works, but I bet that one is better. Gives them a stiff neck before they go.

[–] • 2 pts

When an ant dies, it becomes food.