I’m in the process of destroying a black ant colony that’s settled a little too close to my turf. These ant scouts are incredibly good! If you leave behind any scrap of food, and no matter what it is, or even how small it is, they’ll somehow sniff it out and be all over it within a day!
I don’t know what their smell radius is, but it’s definately more than I thought it was. So I’ve used the poison bait nectar and I think it’s working. Only 18 hrs later and I’m already seeing the dead ants where I usually see the scouts. But another surprising thing I’m seeing is that the survivors are now coming back to pick up the dead and are now carrying them away. Well, anyway, I hope I got the queen with this poison. (Or is it queens?) Perhaps, they’ll change their mind and relocate the colony. Will see.
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I’m afraid I might be killing them too fast:
The good news is that I’ve found their actual colony, so I suppose I can always bleach-bomb it, but then I’m afraid it may just bud off into several (and they already established pheromone trails to my source). But I’ve confirmed that these type of ants do carry food to the queen (sorry, to their multiple queens), so that’s good news (for me).
Watching Catchup TV on cable… with dinner and red wine to follow after the current program on ends, whilst finalising the setup of the Conservative political group I Founded: business email and bank account, and website etc. Gotta wash my hair at some point.
Reading through the first pages of this thread… I hadn’t realized it was only from 2012, I thought it had been forever. I also never realized it starts out with a fundamental philosophical dialogue between an idealist and a pragmatist.
Smart guy. 1st person I talked to here. I remember coming on and starting up with him about how Dick Cheney was a great leader and should be admired for his ability to attain and utilize political power. He was just super pissed about what Cheney used that power for. Great stuff.
Joker likes when I get mad and we agreed that I exhibit Hulk angry…SMASH ALL! Why does my brain go into fixated, one track mind mode? I stay buff and green for a long time.
Joker has gotten me hooked on playing PvP campaigns in ESO where every death is a learning experience. It’s a good thing that we haven’t purchased the headset yet for I’d be screaming loudly into it during invasions and would probably piss other players off. Just too excitable!
Giant balls and their bearers formed this prosperous country. Persecuted European Pilgrims went head on against the odds across a huge ocean on crap ships with dwindling supplies and no clue as to what was on the horizon but hard work to set up shop and colonize a completely foreign and hostile land. That takes insane guts and self-initiative that doesn’t quit! Then to top it off once many communities were set up working as a unified European force, they repelled the British tyranny and created an intelligent constitution of checks and balances to manage their own newly formed democratic government with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in mind. Today’s greatness is that same fighting spirit against globalistic tyranny now though and to maintain a thriving country with its original intent and European peoples intact. Those are some of my highlights of greatness. I am so proud of my forefathers for the blood, sweat, and tears that they invested in American soil to set up a system that was able to flourish and shape many successful aspects (infrastructure, industry, technology, economics, government, foreign aid) the world over and it was all accomplished in a few hundred years.