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They've been bugging me for a few months.
I tried some insecticides, but they just keep on coming, although it's gotten less.
So I was wondering how these ants didn't get infected with COVID-19, as it's possible for the virus to infect animals.
Turns out they have tiny anty-bodies.
Ba dum tsss! I'll get my coat.
Half of the story is actually true though.
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I hear the same thing applies to termites[^]. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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But which half of the story am I laughing at? 
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There is an insecticide known as "ant honey" (because it looks like honey). You place drops of it where the ants are to be found (but not near food or on food preparation surfaces!), and the ants take it back to their nest, where it kills the ants in the nest.
It takes a few days to work, but if it does - it works very well.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: It takes a few days to work, but if it does - it works very well.
If it works, then it works?
That is like saying: "60% of the time, it works every time"
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That's what comes of surfing the net after lunch (when I should be sleeping  )
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Burn the house to the ground.
Kills ants, and Covid-19.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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The infallible Nero's solution! 
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And Rome hasn't recovered since! 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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It recoverd very well, actually.
And, without any doubt, the finest specimens of the humans are born in Rome.
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I suppose any other CD-burner would do the job too 
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Every spring (before the outside really warms) and ever autumn (when the outside starts to chill) we get the little visitor. They're just looking for food.
And that's the key to it all - don't leave anything around for them to eat and they'll eventually stop looking. You really should, however, tolerate an ant our two - it's there world too. If you don't give them reason to return they'll not come by often.
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Yeah, I do, one or two.
I love ants, unless I get home and I find a large convoy of ants from my front door to the cat's food bowl.
Nothing the vacuum cleaner can't fix, but I really hate doing that
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Use a heavy ammonia solution to clean the floor and move the cat food. Ants leave a chemical trail to follow and ammonia will obliterate it.
Whatever you do, don't use ammonia and then bleach - you'll kill a lot more than ants with this combination.
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Get a caulk gun and some acrylic caulk (unless it's in the bathroom), that you can paint over if necessary, and fix all those little holes
they're entering your house through.
Wrong is evil and must be defeated. - Jeff Ello
Never stop dreaming - Freddie Kruger
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I have no idea where or how to find those holes or what it is what you said.
I'm not "fixing" anything in my house unless I don't mind it collapsing
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You can't get rid of them, but you can try to control them. Ants send out scouts for food and leave a pheromone trail for the others to follow. Get several small lids or bottle caps and place honey in them. Place them around outside your house. Clean the kitchen with a strong detergent to get rid of the pheromone trails and any food that may be lying around. Keep from having food lying around and that includes pet food if at all possible.
"When you are dead, you won't even know that you are dead. It's a pain only felt by others; same thing when you are stupid."
Ignorant - An individual without knowledge, but is willing to learn.
Stupid - An individual without knowledge and is incapable of learning.
Idiot - An individual without knowledge and allows social media to do the thinking for them.
modified 19-Nov-21 21:01pm.
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Boric Acid Powder Same story they take it back to the colony and every BODY becomes a non BODY
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Noble event trashed, but he meant well (10)
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Anagrams ... too easy!
BENEVOLENT
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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OriginalGriff wrote: Anagrams ... too easy!
Everything is too easy for you!
I look forward to your challenging non-anagram clue tomorrow.
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Here is the other one I was thinking of doing, any harder?
Dash on one and could provide topping? (9)
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PEPPERONI?
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Yes. See, all too easy for you 
I am going to have to start learning from Greg's style of clue setting.
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I slept well last night - the cat didn't join me as he was sulking about his food!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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