bugs...

Real ones:



We've got ants (with and without wings, apparently) wandering in through a gap in the bathroom window and heading for a crack somewhere on top of the shower tiles. The only ant poison I've got handy is for fire ants, but it's better than nothing, I suppose. I laid that out above the window sill, where I guess they're coming in. Anyone here have more particular advice about dealing with my uninvited houseguests? If these ants are nesting inside the house, do I need to do something more intense than just ant poison to ensure they don't keep coming back?

I have no idea what to tell you about your problem, but thought I'd just pipe up to say that the pictures are cool...

If you vacuum live ants be sure to dump the bag right away.

You need to get yourself some Terro ant poison. This stuff works like a charm and is great fun to use.

You put a quarter-sized blob of this stuff on some foil or wax paper and prod at an ant until he starts to drink it. He'll drink that yummy stuff until he's about twice his normal size. Afterwards, he goes back to the nest and tells all his buddies about the gourmet feast. After a couple of hours, you'll have a trail of hundreds of ants going to the blob. I usually put out a couple more blobs because there will be so many ants drinking at the first one that others can't join in.

No more ant problem.

Jim

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the pictures are cool...

I knew there was a reason I bought a macro lens. It's fantastically difficult to shoot with it focused all the way in at 1:1 (e.g., just forget about autofocus offering any meaningful help), but the results are certainly fun. That second ant is a crop of the image, zoomed out to 100%, with the sharpening cranked up. Entertaining thought: with the lens set to 1:1 macro, you can easily convert from pixels to normal length units. From that, the cropped ant is about 5mm from head to tail (24mm/sensor * 678 pixels / 3008 pixels/sensor = 5.36mm).