A few months ago I got hit with Summer Ants. It's something that I've grown up with for years. It was so engrained in my life that I didn't believe it was possible to have summer with out the little buggers. This year is the first time in my 3 years of being in my current place that I've run into this problem. Sugar supplies must have been low because they found their way into every single sugar item I own.
It occurred to me that now was the perfect time to test out a organic remedy for ants that I'd seen on Pintrest at some point. Corn Meal. What? That's my first thought when I read the post. These people must be wrong.
The idea is that you put down some corn meal, and the ants eat it or bring it back to the nest and apparently they can't digest the stuff, so they die. The entire colony or a large portion of it, because I suppose they eat the stuff before anyone figures out what is going on.
So I pour a bowl of corn meal and place it to the spot where I traced the ants to, behind the biggest couch in my house. And nothing.
As you can see, there are no ants crawling over the edges to get to the cornmeal feast I have laid out. They apparently care for the stuff so little, that even when bribed with a dead fly sprinkled with Corn meal they couldn't care less.
You can kind of seen the ants in that picture, and accept to pull the fly out, they never went into the corn meal. Basically ignored it completely.
These ants also appeared to completely ignore the generic ant traps that I bought after the corn meal failed to rid my house of the darn things. So perhaps it's just a case of the super smart ant tribe? Once I boxed up all the sugar items they could find and kept washing any sugary dishes I ate, they disappeared. I may never know the real reason.
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