# Ants in the kitchen **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 28, 2015, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886 "2015-02-28T21:36:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/21 "2015-03-01T18:32:55Z")
> [@GrumpyBunny](#): > > No, I say “Hahahahahahaha, you little six-legged bastards!” as I kill them with 409\*. Man, you\* are\* one grumpy bunny! :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/22 "2015-03-01T18:40:47Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Man, you\* are\* one grumpy bunny! :dubious: This may be true, but I’m not sure if anyone would ever charge her with insecticide… ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/23 "2015-03-01T19:09:01Z")
> [@Count\_Blucher](#): > > This may be true, but I’m not sure if anyone would ever charge her with insecticide… Perhaps running an illegal ant wash. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/24 "2015-03-01T19:12:25Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Man, you\* are\* one grumpy bunny! :dubious: Ants make her hopping mad? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Arrendajo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Arrendajo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arrendajo)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/25 "2015-03-01T19:33:59Z")
> [@Honey](#): > > No, but I don’t kill ants (or any other bug). They get scooped up and put outside. With ants though you might as well kill them, since once you’ve removed them from the colony they are as good as dead, doomed to wander lost and confused until they starve to death or are eaten by the first jumping spider that sees them. What I say when I see a kitchen ant is “Hola, hormiguita” followed closely by “adios, hormiguita.” ---
**Author:** ![GusNSpot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gusnspot/32/436_2.png) [@GusNSpot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GusNSpot)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/26 "2015-03-01T20:48:58Z")
"Nuke from orbit is only the sure way " Well, someone had to say it… 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/27 "2015-03-01T23:29:56Z")
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swh1ijfIkhk](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swh1ijfIkhk) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2015, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/28 "2015-03-01T23:35:30Z")
It’s German for “The ants: THE!” ---
**Author:** ![Lorene89095](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a8b319/32.png) [@Lorene89095](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lorene89095)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/29 "2015-03-02T19:28:56Z")
Wash everything that holds still with diluted vinegar… It messes up their chemical receptors (the ants,not the stove,etc) ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/30 "2015-03-02T20:39:54Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > There is some goop, I forget the name. One leaves it out, and the ants carry the yummy stuff back to the nest and poison their friends and relatives. Three applications has been the most it took. Terro ant bait would fit that description. For a day or two you don’t notice much difference in ant activity, then it drops off real fast. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/31 "2015-03-02T20:42:47Z")
I say, “Goddamn little bastard, how dare you come into my house!” Or some version of it. So essentially “Die, die!” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2015, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/32 "2015-03-02T21:02:21Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > Terro ant bait would fit that description. For a day or two you don’t notice much difference in ant activity, then it drops off real fast. Thanks, that’s it. Had to use it twice once, but it works. I need to keep the cat away from it, though. ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/33 "2015-03-03T01:48:06Z")
I don’t kill ants in the kitchen. I kill them in their nest by hiring a man with a poison injector that gets behind the counters. 7 years and haven’t seen an ant since! ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 3, 2015, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/34 "2015-03-03T03:20:32Z")
> [@Marion\_Wormer](#): > > I don’t kill ants in the kitchen. I kill them in their nest by hiring a man with a poison injector that gets behind the counters. 7 years and haven’t seen an ant since! Baby ant: Mommy, when is Daddy coming home? Mama ant: I don’t know, Dear. He went to that bad lady’s house, to find us some food. Baby ant: I’m so hungry, Mommy! ---
**Author:** ![Marion\_Wormer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@Marion\_Wormer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marion_Wormer)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/35 "2015-03-05T02:03:09Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Baby ant: Mommy, when is Daddy coming home? > Mama ant: I don’t know, Dear. He went to that bad lady’s house, to find us some food. > Baby ant: I’m so hungry, Mommy! Bad Woman: DIe! DIE! DIE! \ ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/36 "2015-03-05T02:09:11Z")
> [@Marion\_Wormer](#): > > Bad Woman: DIe! DIE! DIE! \ If you hit the Power Ball, you might have enough money to hire Kirsten Dunst to sit in the corner with eyes in wide-open panic, pointing and screaming… “THEM…!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/37 "2015-03-05T03:11:29Z")
They are just trying to make a living, like you and I. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/38 "2015-03-05T03:37:49Z")
I alternate between “Ants, oh God, ants” and a whimpering grossed-out noise while blasting every surface with Raid and planting ants traps at three-and-a-half-inch intervals along every edge. So, to the OP, no. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886/39 "2015-03-05T03:42:46Z")
There were once ants eating food crumbs in my computer keyboard. I didn’t mind. They were doing me a favor. FYI: Small crumbs. Not a lot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ants-in-the-kitchen/713886.md?page=1)