# My Daughter put ants in the Refrigerator

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**Created:** [October 24, 2006, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-put-ants-in-the-refrigerator/377728 "2006-10-24T17:14:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-put-ants-in-the-refrigerator/377728/21 "2006-10-26T17:55:13Z")

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In our old apartment, ants would make a beeline (antline?) for our freezer. Nowhere else, always there. Needless to say, they didn’t last long, but if we went away on a trip, it wouldn’t be unusual to come back and find our freezer a mass ant graveyard. Weird.

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**Author:** ![TwoTrouts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a9adbd/32.png) [@TwoTrouts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwoTrouts)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-put-ants-in-the-refrigerator/377728/22 "2006-10-26T19:42:52Z")

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[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy]  
In our old apartment, ants would make a beeline (antline?) for our freezer. Nowhere else, always there. Needless to say, they didn’t last long, but if we went away on a trip, it wouldn’t be unusual to come back and find our freezer a mass ant graveyard. Weird.  
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This makes no sense, biologically. Yet, I have heard many stories like this. Why the hell would ants march into a freezer and certain death???

As for keeping insects in the fridge, I put the silkmoths that I raise in the refrigerator for a few hours (in a paper bag) to slow them down so I can photograph them. My daughters find this to be amusing! [Pic!](http://s130.photobucket.com/albums/p266/TwoTrouts/?action=view&current=JennandPolyphemus.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch2)

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**Author:** ![Jake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f475e1/32.png) [@Jake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jake)\
**Post date:** [October 26, 2006, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-daughter-put-ants-in-the-refrigerator/377728/23 "2006-10-26T19:59:01Z")

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[QUOTE=CalMeacham]  
Yeah, because ants have, like,. the proportional strength of Peter Parker.  
But they _are_ persuasive. Just read Hofstadter’s **Godel, Escher, Bach**.  
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You sure the queen ant didn’t escape with a couple of THEM breeders? :eek: Keep us posted! 😉

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