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Was once sat in the living room watching telly, as you do, saw something out of the corner of my eye. Ants, hundreds of them, coming up the wall. From the cellar through a crack in the skirting.
With wings.
Nothing to do but vacuum them up!

And then another time, it was getting round to ant season, I was down in the cellar and saw where there were a lot, for some stupid reason thought it'd be a good idea to spray them with butane from a lighter refill tube and then chuck a match at it. Don't try this at home, kids.

Proper ant powder from one of those plastic just-puff-it-out-into-the-nest bottles goes WHOOOOF if you do it round the back of your CH boiler, too.
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posted by [identity profile] nalsa.livejournal.com at 01:10pm on 03/06/2008
One year we vacuum'd them up and fed them to the garden spiders who lived in the lilac (which we uprooted one year). We had happy spiders.
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posted by [personal profile] aldabra at 01:16pm on 03/06/2008
Oh, I want to know about the butane whoooof 8-(

We had a swarm of winged ants on the inside of the patio door in Bristol. I couldn't bring myself to hoover them. I blew them out with a fan instead.
 
posted by [identity profile] oldbloke.livejournal.com at 01:26pm on 03/06/2008
Butane is a heavyish gas. It falls to the floor and spreads out. So when you light it, you get a (mercifully brief) sheet of flame covering most of the floor. And then spend an hour checking it didn't start anything smouldering.

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