Well as 2009 rolled in we kept up the pace and continued blitzing the house. The wisteria clippings made it into the trash pack, lawns mowed & I nearly finished washing all the windows. *sigh* No recovering from a hangover here :-)We also were lucky enough to discover a colony of ants nesting underneath our umbrella stand. String Bean was the recipient of an 'Ant Jungle' set from her friend Ethan for her birthday. According to the instructions collecting eggs is the best way to establish the colony, so we decided that since eggs were around, today was the day.
So we set the included trap and collected some eggs and a few ants that were hanging around. We then chucked them in as best we could and set the trap with chicken to try and collect some more ants. It's easier if you're just collecting ants, as you chill them in the fridge for about 6 minutes to put them to sleep and then you can tip them straight in!
Over the day we have added another 3 trap loads full of asleep ants to the colony. They wake up instantly and start cruising around and checking each other out. We were getting them into the trap with left over chicken so they spent most of the time breaking it up into tiny little portions, which they them take down into the tunnels. The ants have already made a heap of tunnels in there which is fantastic. The kids have really enjoyed watching ants do their thing!
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C got a worm farm. Pretty funny as the worms eat the coloured sand and then poo it out, leaving little coloured sectoins everywhere. Must check them today, it got hot in the garage yesterday (where they are residing).
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