Ants as pest

Ant is consider as a pest. They're included in the pest control service to be eliminated. Generally, there are 2 methods in controlling ants. 1st, pesticide spraying~~ However, this is not a good method as the chemical is toxic. Moreover, spraying may lead to budding of ants (build another new colony and result in.........more ants =.=ll) So....2nd method is better, that is, ant baiting. The ant poison is added to the attractor(food) to attract the ants to come and eat. The attractor might be something sweet like sugar or protein. After the ants bring the food back to their nest, they'll feed other ants through the process of trophallaxis* and this will kill all the colony.

* Definition from Wikipedia : Trophallaxis is the transfer of food or other fluids among members of a community through mouth-to-mouth (stomodeal) or anus-to-mouth (proctodeal) feeding. It is most highly developed in social insects such as ants, termites, wasps and bees. =)

This is what the technicians teach me today about the bait :

Biasanya kita pakai racun campur dengan madu.
Kalau semut tak makan madu, kita pakai peanut.

Kalau tak makan peanut, kita pakai susu.

Kalau tak minum susu, kita pakai spray.

Kalau tak boleh spray, kita pakai KAKI.

Kalau kaki tak sampai, kita guna............API (saying with very evil smile)

Macam tu semua benda pun akan habis, tak de semut, tak de lipas, tak de tikus ~~ semua pun tak de lagi~~~~ LOL!!! XD

~joking joking oni ya~ don take it real -____-"

Image : example of ant baiting using honey as the attractor.

Species of ant : crazy ant