Ant Infestation
So for about a week, I had ants in my
bathroom sink. Every time I'd go into the bathroom, there would be
ants crawling around the basin of the sink, and on the countertop.
I kept trying to figure out where they were coming from. There was
no trail of ants coming from the grout, or behind the mirror, or
even falling from the ceiling. Finally, after a few days, I found
out that they were coming from the sink drain. It's kinda weird
because you assume that the drain only goes one way... down. Weird,
considering how the ants would be constantly bombarded with water
coming down the drain all the time.
Anyways, I had to figure out a way to get rid of them. Initially, I
just closed off the drain. That sorta worked, but it got kinda
annoying having to remember to pull the stopper up each time I left
the bathroom. Plus, they started just coming out of the drain
release hole at the edge of the sink. I started to read up on ways
to kill ants. A lot of people said that they used Sweet-n-Low
sugar.
Apparently, sugar substitutes have Aspartame in them, which is not
harmful to humans (thankfully), but cannot be metabolized by ants.
Ants eat it because it seems like sugar to them, and then they die.
So I figured, what do I have to lose? I poured 3 packs of
Sweet-n-Low in and around the sink drain. When I came back a few
hours later, there were the ants, going crazy on the "sugar". Later
that night, I washed everything down the drain.
It's now been two days later and I have no ants anymore. Yay!


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