• If you kill the queen with boric acid - where do the forager ants go af

    From Peter@21:1/5 to All on Wed Oct 25 03:18:20 2023
    XPost: alt.home.repair, sci.bio.entomology.homoptera

    Given ants live almost as long as people used to live, you have to kill the queen (otherwise she makes more forager ants if you kill them when you see them) so you have to be sneaky by baiting the food with a slow-acting
    poison (such as a sprinkling of boric acid on the chicken meat bait).

    The forager ants bring the boric acid back to the nest both on their bodies
    and in the food they regurgitate back to feed the queen and her pupae.

    But if you kill the queen, then what do the rest of the ants do for the remaining 5 to 10 to 30 years (depending on the species) of their lives?

    Do the workers still infest your house & forage for food without the queen?

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