> They can also carry quite a bit of current I've just found out.
The ants in my apartment seem to be attracted to water sources (and the fact
that the apartment is kept at an even 75 to 80 F because of the five Mac
servers humming in the dining room).
Gross story follows.
A few years back when I was a medical student and calling in sick usually
meant failing a rotation, I got a bad case of bronchitis while on the ENT
surgery service and ran a fever of 102 F. Naturally, you have to be
unresponsive and on a ventilator to get off sick (and even then you may
have to make up the work), so I went in anyway after coughing up half a
lung's worth of brownish-red phlegm in the sink (and since I was ill and
fogged on cough medicine, I forgot to wash it down).
That afternoon, I returned to find a trail of ants leading up to the
loogie in the sink, and a ring of dead ants around it who had tried to
eat the ball of sputum, failed, and died.
I have not yet tried to market it, since it has an inconvenient method of
procurement, and I'm not sure how well it would work in a spray can.
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