You can catch (and kill) more ants with honey? Ask me how I know this. Well, I have this love/hate relationship with ants—love to hate them. Ants seem to follow me no matter where I live—perhaps this is an indication of my housekeeping abilities? But I prefer to think of it as the ubiquitous problem/nature of ants. Anyway, before we left for our month-long trip we had been battling ants. I’ve trained the children to kill them (sorry if this offends sensibilities, but if it does I’m gonna bet you haven’t had the same ant experiences as me). Anyway, we even came up with a tape-method (they squish the ants with tape and then they can see how many they are able to catch—effective and educational). Needless to say before we left for our trip we cleaned extra thoroughly, put out ant poison, and got rid of all food that was opened and could be invaded by the ants—except for the honey. I thought about putting it in the fridge, but cleaned the jar well and made sure the lid was on tight and figured it would be alright. Fast forward one month. We return and, hallelujah, there are no ants anywhere! I figured the ant poison and lack of food/water must have done the trick. Then I decided to make glazed chicken. I poured the honey into the pan and discovered a whole colony that had perished in the jar—I only wish I had taken a picture, I’ve never seen anything like it! Honeyed ants—I’m sure that’s a delicacy somewhere, right?
