Where can I find chocolate covered ants in Taiwan? I’ve heard they sell ants on a stick at some of the night markets. Always wanted to try a taste.
You bring the chocolate, I’ll supply the ants!
I like coming home drunk and jumping on all the cockroaches then later the ants come and eat the dead roaches. Then I like ants. They don’t eat the wings though. Just the insides. If you provide for the ants, then they won’t bother you. Also, if you show the cockroaches who’s boss, they tend to leave you alone too. Just leave a dead one around and the others get scared. Hard to do that with ants though.
Ya, what the hell were they doing in my external hard-drive?!!![/quote]
That’s what we’d like to know. Must be the porn…Ant porn 
Ya, what the hell were they doing in my external hard-drive?!!![/quote]
That’s what we’d like to know. Must be the porn…Ant porn [/quote]
No, they’re going for the insulation material used to seal the space between the hard disk enclosure parts. Have a closer look and you will see.
For larger ants, cinnamon powder usually works well. No need for chemistry here. For smaller ones… Somewhere I have a book that mentioned which herb might help, but I can’t find the book now. I’m not sure if it was lavender, because that one is usually said to hold off flies and mosquitoes… (Haven’t got lavender yet, so can’t confirm this one.)
My suggestion is to build a barrier of hevea brasiliensis, because everyone knows that an ant can’t move a hevea brasiliensis–even though they might have high apple pie in the sky hopes.
Get Water Ants.
Richard–i think you better think again. remember the end of that song?
Ooops!
I like the water ant idea.
I propose gathering some Earth and Wind ants, and then starting a funk-soul group composed entirely of ants. 
… as sung on the “Earth Wind and Fire Ants” Asian Tour’s only Taipei concert:
Do you remember
The 21st sting of September
We were tackling the calves of pretenders
While chasing the clouds away
Our hearts were ringing
In the key that our fire was stinging.
As we stung in Taiwan,
Remember how the itch stole your sleep away … (on)
Ba de lu - say do you remember
Ba de lu - stinging in september
Ba de lu - once stung the itch will not go away
…
At least they don’t call the local media names … or do they??
Don’t worry, the Interior Minister has it totally under control. Following the American and Australian models for dealing with the pests, he’s fully confident that they can be contained in a year and eradicated in three.
Never mind that the most cursory research reveals that America and Australia have both totally failed to even control the spread of the ants, in America’s case for more than a decade.
Still, Taiwan experts are so damn good that they’re sure to make it work. 
And atomic weaponry only causes them to grow to giant-size.
Be fair Sandman, what do you want him to say, “the damn things are here and there’s not a thing we can do about it?” tvbs and the legislators would have him staked out there on Chunghua Road in no time 
Given my knowledge of how Taiwanese handle invasive species, all I can say is HA HA HA HA.
Moronic doesn’t even start to describe it: you can visit a university here and outside the botany department they will have planted invasive species (“invasive” means foreign species which are dangerous and have the capacity to invade and destroy local communities).
Fire ants??? Taiwan already has several estabished species of fire ant? Do the journalists think there is only one kind? Can they describe the differences?
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Never mind that the most cursory research reveals that America and Australia have both totally failed to even control the spread of the ants, in America’s case for more than a decade.
Still, Taiwan experts are so damn good that they’re sure to make it work. [/quote]
They’re still trying here in Southern California, with some success at least. A couple years ago I saw a fireant mound at work, which is way the hell out in the middle of nowhere. Vector control–or maybe it was the department of agriculture–was out by the end of the day to contain the hill and look for others. Hmm. For some reason the child contamination team from Monsters Inc just popped into my head.
Anyway, that’s the only time I’ve seen a fireant hill in the last 3 years, except when I’ve gone back to Atlanta. There, we averaged about 5-10 mounds in our 1/2-acre yard at any one time, except in winter.
Now if they could only do someting about termites, carpenter ants, and those little itty bitty black ants that love my kitchen sink so much. I swear, Orange County is just one giant ant/termite hill.
I hear importing Killer Bees will reduce awareness of Fire Ants.
Having grown up near Miami, where every backyard has a fire ant nest, it is ridiculous to assume fire ants can be gotten rid of. In many places these ants play a valuable role and eat up garbage and other nastiness, so we should welcome them to Taipei. Anyway, the Nicaraguan solution is to dump gasoline on the nest and then set the mawed beasties ablaze. :fume: In the U.S., of course, that’s not allowed and you have to use biodegradable poisons to take out the queen. As a child I personally used firecrackers but on several nights the ants got into my room and bit my foot in revenge. The only solution is… why can’t we all just get along?
Stir-fried with chocolate on top.
Careful, AC, you’re treading dangerously close to humour there. 