I would think temperature would have a lot to do with how active ants are.

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Originally posted by Jimineer:
This time of year they mostly watch Aardvark Week on Discovery Channel. It's too hot for much else.

Haha

little bastards have been active in getting in my house day and night,,

took a bit but the traps now seem to have worked,

I'm not an entomologist, but I expect they have a sort of circadian rhythm which probably does not depend as much as ours on light and dark cycles.

Other animals have a sense of changes that we don't. I did read that ants, at least the workers, sleep 100s of times a day for very short intervals.

Do you think that ants observe Daylight Savings Time?

Except for those in Arizona and parts of Illinois, of course.

Had one in one of my raised beds in between cauliflower rows. Tried scooping it out with a shovel twice. Didn't work and the little bastards came back in the exact same spot. Finally I doused it with boiling soapy water and poured borax all the way around the raised bed. That did it.

Not really sure what they were doing at night down there, but my guess is working their little ant asses off because they had the whole colony rebuilt seemingly overnight after I scooped them out.