what are the chances? I ask you .

If I put an oriole feeder with grape jelly in it,
will the ants figure out that they need to travel 35 feet , from under the feeder , to get up a tree, to get to the cloths line wire and then another 35 feet to the center of the wire, to get to the yummy grape jelly sugery sweetness?

O yes
O no way

Might take them two days to figure it out.

Yep, sooner or later they'll be there.

The real smart ants will go buy their own jelly.

They watched you type that.

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Originally posted by TexasScrub:
They watched you type that.

Will the ant protein in the grape jelly be attractive to the birds?

Are the ants from Illinois or Iowa? Those Illinois ants might have inner city experience in their genetics from their Chicago relatives.

Oh the squirrels are probably onto it already.

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Originally posted by V-Tail:
Will the ant protein in the grape jelly be attractive to the birds?

we've had a pair of Orioles for 3 1/2 weeks now,
they usually only stay for a week or so,
so I do not know just how pickey they are.

( spoke with a couple at the farm store , they live a mile from the mississippi river, they said that they have 50 pair of Orioles, in their 2 acre yard, and she goes through a jar of grape jelly every day )

It's not their intelligence (slightly higher than a liberal), it's their number. It only takes one scout to stumble on your stash, who then lays a formic acid trail all the way back to the main colony. Within hours the find goes viral and everyone and their uncle is on the silk road.

Ants reproduce in high numbers (r-strategists) and use strength-in-numbers tactics to increase their survivability. Leave some food out and chances are sooner or later an ant will stumble on it. You tell one ant, you tell them all.

Like kkina posted, its the swarm not the brains. Ants invaded my balconey recently. The little bastards travailled at least 40 or 50 feet going around, across, up, back across, then into the planters. The first ant must have been the Christopher Fucking Columbus of Antdom. Poison and spray to be deployed. Fire Ants. Six stings today. They're marching on you already.

Those up North do not have to contend with those fire ants. Impossible to get rid of them completely, and their stings not only hurt but form a pustule and itch for a damn week.

I would spray the area where they would travel with Spic and Span. I don't know what is in it that kills them but it worked in my kitchen and on a tree where they had infested my game camera.

Gerrr, hate them things. Once traced some of them little bitty SOBs from my Kitchen sink, around the wall, out the door sill, down to the ground, around the foundation to my garage, around three sides of the garage and up the other side of the house before I lost the trail.... OVER 100 feet!

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Originally posted by kkina:
It's not their intelligence (slightly higher than a liberal), it's their number. It only takes one scout to stumble on your stash, who then lays a formic acid trail all the way back to the main colony. Within hours the find goes viral and everyone and their uncle is on the silk road.

Haha, ants and uncles.

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Originally posted by SIGINT-228:

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Originally posted by kkina:
It's not their intelligence (slightly higher than a liberal), it's their number. It only takes one scout to stumble on your stash, who then lays a formic acid trail all the way back to the main colony. Within hours the find goes viral and everyone and their uncle is on the silk road.

Haha, ants and uncles.

Finally someone got it!

It's a step ant, piss on it.

day two : no ants on the jelly

I may have just out witted them , still no ants

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Originally posted by bendable:
I may have just out witted them , still no ants

way to go. time to move up to mammals, and find out how we keep the squirrels off the bird feeders...