Quote Originally Posted by amon View Post
I'm trying a new temp method, lets see if this will work.

Ants should be very good at communicating with each other, right? So I try to disturb their trail and eating by squashing most of them dead whenever I see them on my rack. By leaving some alive I hope they will realize this place is not safe and go back to tell the others...haha...I think I'm kind of silly, but maybe, just maybe....
An ants society is a true democracy. The only reason ants choose one path over another is by the scent trails they leave, and how they leave them.

When an ant walks out to forage, they leave a dotted line of scent, if they find a good food source, they leave one long uninterrupted scent trail.

The ants simply walk where the scent is strongest, and as more and more ants find a good food source, the scent trail becomes stronger and more potent, until the lesser trails are no longer being used.

The majority wins, true democracy.