Just Give Up. It’s Impossible to Bug-Proof Your Home

We went to Disneyland for a weekend. It rained like hell in San Jose while we were gone. Upon return, all was normal. I'd expected to have to go into 'ant hunter' mode and clean up, but there was nothing.

A couple of weeks later, I was moving things around in the pantry and bumped an open container of Dum Dum suckers [0] that the kids had picked up on Hallowe'en. They moved strangely when I bumped them. I pick one up and it had no heft...

The little buggers had worked their way through the wrappings around the sticks and managed to clean out every molecule of sugar in the entire bag. There was no clue and they left without a trace.

These ants are more thorough, determined, resilient and persistent than any other critter on the planet. There must be some value-add way to put them to work.

[0] http://www.candywarehouse.com/products/cherry-dum-dum-pops-1...