Round two!
Yesterday morning I checked on the ants in the daylight.
It seems some of the den has substantially collapsed in on itself. But soldier ants were in abundance. I was discouraged.
When I came home yesterday I found several hundred ants on my front porch.
To me this was an extremely provocative action on their part. As if to say 'Your arson has only strengthened our resolve to eat you in your sleep'.
Acting on a story already put forth in this thread I got an idea..... Dangerous.
What if I could get these ants to unwittingly pack their fortress with their own demise?
A Trojan Horse of incineration?
But what concoction of arcane alchemy is best suited for duping mutant ants?
I soon remembered such a mixture.
A little bit of sugar, some potassium nitrate and a dash of rust all mixed in water over heat and what do I have?
What is generally known as home brew solid rocket fuel.......
Manipulated into small fragments I sprinkled it around the den.
I watched. I waited. I spotted one ant moving a piece towards the entrance.
Surely they will realize what it is? But then another one is taken. Then another.
I left them alone to complete to the work that would ultimately be their undoing.
When I came home tonight no sprinkles were left.
Ha!
I sprinkled a few of the larger kernels around the mouth of their abominable hellgate.
Then I laid a fuse made of of cotton yarn saturated in a similar mixture leading directly to the opening.
A large amount of flammable liquid was then pumped in from two different directions.
The moment of truth.
I lit the fuse. When the flame neared the entrance a few of the larger kernels ignited foreshadowing the decimation that was to come.
The flame came to the entrance and extinguished its self.
For a moment I feared disaster.
But then a wisp of smoke emanated.
Then I heard it. The sound that make less evolved species cower in fear.
But I reveled in it. The glorious sound of ignition.
HOUSTON! WE HAVE LIFT OFF!
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