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//I have no idea what the language is
like.// spantish I believe |
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If you consider that ants communicate mostly through chemicals they leave on their path, this is as easy as washing the floor - or as blocking ants from entering and reinforcing their pathways while the old smell evaporates.
(There's a story of Feynman doing exactly this in "Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman?") |
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Beyond that, a recent study Elva J. H. Robinson, U Sheffield, published in Nature magazine identified "stop sign" pheromones that ants leave in places that turned out to *not* lead to food. See link. |
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