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Old 22-10-2019, 09:38 AM   #1
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Never in my 55 years have I ever seen ants in the butter. Even with the worst summer infestations in the kitchen, particularly before a storm or rain, the legions of ants would not go near the butter. The past 2 weeks however, have seen ants practically swimming in my butter. Why is this so???
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Old 22-10-2019, 12:51 PM   #2
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The past 2 weeks however, have seen ants practically swimming in my butter. Why is this so???
Because it's too soft to walk over?
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Old 22-10-2019, 01:22 PM   #3
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ANTS? (Homigas, we call em here) You ain’t seen ants til you’ve lived in our jungle!
Fire ants, Army ants, Leaf-cutter ants, Acacia ants, Bullet ants (well named!)
A corpse, ditched in the jungle, would disappear in a week here.... All due to ants!
A couple “swimmin in ya butter”, I’m sure, isn’t going to do much harm?
Butter in the fridge slows them down too
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Old 22-10-2019, 01:43 PM   #4
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But why??? After 55 blissful years of not having to worry about ants in my butter, this is an extra layer of woe I have to contend with. I now lay awake at night wondering if my lettuce is safe. MY LETTUCE!!!
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But why??? After 55 blissful years of not having to worry about ants in my butter, this is an extra layer of woe I have to contend with. I now lay awake at night wondering if my lettuce is safe. MY LETTUCE!!!
Put a sign on the lettuce compartment saying 'lettuce alone'
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Old 22-10-2019, 01:50 PM   #6
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Likely Pharaoh's Ants (Monomorium Pharaonis); they love butter. https://www.pestcontrol.org.au/ants.html
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While Gaso is mocking your Questions.. I agree Ive never know Ants to be attracted to butter.
Could be a grease Ant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenopsis_molesta
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Old 22-10-2019, 02:09 PM   #8
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Likely Pharaoh's Ants (Monomorium Pharaonis); they love butter. https://www.pestcontrol.org.au/ants.html
Thank you AB. You may have exposed the culprits, going by that web page.

Now to plan my diabolical vengeance...

ACME Pharoah's Ants 50 megaton nuclear missile is in the mail...
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Old 22-10-2019, 02:11 PM   #9
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S. molesta are native to the United States and can be found in Eastern, Western, and Central parts of the country and northern Mexico.[
I don't think they are one of the invasive species that's been found in Oz yet.
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Manufacturers seem to be adding more and more sweeteners to everything these days, wouldn't surprise me to see it in butter as well.
Check the sugar content on the pack.
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Could it be just for the moisture? Is it regular salted butter, unsalted, or unsalted cultured?

Also, if you put some of the same butter on another butter dish in a different place, are they seeking it out?
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Maybe you dipped the knife with honey on it back in the butter to spread again.

Or could be that they've been sick of black all these years and want yellow shoes.

I don't use real butter or store it how it should be, I buy the standard fluff that I store in the fridge that they fill with chemicals that spreads easier than anything I put on after it from the pantry.
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sorry couldnt help my self
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Sung to Bonnie Tylers' "Clouds in my Coffee" with just the refrain "Clouds in my Coffee" changed to "Ants in My Butter": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QifHRmONACA

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Oh do you remember the moment
When the sky turned to a sad shade of grey
As darkness crept over the ocean
Then you turned to walk away
I looked to the place at the table
Your face no longer I'd see
The reflection I saw in your coffee
Was a bitter reflection of me
Clouds in my coffee
And tears in my heart
That's what I'm feeling
You've torn me apart
Clouds in my coffee
It could be a dream
But as you walk away
It's all I can see
I still remember the feeling
As the night woke up to the dawn
To awake and realize the meaning
What my eyes had focused upon
These rooms so cold and so empty
Just spaces where photographs were
The echoing silence assured me
That you really were no longer here
Clouds in my coffee
And tears in my heart
That's what I'm feeling
You've torn me apart
Clouds in my coffee
It could be a dream
But as you walk away
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While Gaso is mocking your Questions.. I agree Ive never know Ants to be attracted to butter.
Could be a grease Ant
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solenopsis_molesta
That Gasolane never takes anything seriously. Imagine my shock at being mocked about first world problems such as that I have described...
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So the butter is sealed, and in the fridge?
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That Gasolane never takes anything seriously. Imagine my shock at being mocked about first world problems such as that I have described...
First World? but aren't you in Qld?
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So the butter is sealed, and in the fridge?
No, in a butter dish on the bench...
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I'm thinking the butter is contaminated. could be a pending class action maybe get a current affair onto it.
or you Local MP's Pauline or Bob, maybe Clive hes not busy at the moment?

Down south we use Devondale extra soft in a plastic tub, we keep that on the bench also.
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down south we use devondale extra soft in a plastic tub, we keep that on the bench also.
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Victorian "Western Star" or "Tatura". last really well unrefrigerated.
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No, in a butter dish on the bench...
Yeah, should've realised, otherwise they'd be instant brickettes. Not keen on margarine I suppose ?
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ants are in my butter !!!!!

now their on my bread !!!!

shortly they will have my sandwich finished for me

oh its a hard life
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Could be worse, could have Sudos in your city!
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Especially with our justice system..Try this instead:

https://youtu.be/MKx3JlTnHbc
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if you swallow the ant, you will need to swallow a spider to catch the ant that ate the fly!
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if you swallow the ant, you will need to swallow a spider to catch the ant that ate the fly!
if you swallow the ant, you will need to swallow a spider to catch the ant that ate the fly! and thats no lie ! about the fly ! so dont swallow the old lady
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Get Rex on the Job.....



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and i didnt even have to see the vid to know what you were talking bout hayseed

sic'em rex !!!!.........
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I have taken up meditation... at least it's better than sitting around doing nothing !!

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I've never had ants in my butter but every now and again they invade my house and for the life of me I can't work out where they are coming from.

I see the trains of them on the walls but don't know how they are getting in. It drives me bat**** crazy.
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