Mt Hunny

This is another backdated post which i had wanted to write a few weeks ago. it's about this bottle of hunnie i placed on the table. All this while there are ants on my table, but interestingly, they werent attracted to sweet stuff like they normally do. Rather, they are attracted to plain water. Each time u hav a mug of warm water on the table... the ants start to appear.

Anyway i mentioned i had a bottle of hunny on the desk. For so long that it has been there, the ants had never go near it. (I seldom drink it, so din really open it often) Until one find day, i noticed an increase in ant activities around my keyboard area. I followed the trail and found that they were heading towards the hunny bottle.

OMG!!! naturally, i quickly took the bottle and washed off the stragglers that were crawling around the opening. (not too many, about 4-5 only.) But the thing is... they were all hiding along the screwthread lines so it was difficult to notice that some were already there so close to the opening.

Well, i started to clear up the hunny as fast as i can (meaning eat and drink them as often as i can remember). And meanwhile, following the traditional mum's 101 kitchen remedy to all bug problems, I installed a moat around the hunny bottle. (See attached pic)



So basically it's a small plastic bowl of water (henceforth known as The Moat) which prevents the ants from reaching the bottle. It does seem like a Hunny Mount, isn't it? haha! The Moat seems to be doing well. i will occasionally see some ants circling The Moat trying to find some way to reach the hunny. Sometimes there's a bunch who seem to be discussing a plan to get across The Moat.

Anyway as of yesterday, The Moat almost dried up in the air conditioned room, and as i top up the water, there were a few ants which were trying to swim across. Seems that time is running out. i gotta finish up the hunny fast.

Ah well, this is one of those nonsensical post which I thot was lamely interesting to put up. hehe :)