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Cooking & Baking

Grasswire2

(13,565 posts)

3. I know, right?

Reply to Beartracks (Reply #2)

Sat Jun 27, 2020, 03:40 AM

Jun 2020

I've had ants in the kitchen for a few weeks. They seem to prefer chicken bits and savory things to anything sweet. And they vacated this sugar bag as soon as it was opened.

Strange.

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would you use white sugar that ants had been in? [View all] Grasswire2 Jun 2020 OP

They lay eggs...use it for hummingbird crack... pbmus Jun 2020 #1

um, not exactly Kali Jun 2020 #12

Left a bag of sugar open and got FEWER ants?? Beartracks Jun 2020 #2

I know, right? Grasswire2 Jun 2020 #3

I guess after who knows how long... Beartracks Jun 2020 #4

No. And I would return it to the store. IcyPeas Jun 2020 #5

No! Squinch Jun 2020 #6

I think it would be ok for baking. Laffy Kat Jun 2020 #7

Few want to think of how many insects and "bug parts" we consume regularly without knowing... hlthe2b Jun 2020 #8

+1 Newest Reality Jun 2020 #9

I remember eating chocolate covered ants as a kid! Lars39 Jun 2020 #10

as long as they didn't stink it up (formic acid) - hell yes Kali Jun 2020 #11

Basically this. Saviolo Jun 2020 #13