Today was the perfect day to attack. Thunderstorms and hail the size of M&Ms. The nematodes waited in our refrigerator, next to the lemonade. Waiting to be mixed with warm water and poured into action. These particular nematodes are reputedly ant assassins. Worms so tiny you can't see them, yet they'll suck an ant queen dry as empty pajamas.
Mix and pour the Steinernema capocapsae on the city hills. Mix and pour the Heterorhabditis bacterophora on the ants' many frontier towns. Keep damp for two weeks. Goodbye (fingers murderously crossed), our vast infestation of Allegheny Mound Ants. They swarm, they bite, they build solar-collecting hills as big as overturned wheelbarrows.
POSTSCRIPT: July Whosee. It's been three weeks. Ants prosper. Empire building, I think. Nematodes: zero. We're reluctantly returning to plan B (oh, we so want to be green in our depredations): chemicals so vile Home Depot only releases them under guard.
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