That'll do it! Harmless mistake, I suppose. I'm sure some people would still call to complain, but I couldn't do that. They probably shouldn't have set anything down on the porch, but it's also not their fault there's an anthill right there. Bummer though. Try them another day if you were excited about them (maybe a pickup this time, lol).

Last summer my mom dropped off some sticky buns she made at my house while I was at work. Left them on the kitchen counter. When I got home and opened the container (disposable, similar to what you'd get cookies or muffins or pie in from a grocery store or bakery; not tight fitting Tupperware or anything) and found a bunch of tiny ants. I just bagged it and took it outside to the trash can, but there was a line of them coming and going from my kitchen counter to to almost 30 feet away, across the hardwood about 20 feet into the other room, then about 4 feet along two sides of a run, then a ross the hardwood to the side of the electric fireplace, up the wall behind the fireplace, to what was apparently a tiny crack in the bottom of the windowsill that I had no idea existed. Still unclear how/why they came in or found that crevice, but it took a few days for them to stop making the long journey looking for sweets in my kitchen. I eventually resealed the windowsill after I got rid of them all, but it was a huge pain in the ass. Mom dropped them off to my siblings and a friend and nobody else had ants, so I have to assume they sensed the sweetness from outside and found a way in.

I hope I never have to deal with sugar ants again. Extremely annoying. At one point I rigged up a handheld vacuum to just sit at their entry point and and suck, but after an hour of it, I couldn't take the sound anymore. I hoped cleaning the floors and wall would throw the pheromones off, but that did absolutely nothing. It mostly took care of itself; just very slowly.