ajrwdwgirl
Premium Member
Ants can smell food a mile away so that is why we don't put dirty plates in the dishwasher . In the 30 years we've owned the home built new we must have used the dishwasher 3x just to make sure it still works. It does. Dishes is a task I like doing with the finished product sparkling clean. Paper plates we use from time to time.
Ants smelling food up to a mile, I think you are using a bit of a hyperbole there. Gave me a nice chuckle.Ants can smell 3 - 5 meters not a mile .
As King Racoon points out (and his friend at the Trust pointed) out ants can smell about 3-5 meters. Not that I doubted you @King Racoon 77 but this science teacher did a quick Google search and I could only find the 3-5 meter fact too.
Sounds like things like peppermint , thyme and lavender help deter ants. That might help with any swarming problems.