Get ready for the ants

Weirdly, this came up when I searched for "Ready for Ryan" (i.e. the Speaker of the House Paul Ryan). I know Trump's supporters don't like him, but surely Terro T300-2 is taking it a bit too far...?

Seriously, my family had a huge ant problem when I was a kid, probably started by me after I accidentally spilled lemonade from our balcony. Then it was snack time as far as the ants were concerned (at least three species, to boot). At first, I tried to be humane (or whatever is the ant equivalent) and just flush them off the balcony with clean healthy water, but they just kept coming back. So yes, the next step was to go on a murderous killing spree with insecticides. I do think they suffered, by the way. Could be a moral-ethical-philosophical problem for vegans who want their vegan lemonade for themselves!

For whatever reason, they eventually stopped climbing "our" house. Winter? Swarming? No idea. A curious thing: I never been afraid of ants, not even when they stormed our castle. Yet, I'm almost phobic towards all other Arthropoda, including spiders far smaller than the average ant. Not being afraid of Formicidae makes me feel almost macho...

Perhaps I was an ant-eater in a previous life?