Okay, Colgate, Explain this one…
By Fiona on 28th March, 2010
Back in November, you may recall a little Ant Problem we had. ie, they wanted to eat Rish’s toothbrush…
That was explained away by Colgate as them perhaps after the residue of toothpaste…
But that won’t explain this:
Yes, you see right, the ants have found their way into to NEW pack, as if seeking it out… weird ants with a craving for rubber. (yes the pack was opened with a couple of brushes out, but really, ants?)
I will let you know what Colgate have to say on this one!
Tags: ants, Colgate, toothbrushes, WTF
OMG Fiona I have never seen that happen before. We get ants on occasion too but never on Brand New Toothbrushes. Cant wait to hear what happens with this.
That is creepy! You should buy one of each brand and do an experiment…maybe with a live streaming webcam!
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This. Is. Ridiculous.
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oh dear. noice spotting. perhaps they were trapped in there from the start :-)
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one non-word… ewwwww!
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I wonder about then eating rubber…
@Simon – I doubt it. Unless they were returning to their home? ;) Planet Colgate. Kinda like Planet Spoonoid…
oh my – that is SCARY!!!!!!
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Glue addicts.
In fact I’ve seen ants like this at home on our toothbrushes too! First I thought it was the paste attracting them, but then I realized it was muggy outside for weeks, they climbed up, however the ants also hanged around the brushes. But we use the Oral-B’s.
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argh! argh! i had a recent attack by ants but luckily they never made it into the bathroom. it’s odd because you know ants don’t eat much, and they’re not holding any poison but a plague of them swarming over your precious belongings — like your TOOTHBRUSHES — always makes me scream like a girl.
ha ha, maybe ants are like those cleaner fish that eat the bugs and algae off bigger fish. You just train up some ants to do the cleaning. It would save a fortune in tooth brushes and tooth paste and you could just keep a little ant farm in the bath room.
LOL how truly bizarre! :o
Again?! But much more interesting this time with the pack being SEALED…do u get many ants elsewhere in the home?
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The pack was opened, not sure if they could get into sealed…
Blogged this on Nature Network, on the off chance that someone actually knows the answer! There are lots of biologists there, but don’t know if anyone knows ants well enough to figure this out…
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Thanks Eva!
As pings and trackbacks don’t seem to like this blog layout, here’s Eva’s post and the scientists giving it a go http://blogs.nature.com/eva/2010/03/29/ant-traction
ewwww…. that’s gross!
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Received a reply
This lot are Zig Zag brushes from the 6 pack sold through Woolworths.
hehe well good that they replied. It can’t be the first email they’ve received surely?
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@Lorraine – last time they phoned me…
Are they cutting bits out to take away? i.e. are they seeing it as a food source or maybe giving some kind of congregation signal? What are they doing on the actual brush, hanging out, running around, acting weird? Also have you noticed any kind smell yourself?
These are questions from my entomologist friend who will now ask her entomologist friends too. (She thinks this is totally cool)
Okay, they just seemed to be crowding around, running around a little nuttily on the rubbery bits, staying on the colour…. I can’t smell anything strange about the toothbrushes. There’s no bits out of the rubber.
Oh and latest update:
They SAY there is nothing used in the manufacture that would attract ants, but it would really seem its not so. You don’t dip toothbrushes in honey after you buy them or something ridiculous like that? I’m so curious as to why this would happen!
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They sent me toothbrushes and stuff pictured… and a reply-paid envelope the return the remaining ones from the packet. Unfortunately, I threw the box out, destroyed it when I washed the ants off
I’m finding this entire story extremely interesting. You’ll update again soon?
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