Ants release chemicals when they die that attract other ants, to fight off the threat. This is annoying, because squishing an ant that bit you is likely to attract more bitey ants.
Do ants have a chemical signal for “all ye who enter here, either turn back or abandon all hope”? Can you teach a hive to fear a certain place? Or do they just keep coming forever?
HEY ANTS!
This place is not a place of honor… no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here… nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
I personally feel like we should institute a priesthood of ant-scarers in addition to signage warning them of the honorless dangers.
Ant from colony JK4930-1 here, apologies, we were mislead by “Here be food” pheromones, we will turn back now