Vythonaut: Really? :D
*pompous voice* "we shall defend our castles, our beds..." JDelekto: From everything I've read, and seen about ant behavior, they will go out of their way to avoid crossing over water. People have put pet food in pans of water and the legs of beds in water to keep the ants from getting into them.
I imagine people sailing on the ocean don't have an ant problem unless they had one before they left port.
...and yes, defend our beds! (Nobody wants an ant crawling into their ear while they're sleeping.)
"we shall squash them on the edges of the pans,
we shall drown them in the pans,
we shall squash them on the bed legs,
we shall squash them in the pillows;
we shall never surrender!" :-P