Granted! While you're out, your niece storms into your room with a giant pot of honey. She plays and plays and soon the whole room is covered in the stuff. She finally gets tired and heads out to go clean up, leaving a sticky trail behind her.
A bunch of ants (of different types, including carpenter) pick up the trail and go back to tell all their friends. Soon, your whole room is swarmed with hungry insects. They eat and eat and eat until there's nothing left but the bare walls. Then, having exhausted the available supply, they leave.
You return home to find your room absolutely positively completely clean. Of everything. Including furniture.
I wish I could do a better job of raising my parents. It can be so hard to get them to act like mature and rational adults...
When in doubt, think about penguins. It probably won't help, but at least it'll be fun.
