Not a weird question at all. Check out the following thread as this has been discussed before:
http://www.birdboard.com/forum/showt...highlight=ants
Hopefully you will be able to have some of your questions answered there. Although I live in the San Diego area and in a second story apartment we still have an ant problem every now and then.
But in the above mentioned thread are some good tips on what to do to get rid of them