the one with all the ants
so…we are not dirty people. That being said: we have ants!
Tiny, black ants. Doing a conga line across the counter, around the back of the sink, down one basin wall and then up the other side. They pass other ants coming as they’re going, high-fiving each other — “Up high, yo!” — along the way.
It’s strange: there are very few on the floor. It’s not like you can trace them back to the source. It is as if they have some tiny teleporter in the dishwasher (which might be broken, but that is another story for another time), and they just materialize on the top ledge, ready for their mission.
Well, show me the one in the red shirt because I’m about to make an example out of an expendable crew member!!
November 16th, 2006 at 11:08 am
Are they really tiny ants? Because they sound like sugar ants. In the south, every one has sugar ants at some time or another (regardless of cleanliness - my grandmother, who is at the pinnacle of tidy had sugar ants recently). It’s very difficult to determine where they are coming from, and they seem to prefer crawling around in a single file around sinks, etc. We would spray their little path with some Fantastic or Windex (whatever was sprayable and first in hand from under the sink) - and we would usually have to keep open dry goods (e.g., cereal, flour) in sealed plastic containers. At least it’s a way to introduce Sammy to “The ants go marching” (children’s version or Dave Matthews’, whichever you prefer).
November 16th, 2006 at 9:54 pm
yeah, they’re definately sugar ants. We normally get them in the spring for a week or two and then they’re gone. I think it’s the mild, wet weather we’re having this past week.
I’m going to teach Sammy to play “nice” with the ants. So, maybe a few might get squished, but he’s just learning…
November 16th, 2006 at 10:17 pm
Yeah, we had an issue with sugar ants when we first moved into our first apartment, when we moved here. They totally apparate out of nowhere and it would drive me mad. One morning I saw a rogue one climb into the overflow hole in our bathroom sink. I blew in the hole, and 50 of them came scattering out. At 6am, this is just totally NOT cool. Thing is, there was really no way for them to get into the bathroom from the outside, so they had to come from somewhere on the perimeter of the apartment. We just didn’t know where.
I hate ants.