Ant-pocalypse!
Aug. 11th, 2011 08:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marydellSo the tiny ants that have been diligently invading my kitchen via the windowsill have outdone themselves. After a period of calm, with few ant sightings, they decided to set up shop in my dishwasher. This was discovered in the course of killing a few individuals who appeared on top of the dishwasher--it's the portable rolly kind, and lives near the windowsill when not actively washing--and finding that they kept getting replaced with fresh ones a half minute later. I killed about 20 via the old-fangled whacking method while Charlie helped by sitting at the table, pointing, and yelling "oh no, ant!" over and over. Eventually I figured out that they were hanging out in the dishwasher, another 30 or so. They are learning that they chose poorly, as the hastily-emptied dishwasher is now running on the extra-hot setting. With RAID in it.
Mike is out so he missed the battle and will no doubt get to sleep tonight without having phantom ant sensations all over his skin, unlike me. This means that he gets to dispose of any remaining corpses, as well as de-RAIDing the washer, and also getting me some chocolate or something, because we strive for a fair division of labor.
Charlie got to have lolipops while I rained destruction down on the ants in front of him, so he is cheerful and apparently untraumatized. Hopefully I have not just created a sociopath.
Mike is out so he missed the battle and will no doubt get to sleep tonight without having phantom ant sensations all over his skin, unlike me. This means that he gets to dispose of any remaining corpses, as well as de-RAIDing the washer, and also getting me some chocolate or something, because we strive for a fair division of labor.
Charlie got to have lolipops while I rained destruction down on the ants in front of him, so he is cheerful and apparently untraumatized. Hopefully I have not just created a sociopath.
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Date: 2011-08-12 02:11 am (UTC)He turned out great.
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Date: 2011-08-12 01:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-08-13 02:38 am (UTC)We haven't had problems with tiny ants, but this spring we had carpenter ants. I put down ant baits, which didn't seem to help a lot at first, but eventually they went away; just yesterday, I discovered that my duplex neighbor planted mint right by her doorway, which she's giving credit for discouraging them.
She also said I was welcome to pick any of her herbs that I wanted while she was on vacation, so I've got a low-strength mojito now.