Comments | schpahky: s.o.s.

schpahky

s.o.s.

Jul 18, 2007 22:21

Our house is overrun with tiny ants.

They are on the kitchen table.

They are pouring out of a crack in the kitchen windowsill.

When I turn on the faucet, they fall out of the fixture.

They are on my bedroom floor, very interested in the front right leg of my dresser.

Sometimes they are on my cat.

Halp.

Comments 13

kuangning July 19 2007, 02:46:33 UTC

Diatomaceous earth, sprinkled liberally in their path and around wherever they're getting in. It's safe for the cat and for you, but it will kill them. It works faster if the house isn't too humid -- because it works by piercing their carapaces and drying them out.

schpahky July 19 2007, 03:18:19 UTC

Current humidity: 96%.

Sigh.

4hour_ramona July 19 2007, 04:07:17 UTC

ditto that.

snidegrrl July 19 2007, 03:07:19 UTC

Terro.

schpahky July 19 2007, 03:19:48 UTC

I am calling the landlords tomorrow. Even the stuff that usually works for us is failing. I think the ants are evolving into SuperAnts.

snidegrrl July 19 2007, 03:21:53 UTC

Yeah - that is seriously messed up.

schpahky July 19 2007, 03:57:29 UTC

I can not honestly say I welcome my new Ant Overlord.

kenhighcountry July 19 2007, 03:22:55 UTC

I shudder when I remember what happened to that poor family in Missouri.
But that couldn't happen in New England...

schpahky July 19 2007, 03:57:49 UTC

WHAT HAPPENED???

If you please.

kenhighcountry July 19 2007, 04:01:18 UTC

It's really too horrible to talk about.
I shouldn't have mentioned it.
At least it happened in their sleep...

blue_by_you July 19 2007, 04:26:09 UTC

You are an awful, AWFUL man, Kenny Pumpkin Lang.

sissychrissy1 July 19 2007, 13:52:25 UTC

I would have fallen over dead right now from anxiety and they would be nibbling my corpse. You are a braver and calmer woman than I am.

ext_22310 July 19 2007, 17:40:01 UTC

Our house is overrun with tiny ants.

Best size for 'em, if you ask me. The 50' high radioactive ones are a bitch.

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