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Filed in BlogI hate ants. This morning as I walked barefoot into the kitchen, as usual, as every other day this year (only this time in the dark), my skin started crawling. I turned on the light and found that not only was my foot covered in ants, so was the cat food. I’d just dumped new cat food into the bowl, but now I understood why all three cats were circling me this morning. They hate ants, too.
Much slapping and cursing ensued. Fresh food was provided to the cats, and a bag of trash was schlepped out to the trash can.
Every year, we get ants. Usually it’s a lot earlier. This year I thought we were going to get away with it. We’re moving away in less than a month–couldn’t the little crawling bastards wait? Can’t they invade the new townhomes instead? They were all over the kitchen counter, they’re in the bathroom, and in the cat food. Henceforth, cat food will be served in a bowl forming an island in a plate full of water. Ants don’t swim.
They are intrusive, obnoxious, mindless little creatures. They have invaded my home–again. I hate ants. Bah!
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keeyit (1 comments.)
I hate ants too. That’s why I always keep my place clean and tidy !
Sep 4th, 2007
Shendoah
Corn meal. It’s deadly to ants, but they don’t know that. They take it back home and it eventually kills off the hive.
Also pepper. Lay pepper lines (black or cayenne) near where they come in and they don’t like to cross it.
Sep 6th, 2007
Linda R. Moore
Keeyit: fine until you leave out your cat food.
Shen: Many thanks! Oddly, I came home to lines of salt…I think that’s what Don was thinking about.
I know they don’t like vaseline.
Sep 6th, 2007
Griz
If you find the nest a good old kettle of boiling water does the trick. As for the salt, Don was probably thinking of slugs. At least they weren’t fire ants. I’ve heard they can be a whole load worse. Red ants in this country are bad enough.
Don’t get too antsy :0).
Sep 9th, 2007
Linda R. Moore
Haven’t found any ants nests…I suspect it may be under the house, so the builders can deal with it. Yeah, I dread an invasion of fire ants into my RV…have to be careful about that kind of things. (That’s my speculative RV, you understand.) ;)
Sep 10th, 2007
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