With the arrival of warm weather, we've been blessed with an infestation of tiny little ants. They don't seem interested in our water or our food. They just want to run around on the kitchen countertops and drive me crazy.
Like most people in Albuquerque, I'd wager, we have a regular pest control service. This is the desert. There are bugs. We don't want them in the house. Period.
Most of the time, the every-other-month service is plenty. But these ants showed up, and I've had exterminators here twice in a week, pitching God-only-knows what kind of poison at the little pests. I think they've got 'em this time. Only time will tell.
The ants are most active when we're asleep, so I stumble onto a parade of them every morning when I make coffee. I crush the little buggers and mop up their corpses with a damp paper towel. Usually, I try to be quiet about it, but the other day there was an alarming swarm, so I snatched up a fly swatter and started wailing away at the tile countertop.
From the next room, Kelly says, "What are you doing?"
"Killing ants."
"With what," she says, "a FORK?"
I told this story to the pest control manager when I called about the ants. He got a big kick out of it. Not many of his customers, I'm thinking, go for the laugh. He sent someone right away.
And now we wait.
You need to try Windex...spray the lot of them and the area where you see them coming in. Works--I got rid of most of mine just like that. (But in all fairness they were coming in one place so I knew how they were getting in and I just left a pool of Windex for them to tromp in.) I'm figuring that it's ammonia. :) Funny blog--never heard anyone use a fly swatter. It's KEWL that your wife has a great sense of humor, too...but then she would have to, wouldn't she? :)
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Perhaps you have the fantods.
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