Ants!
Ugh! Ants! I have tiny black ants crawling all over my desk all of a sudden. I noticed a couple yesterday and didn't think much of it. Today it's an ant party!
Darwin and I tracked them to the window. They're getting in through the teensy space between the screen and the window frame. We tried closing the window, and I still saw ants squeezing in. Darwin McClary suspects that the landscaping just outside stirred them up.
I went to the store and bought some spray and poison traps. We set out the traps (which are supposed to trick the ants into taking poison back to the colony and the queen) and I hosed the outside sill and the bricks beneath it. Then I wiped down my desk with vinegar, which supposedly wipes out their chemical trails.
I'm seeing way fewer ants right now, but there's a bunch of them clustered around the ant trap closest to their entrance point. We'll see what happens over the next few days. I hope this takes care of it--I'd rather not hire an exterminator.
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Darwin and I tracked them to the window. They're getting in through the teensy space between the screen and the window frame. We tried closing the window, and I still saw ants squeezing in. Darwin McClary suspects that the landscaping just outside stirred them up.
I went to the store and bought some spray and poison traps. We set out the traps (which are supposed to trick the ants into taking poison back to the colony and the queen) and I hosed the outside sill and the bricks beneath it. Then I wiped down my desk with vinegar, which supposedly wipes out their chemical trails.
I'm seeing way fewer ants right now, but there's a bunch of them clustered around the ant trap closest to their entrance point. We'll see what happens over the next few days. I hope this takes care of it--I'd rather not hire an exterminator.
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