Terrofied
A Certain Someone (hereafter:ACS) in our family is very sensitive to ants. It seems she has battled them tooth and nail (or perhaps, leg and antennae) at her own home for many months. Hence, when she saw “a number of ants” in my main bathroom a few days ago, she became understandably concerned. Today, she put legs on her concern by dropping by a substance known as “Terro” for me to use in said bath. Now in the meantime, I had observed some ants myself: 3 in number in the sink. I quickly dispatched them in the old fashion way: I squashed them. So when ACS arrived, there was nary an ant in view in the target zone (aforementioned bath). Nevertheless, being warned by ACS about the possible mass invasion of my bath, I dutifully deployed the box of Terro on the floor. The theory of Terro is it attracts ants, and then they carry the poison back to the nest.
After my bike ride this afternoon, I happened by said bath, and there I found thousands of ants, sipping like mad on the Terro. Yikes! Perhaps this strategy has backfired, and now every ant on Ash Circle will be heading for my bathroom. It sure is trending that way. URGENT MESSAGE TO ACS: WHAT DO I DO NOW??
November 7th, 2004 at 10:59 pm
Seal off bathroom and torch it.
OK, just kidding! What you do now is…wait! Supposedly, within about 5-7 days, the little suckers will die off, from eating all that Terro stuff. The real issue is that YOU WON’T KNOW IT. All their little ant corpses will be INSIDE your walls. How’s that for gross?
Keep us posted. Ant killings make for good blog fodder.
November 17th, 2004 at 4:52 pm
Well, it seemed to work–just as ACS said. Several weeks later, all I have left is a Terro box with hundreds of dead ants floating inside. No other ants seem to be in view. I’m almost as well off as I was before I started this project. Now I just have to figure out what to do with all the dead ants….