Tuesday, June 1, 2010
Invasion
The half bathroom off my living room has been invaded by black ants—the large ones. Everyday I find several of them lurking around. I promptly pick them up with a piece of toilet paper and toss them in the toilet. Luke does not appreciate these little visitors either, and has witnessed my disposal method. Do you see where this is going? I'm sure all the mothers have guessed and dads are anxiously awaiting to hear how this ends. Let me end your suspense—it ends with a 3-year-old unraveling about a half a roll of toilet paper and putting it in the toilet. The explanation I received for this action was, "I needed to cover up the buggy!" I quickly gave "The Look" to "The Offender" and he realized that this was probably not a good thing to do. I got the "I'm sorry look" and a big hug. I explained that this is too much toilet paper and it will clog the toilet, and made him promise to never do it again. I then put on a rubber glove and fished all the paper out of the toilet. I found the lone ant too.
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Do mention it, my room is full with them i think when its coming on the summer they come out from where ever they were hiding, and i do not like insect!
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The ants usually show up for Memorial Day over here... If you don't have someone yet --- call Auburn Pest Control. They spray for ants twice a year, and if they are still coming in then they will come back as many times as is necessary to get rid of the problem with no additional charge.
A less drastic method than pesticides is to first find where they are coming in and block it up. Second, spray your floor and anywhere else you see ants, with Fomula 409. This seems to distroy their scent trail and they hate to ask for directions!
I've also had good luck with black pepper - the small ants don't like to cross it.
Every year Drew buys a gallon of ant killer at Home Depot and sprays around the entire foundation of the house and this keeps them outside.
I found one in J's bedding late one night when I had to strip the bed, if I had been more awake I think I would have freaked.
One the toilet paper we have been having issues with needing to wipe multiple times. J would overfill the toilet with paper on multiple occations. The other day we had the septic cleaned so Drew took her out and showed her that she could indeed cause a big mess is she keeps up the excessive toilet paper habit if the septic backed up.
Don't you just love the life lessons we get to teach our kids
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