I'm mother fucking tired of these mother fucking ants in my mother fucking house.
Seriously - I'm sick of them. These little Argentina ants are a pain in the ass. I can not use sprays because I have a plethora of reptiles (the sprays can kill them too), and the plethora of reptiles is exactly why I can't have these ants.
Rewind to when I was 11 years old. I hatched my first clutch of eggs, California Alligator Lizards. An ant trail led into their tank, and I thought "cool, free food". Went to the hospital to get my arm re-broken because it had not set correctly, and came home to nothing but skeletons in the lizard tank. I learned a painful lesson that day, the worst day of my life.
Yup - Argentina ants are ruthless.
This year has been particularly bad. They are attracted to the scent of shed snake skins, and they don't go for any of the bait I've tried. I find where they are coming in and seal it off, and the find an alternate entrance. I put Vaseline in saucers under the feet of my snake racks and they build a bridge of ant bodies across it.
I just got another wave of them - this time though, they aren't going after my snake cages - they are going after my rats! My two female rats that are raising about two dozen rat pups (a week old now).
Fuck these ants. I fucking hate them!
Time to get out the silicone again, find where they are coming in, and plug it.
It's almost the end of the ant season, only a few more weeks of vigilance.
I swear - I think I'm going to rip up the carpet and just put wood flooring in, they crawl under the carpet making it hard to find where they are entering.
Seriously - I'm sick of them. These little Argentina ants are a pain in the ass. I can not use sprays because I have a plethora of reptiles (the sprays can kill them too), and the plethora of reptiles is exactly why I can't have these ants.
Rewind to when I was 11 years old. I hatched my first clutch of eggs, California Alligator Lizards. An ant trail led into their tank, and I thought "cool, free food". Went to the hospital to get my arm re-broken because it had not set correctly, and came home to nothing but skeletons in the lizard tank. I learned a painful lesson that day, the worst day of my life.
Yup - Argentina ants are ruthless.
This year has been particularly bad. They are attracted to the scent of shed snake skins, and they don't go for any of the bait I've tried. I find where they are coming in and seal it off, and the find an alternate entrance. I put Vaseline in saucers under the feet of my snake racks and they build a bridge of ant bodies across it.
I just got another wave of them - this time though, they aren't going after my snake cages - they are going after my rats! My two female rats that are raising about two dozen rat pups (a week old now).
Fuck these ants. I fucking hate them!
Time to get out the silicone again, find where they are coming in, and plug it.
It's almost the end of the ant season, only a few more weeks of vigilance.
I swear - I think I'm going to rip up the carpet and just put wood flooring in, they crawl under the carpet making it hard to find where they are entering.