Ants are the most fascinating insects in the universe. We got Invasion of the Carpenter Ants at the last placed I lived (just a few weeks ago, really) and it was bad: big red and black ants covering the ceiling, the floors, landing on my head, jumping on tables and furniture...I stayed up half the night just killing them, and had about 80 dead by the next morning. Crushed them underfoot..No ant spray, obviously.
The next evening I came home from work and looked for where they were getting in. It seemed to be through the wood fence that separated my place from my neighbor's. So I spent the next few hours chasing them around out there, crushing them underfoot. The fascinating part of this was what happened to the bodies I created outside... the tiniest little red fire ants you can imagine came and carried each carpenter ant body away. One red ant to each dead carpenter ant. This was the equivalent of me dragging my car away on one shoulder...how something so tiny can drag something so much bigger than itself such distances is beyond me.
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Date: 2010-10-01 05:34 am (UTC)The next evening I came home from work and looked for where they were getting in. It seemed to be through the wood fence that separated my place from my neighbor's. So I spent the next few hours chasing them around out there, crushing them underfoot. The fascinating part of this was what happened to the bodies I created outside... the tiniest little red fire ants you can imagine came and carried each carpenter ant body away. One red ant to each dead carpenter ant. This was the equivalent of me dragging my car away on one shoulder...how something so tiny can drag something so much bigger than itself such distances is beyond me.