Monday, August 13, 2007

Ant they getting crazy

I think the ants in my house getting completely crazy. Over the last 3 weeks, they acting as I'm not the legal owner of the house but they are. They eating my food, making net, running around the house, drinking Coke and finally sleeping on my bed.

Normally, as a naturalist or at least try to act like one, we anticipate their existence in our territory as an symbiotic-partner. They we accepted in the garden, biting the kids sometime, being scratched back by kids another time - good beginner lesson on Darwin's theory of competition: kill your opponent or get killed.

To a certain degree, they were accepted in the kitchen, cleaning and eating left-overred food. Sometime watching an ant carrying a rice 20 time bigger then himself is more fun than Arnold Schwarzenegger playing robot.

But this time, the ant in my house were mad, they try to push us away from our own house. Just left a food, any food in the table, out of nowhere, they appear in 5' all over the table. Drop a tiny piece of food in the floor, soon they make it an intimidating object, with so many lags, head, eyes. Every morning they form 2 big circle  in the water tube on the bathroom, and HA have a good exercise showering them with hot water.

And finally they make their adventure a bit too far, in to my bed room, biting my kid and my wife. That when HA decided to take revenge. Her strategy 3 steps:

- Cutting source of food: no more food on the table, super-clean the kitchen after ever cook.
- Face to face killing: kill as much as possible, theoretically any ant that we spotted. HA have a theory that their speed of reproduce is slower than our speed of killing
- Blocking their house: use hard soap to block any crack on the wall.

Will report result on the next post.

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