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April 13, 2006
The Zoo
Derek is at war with the ants in our apartment. Slice open a mango, and they'll appear within the hour30 seconds to haul away any minute scrap you've left behind.
For some reason, they congregate near our hall table. It must be their entry point to the apartment. We've checked for food, we've set out new traps, and Derek has bleached every inch in the vicinity (he estimated killing 40 ants in the process), but they still gather there on the windowsill. I left a glass half-full of Emergen-C on a desk in the adjacent room overnight, and by the next morning there was an army of marching ants going to and from the glass. Down the wall, across the floor, and up to the desk -- a considerable distance for an ant.
Our mouse seems to have abandoned us (though a neighbor's cat visited us through the window the other day, which may explain this), and I still haven't seen a roach the size of my first one (I've seen small ones, but nothing that would make an audible, hideous crunch quite like the first one -- it was big). Maybe the ants have taken over to the point of forcing other animals out? They do have an advanced social structure and military mentality. I wouldn't put it past them.
Posted by csageday at April 13, 2006 12:55 AM