After weeks of the never ending drone of work, weekends of house hunting and general other commitments, I finally have a free weekend to actually clean my room. I love a clean room, but don’t like the cleaning. But I must say, it was very therapeutic to methodically clean the room. Anyway, I suddenly discover lately that there have been a bunch of ants roaming around my desk for some reason. I don’t really keep food around my desk, but more so I was puzzled where they come from. After some cleaning I open up my window to let some fresh air in. Now note that it is winter, so I haven’t really opened my window for some time. Lo and behold, there’s a complete infestation of ants living INSIDE the flyscreen edge!
Now I have nothing against ants, but I cannot have them running around amok around my window sill and potentially all over my room. I take out the trusty insect spray and spray the edges… and the ants KEEP COMING OUT of their mothership at the crack of the flyscreen. One by one, as soon as they hit the wet moisture of the poison, they drop dead instantly. I was actually quite impressed by the effectiveness of the spray. As soon as one died, another ant comes out and crawls over the dead comrade only to hit the next patch of poison and die as well. So the picture below is the carnage:
In a way, it was actually quite funny to see ant after ant try to make a run for it only to succumb to the death. On the other hand, it was gross. So, depending on your personality you may find this post quite offensive!
On a somewhat related note, I have a theory how they make these insect ‘surface’ sprays last for up to 6 months. If you ever get the spray on your hand and try to wash it off, you’ll find it’s rather oily. I think that’s the key. It’s poison simply suspended in a oil mixture, which allows it to coat whatever surface and keep the poison there! Pretty simple huh? No fancy tricks, just plain oil. Anyway that’s my theory.
Oh, and it’s Ants: 0 … possibly 0.5 because they made an absolute mess in my room! They were dying and falling all over the ground, I had to take the flyscreens out and wash them and they were still coming out! What a mess…
Until next time, have a great time!
