Holy Mother of Arthropods, Batman!

[capri0mni]

...Just looked up at the heating vent in the ceiling of my office -- and the ceiling right around it is black with thousands of tiny ants.... they don't look like carpenter ants. They look like the tiny ants that invade my kitchen every year. I expect to see them on the floor, around crumbs of food I drop, and can't sweep up... but the ceiling?

:::Sigh::: I suppose they have a nest up there, in the crawlspace under the eaves. I hate the idea of calling an exterminator, and having him bring deadly poison into the house where my cats and I live (not to mention the spiders and other bugs that I actually like)... but maybe I'll have to.

:::Is Sad:::

:::Sigh.:::

Comments

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

I've found lavender oil to be a good repellant, but it only lasts for so long.

[capriuni.livejournal.com]

yeah... and it may be a good repellent if they're living somewhere else, and you want to erect a barrier between that somewhere else, and your home (like your door and window sills). But when their barriers are already well estabished, and are inside your barriers, I'm not sure a repllent would work, anyway...

And the thing is... I really like ants as fellow Earthlings. I'm just not sure they should have their nest inside my ceiling... :-/