The Ants Come Marching In

We had the outside of the house power washed.

A couple of days later, Barb noticed an ant on the kitchen counter.  Barb thought the power washing had created a hole in the wall for the ants to get into the house.

I said you never see just one ant.  Soon there were hundreds of ants trailing from the window along the kitchen counter.  Barb tried to plug the hole in the window with some duct tape.  It didn’t work.

Barb called the bug exterminator.  A guy came over the next day.  He said they were ghost ants.  There were very small.  So you couldn’t really plug the hole they were coming in.

He set an ant trap.  Then he found the trail the ants were marching along and the source of the ants.  He sprayed the trail.  As he was leaving, he said they should be gone in a few days.  If they weren’t gone in 10 days, we should phone them back.

In 10 days, they weren’t gone.  Barb phoned them and the guy came out again.  He set another trap and sprayed again.

In a few days, they were gone.

The guy from the exterminator said the ants were coming in looking for water because it had been such dry months in November and December.

We got a lot of rain at the end of December.  Although I’m sure the exterminators were good, maybe now that there was rain, the ants were not thirsty enough to bother coming into the house.