I think the insect world is finally catching up with me.
Thursday morning I discovered a whole colony of ants in my laundry helping themselves to the cats dry food. Which might I add is an expensive bag of cat food.
They had marched themselves through the doggy door (which we don’t use) along the sink, onto the washing machine over the washing basket, onto the drawers which help the cat food bag and were a flurry of activity around this site.
Then the other day I was out by the pool with MK (Gonepostal), the kids were swimming happily in the water whilst we sat and chatted. I had on a bikini (which you may recall I don’t normally do) and Sparky the dog was chasing flies and bees.
Suddenly Sparky jumped up next to me chasing a Bee. Paying no attention I ignored him. Next thing I know MK is waving her hand near me, Sparky has lurched forward and suddenly I feel a sharp needle sensation on my stomach!
“OOOOUUUCH!” I have been stung by the bee.
Looking down I notice the sting in my stomach and without a second thought I pull it out. I haven’t been stung by a bee since I was very young. Back then I think I deserved to be stung. You see I used to catch bees off the daisy flowers and then fill the small plastic tube that I caught them in with water.
But on this occasion I was merely sitting chatting. Anyway HWG commented to me the other day that “If it’s not photographed then it just didn’t happen”. He was referring to my trigger happy routine with a the camera!
So here’s a photo of my finger with the sting on it, and my stomach with the bee sting wound. Of course I iced it – but in 43C heat (109F) the ice had little or no effect. Thankfully I’m not allergic to bee stings, and only have a small red mark on stomach from the event.
Then today I wake up (Sunday morning) and am enjoying my sleep-in. Until Master 5 comes running in “Oh Mum you have to come and see all these ants!!!”
“Yerr later,” I respond rolling over.
“There are heaps and heaps and heaps,” he tells me excitedly.
Well he was not exaggerating. I think there was at least 2 colonies of ants in my family room. This time the trail went from below the bar, across the floor, up the wall, onto the bench across the sink, into the cupboard where my bin was and then out again across the bench and down the floor, and out under the sliding door.
I have never seen so many ants in my life, well inside a house I live in that is.
So the first hour of my waking day was spent killing bloody ants. I am so over ants at the moment. I guess the weather and our drought haven’t helped.
And I’m sort of wondering whether this is a little payback for the way I treat some spiders … as in if I catch a white tail spider inside I put it in a jar and leave it on display as a warning for the other white tails around. You know a sort of “come out and I’ll catch you” type warning.
I don’t know, I just think all of the Ants in my local area had a party at my house overnight and I’m over them big time!
** Ps the title "Sick 'em Rex" is derived from a commercial here for ladies underwear called Ants Pantz. It has a lady laying on a bed in a top and undies and a heap of ants crawling across and up her legs... next to her is an echidna or ant eater ... she looks at the Ants and then at the echidna and says "Sick 'em Rex" .. Rex obviously being the ant eater!
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