Pharaoh Ants

We are being invaded. No it’s not aliens or little gremlins. Damn I wish it was something as cool as that. Instead we are being invaded by what we think are Pharaoh Ants. They are small disgusting little bugs that seem to love crawling all over me. I knew that we had ants, but it didn’t seem like that big of a problem. I’m a fairly level headed woman and I have often been told that I am wise for my 30 years. So my wisdom told me that we should move the dog food and water bowl, sweep and mop fairly regularly and set down ant traps. The result is nothing. They don’t seem to be taking the bait. They hate the lovely poisoned ant food we set down.

But do you know what they do love? Oh it’s not the dog food or even the pop spill we accidentally missed. Nope they love our USED TOOTHBRUSHES. I opened our bathroom cabinet to find both of our toothbrushes completely swarmed with about 100 ants. I was morbidly fascinated with this for about two seconds and then I started to yell for Gary to COME AND SEE THE ANTS! I finally allowed the girly 2 year old to prevail and had a mini tantrum that resulted in throwing the toothbrushes, cup and toothpaste into the sink as I shrieked and hopped from one foot to the other.

Pandora simply studied me through her curious brown eyes, clearly thinking I’m insane. Gary, however, enforced my insanity by yelling at the ants as we washed them down the sink, hopefully drowning the dirty little beasts. We cleared everything out our cabinet and saw the infestation of ants were only on the bottom shelf. We grabbed some ant traps from the other room and plunked em down right where they are wandering. And again they ignored it. I don’t know why I thought they would suddenly love the ant food and would start gobbling it up, but I did.

It’s been a few days now since this incident and we still have the little bastards but I don’t see them as often. I can only hope that the poison is working. We now have new toothbrushes and zip lock bags to put said toothbrushes in after each use because I do not want to live through that experience again. The horror of those ants on my toothbrush have made me feel dirty and makes me want to vomit. I’m still twitching, convinced that I have ants all over me.