Gluuvan
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Well this has been an ongoing battle at my house this summer and it is driving me nuts! Here in San Diego we have the perfect weather to brew the largest colonies of black ants possible. About a week ago i made the mistake of taking my cricket bin outside on my porch to let it air out. I left for about a hour ran a errand, came home and found that the hellacious ants were on a mission and had wiped out about 100 crickets. After cycling the crickets from one container to another for about 2 hours i finally sorted all the ants out. As with everything in life you learn as you go. So i noted to self "dont place any feeders outside", good lesson to learn. After endless attack's on the kitchen, bathroom's, dining room and bedrooms, I came home today to something which really pushed me over the edge. I keep my feeders in a Particular room in my house for them to stay cool and out of site, thinking they were safe here. I found out differently today that they were not. Going through my normal routine cleaning,misting and feeding. I went to the next step of feeding the feeders. I Come into the room and see a random ant. Thinking o crap there is the scout ant, must kill it. Well it was not a scout it was one of about a million after my crickets. I look around wondering how the heck they got and i see a 4 inch thick trail coming out of a phone jack about 3 feet away from the rubbermaid container's. After sighing from frustration, being the last thing i wanted to deal with after a "fun" day at work. I hastily removed the container from the house. Dropping the container outside and wiping 100 ants off my arms and shirt, i went back into the house filled 2 pots and started boiling water. 15 minutes later the water was boiling and i felt i could finally get revenge for them killing my 300 3/4 crickets. I poured the water joyfully all over the container watching them sizzle and scurry away. After another 30 minutes of cleaning and trashing all the egg carton paper towel rolls and feeder dishes, i started to mellow out.
Looking at the glass half full, They didn't get into my dubia which was on top of the crickets. Another nice thing was everything in the chameleon room was in good hands and nothing was bothering them. All in all its very frustrating and figured i could vent a little on here, sorry if it seems like i am crying.
Looking at the glass half full, They didn't get into my dubia which was on top of the crickets. Another nice thing was everything in the chameleon room was in good hands and nothing was bothering them. All in all its very frustrating and figured i could vent a little on here, sorry if it seems like i am crying.
