As long as no sexual escapades are planned for the night
*visualizing 4 puddles where bed legs have ground through the aluminum.
Hope the bed legs aren’t wood :eek:
It takes threads like this to remind me that Minnesota winters do serve a useful purpose. They keep the fire ants, chiggers, and most venomous snakes away.
My condolences, LunaV. I’d blow a gasket if I found fire ants in my bed.
Howdy. Bob Gasket. Pleased to meet you.
Put condoms on 'em.
Sheesh! Do I have to think of everything?! 
::: puffs cheeks and looks in NCB’s direction:::
Fooofff!
Best ya ever had, wadn’t it?
You guys are putting a huge smile on my face!
I survived the night ant free! I bought some of this and lined every square inch of my floors, windows, closets, appliances and lower cabinets. I’d like to see them get past that and survive, ha!
I had a very restless sleep. I woke up several times and turned the light on to make sure they hadn’t invaded again. I had my flashlight handy too, as well as my Raid. I can’t believe how jumpy I’ve gotten! But all is well… 
That really is the worst part. Each time I had ants in my bed, I spent days afterwards jumping up and turning on the light for every little itch while laying in bed, for fear it was the start of a renewed invasion.
I still occasionally get ants in my current apartment, but my cats lick them up as they come out of the wall, so I don’t have to worry.
Wouldn’t it be possible to eliminate the ones that already got in by means of a vacuum cleaner? Get them all in there, then spray the raid into the nozzle, maybe?
Holy shit, Luna! You need to show your apartment manager your bites and then give him the receipts for the pesticide you’ve purchased and demand that you be refunded the money for it. Well, demand politely. Especially since it seems like a problem they haven’t been exactly been fighting aggressively.
Are ant bites supposed to fill up with pus like that? I’ve (knock on wood) never been bitten by an ant, but I’ve had my fair share of beestings and horsefly and mosquito bites, and none of them have ever gotten infected like that.
Yes, it’s normal for ant bites. It’s not an infection, just an immune reaction to the venom.
Evil, evil motherfuckers ants are. They are my mortal enemy. I share your rage and I hope that you gassed as many of those evil biting BASTARDS as you could.
Fire ant bites are particularly nasty. The ants are not called fire ants because of their color, but because of the fiery pain of their bites. I suggest Benadryl, Caladryl (a Calamine/Benadryl ointment), and/or an oatmeal bath.
Fire ants have become more of a pest here in Texas because their natural enemies are not as numerous, plus the fire ants have evolved to have not one, but several queens in a mound. The only good thing I have to say about fire ants is that they prey on other nuisances, such as chiggers and fleas.
This site has some more information about fire ants. Basically, they’re nasty and persistent.
I went to see her first thing this morning, having gotten no phone call over the weekend. I walked in and first thing she asks is if I’ve washed my sheets. WTF? No, you fucking cunt, I adore sleeping on ant corpses. I wish they were sold in stores so I could smother myself with them.
I tell her how upset I am that this oculd happen, that it was downright traumatizing for me, that something needed to be done. I rolled my sleeve up to show her my bites, she doesn’t even look at them. Too ugly for you, asswipe? How do you think I feel? Her response is to say that the pest control guys will spray tomorrow morning. I say that’s fine, and I want them to ocme out every week and spray. We can’t do that, she says. Why not? I ask.
AM: You have to call and report a bug and we’ll put you on the list to be sprayed on Tuesdays.
Luna: I have to call every week? Can’t you just put me on the list permanently?
AM: No, that’s not the way it’s done.
I stare at her.
Luna: You’re kidding me? I come home to a nest of ANTS in my BED and you can’t have my apartment taken care of every week?
AM: No, because if we do it for you, we’ll have to do it for everyone…
Luna: Everyone else didn’t turn their light on to find a dozen ants crawling on their body! I want pest control to spray every week for a reason! It happened once, it can happen again! (I’m getting very loud at this point)
AM: I understand you’re upset, I don’t know how this happened. But you will still need to call in order to get them to come out every week.
Fine, I say, and leave. If I had to listen to her shit-spewing voice any longer I would have screamed. I sincerely hope she comes home one day to find ants in her bed. Fucking bitch. She didn’t even *pretend * to care.
So, I’ll call. I’ll leave a message. “This is Luna in the Ant Apt. You know, the one who had the ant infestation in her bed. Yeah, I’d like pest control to come out this week so that it doesn’t happen again. I would want to wake up with ants happily injecting their poison into me. Cause that happened. Ants…in my bed.”
I wonder how many messages I can leave a week?
Fuck. I never got a chance to demand she pay for my laundry either.
And thanks to the good folks at Ortho, fairly easy to kill.
I have never felt a bite from one, but I do notice the after affects - usually for a couple of days.
Just a suggestion but ants can’t fly. Put some double sided tape on your bed legs, on the floor around your walls, around your doors, and around the base of anything near the walls.
Then watch the bastards get stuck and struggle till they slowly starve to death.
Thanks for the suggestion, but I don’t want them anywhere near my bed. They belong outside, not crawling around my walls or kitchen cabinets.
Well, it could be worse. You could have Ant Ninjas out to assassinate you.
Why? Do they mutate into giant ants like in Them!? Do they explode like popcorn? Do they acquire an insatiable thirst for salt and lay eggs in your tearducts while you sleep?
Why? Do they mutate into giant ants like in Them!? Do they explode like popcorn? Do they acquire an insatiable thirst for salt and lay eggs in your tearducts while you sleep?
Because the whole point of ant bait is that they ingest it, then crawl back to their ant nest and spread the Delicious Death Food around. Kills more of 'em, including, one hopes, the egg layer. If you put out poison as well, you’ll kill your worker ants before they can bring the ant bait in for everyone else to eat.