Joys of Homeownership #3 – Pests

Specifically: ants.

Thankfully…not in the pants.

I figured I would treat myself to a little glass of chocolate milk last night as a post dinner treat. I went to a set of cabinets, opened the door, and grabbed the container of chocolate powder off the bottom shelf. That’s when I noticed a lone ant crawling across the top of the container. And I don’t mean one of those tiny sugar ants either. This was an averaged sized black ant. Upon further investigation, I noticed a few more ants crawling around. Those were not there when we left for work that morning.

Crap and double crap.

Those few more ants soon grew into a crap ton of ants. It was time to take everything off the shelf and inspect the food boxes. Most of the ants had formed an assembly line inside a box of granola bars. They had eaten through the wrappings of all three bars.

That went into the trash.

Along with a bag of grits (deeply saddened), a bag of English muffins, some crackers, and maybe another item or two. Once we got the bottom shelf cleaned off, I noticed there were a few more straggles coming from somewhere. So we moved the search up to the next shelf: all our cereal boxes.

Luckily they didn’t defile any of those boxes…but I think that was the next target. We ended up cleaning up a good number of ants from the second shelf as well. Now it was time to track down the source…since the top shelf was nothing but glasses.

As it turned out, there’s a hole in the wall that was drilled to run electrical cable for the light over kitchen since. It looks like to runs between the inside wall of the living room addition and the outside wall of the house. That’s how those little buggers were getting in. Anyways, I took my handy can of ant spray and hosed down the hole…praying the whole time that there wasn’t an exposed wire in the electrical lines.

I’m guessing they were seeking drier ground because of all the rain we’ve been having lately. At any rate, I’m going to get some caulk this evening and fill that hole in.

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