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I was cleaning up this morning - well, tidying - and as I cleared the cushions and newspapers off the windowseat in the library, I found about thirty ants milling around. Ants. And something has bitten me on the ankle twice in the past two days; yesterday evening I got a nasty bite that almost made me cry with the itchiness of it.
So I think we have ants, though since I've never noticed them indoors before now they can't be all that bad.
They have long been out the front under the tiles outside the door. I don't know where the actual nest is. There's almost no food waste in the bins out the front, just outside the front door and library window - we have a wormery so even cooked food waste gets composted.
The nasty thing is that Linnea's toys are in boxes under the windowseat. IF these little black ants are what is biting me, then there are bitey things in or near her toyboxes. I'm not thrilled about that. (I'm hoping it's actually fleas, and Rob flea-treated the cats this morning).
What do we do? I need to keep the place tidier to make sure that there are no food scraps in the area, that's easy enough. Rob has suggested keeping the windows closed so that we can keep an eye on where they enter the house, but that's... well, it's a south-facing bay window. This room gets hot. If I can't open the window we may all die of suffocation.
So... boiling water over the tiles outside the front door? Wash the wall outside the window to get rid of scent trails? If so, anything in the washing water? I realise this isn't a serious infestation, but I'd like you all to think about the word "yet" for a while.
So I think we have ants, though since I've never noticed them indoors before now they can't be all that bad.
They have long been out the front under the tiles outside the door. I don't know where the actual nest is. There's almost no food waste in the bins out the front, just outside the front door and library window - we have a wormery so even cooked food waste gets composted.
The nasty thing is that Linnea's toys are in boxes under the windowseat. IF these little black ants are what is biting me, then there are bitey things in or near her toyboxes. I'm not thrilled about that. (I'm hoping it's actually fleas, and Rob flea-treated the cats this morning).
What do we do? I need to keep the place tidier to make sure that there are no food scraps in the area, that's easy enough. Rob has suggested keeping the windows closed so that we can keep an eye on where they enter the house, but that's... well, it's a south-facing bay window. This room gets hot. If I can't open the window we may all die of suffocation.
So... boiling water over the tiles outside the front door? Wash the wall outside the window to get rid of scent trails? If so, anything in the washing water? I realise this isn't a serious infestation, but I'd like you all to think about the word "yet" for a while.