After riding home from the dock party at Krannert this afternoon, I chain my bike to the tree outside the apartment as usual, and I start to walk around the building to get to the front door. Two doors down from my back porch, I look down, and see the most incredible mass of insects I’ve ever seen. Looking closer, I see they’re ants. Small ants, big ants, big ants with wings. I’ve never seen this many ants before, not even in nature films. It is absolutely disgusting.
Since they show no signs of letting up, and are starting to try and get inside (which is weird, I thought when the males developed wings it was time to mate), I am boiling a kettle of salt water to try and disperse the nest. I hope this will do the trick.
Update: So, according to this site, wings really are for males and mating season. Which would also explain the pleasant pine scent I noticed when I went to dump the first pot of water on them.
Now, I admit that I hate bugs and insects of all kinds. They just make my skin crawl. But this was too much.
And you think that the guy in the apartment whose porch it is would care in the slightest. But he just stared at me blankly when I told him about the ants and my eradication techniques. Dumbass.