Raining Ants. · 2:30am May 23rd, 2014
Lemme lay out how this evening went for me....
>Goes into kitchen for something to nibble on.
Something drew my attention to the ceiling, not sure what, but I noticed small black specks moving around. I look closer and see its ants. On the ceiling is a little peculiar, so I leave and find my mother.
Me: "Hey mom... there are ants on the ceiling(s) (They were in the laundry room too) What's up with that?"
Female Parental Unit: "Oh I sprayed some stuff along the outside of the house and in the corners of the kitchen. Kills the ants and keeps them away."
'okay' I think. They must be just panicking, no biggy, right?
Nope.
I go back into the kitchen a few hours later and see them on the island and counter-top.
Fun fact: Ants are total motherfuckers here in Michigan in spring.
I start looking around the kitchen, trying to find where they're coming in from and failing that, I stand for a while just watching the little cunts going about the place. After a while I feel something hit my hand, an ant obviously. I just brushed it off thinking it got on me and I didn't notice.
About a minute later I catch one falling off the ceiling.
Only it wasn't falling, they were jumping.
Like some sort of well-organized paratrooper force they were gathering in places and launching themselves down onto the counters like some of Orbital Drop Shock Trooper force.
The little bastards were playing The Floor Is Lava, because it was.
So now my house is filled with intelligent ants doing hot-drops all over the place. While typing, a platoon of them even landed on my keyboard. Next thing I know they'll be doing sick drop-kicks and laying bridges.
Ants are now badass paratroopers. Confirmed.
Edit: There's no food out for them, they're just assholes. Assholes doing aerial insertions >_>
Wow, I've never heard of ants doing that before. Must be interesting to watch. I'm laughing pretty hard right now.
Be thankful you're in Michigan, you aren't dealing with the true spawns of satan, the SPARTANS of ants, the Fire Ant.
We've got spidertillery on standby for Fire For Effect coordinates.
You know that old movie? About ants fucking around with scientists? Adapting to chemicals, building mirrors around their observation dome to fry said scientists, and wreck their computers? I think some of those ants made a new colony in your house.
You should start an ant farm. Fill any clear container you can find with dirt. Start gathering them and dropping them in your new ant farm.
Profit from showing everyone your kick-ass aerial drop-trooper ants™, a new species that will one day be dubbed the "Brony2893 ant."
Well it's known that ants work together in teams, even to take down foes larger than themselves (spiders, other larger insects). Also, there's a reason why there's a group name for ants called 'army.'
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They're super rare up here, but I've had to deal with those bastards once.
Ouch.
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Lucky you, I took great pleasure in sticking a baggie of them in a freezer then encasing their remains in palladium-gold... freeze you little bastards, freeze
As someone whose from Michigan himself my advise, slaughter every little motherfucker that comes into your line of site, and in about a week they stop coming.
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I live in Georgia, so those fuckers are all over my backyard. Hell, I stepped in a hill just today by accident. Still burns like a bitch.
Pics or it didn't happen.
Allllllmost misread that….
Damn! Can I order a shipment of those? I need revenge on my roommates.
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Thanks, Cpt. Obvious
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I didn't know I was in the military.
Well sir... it appears you need to Raid them.
At least it's not ladybugs. Try having an infestation of those fuckers.
Looks like you need some.....
ODST Ants
Seriously, the height from the counter to the floor in ant-body length would probably be as wide in ratio to humans standing on top of each other to the atmosphere or something.
They are literally ODST ants.
Clearly the only solution is
ALL THE FIRE! LET IT BURN!gratuitous bugspray application.2137470
Texan here, home of the Ag Commisioner that stuck both arms into a nest just to prove that they weren't as bad as everyone thought... I figure after he got out of the hospital he changed his mind.
I think there is a reason why the species epithet is invicta, seriously having "unconquered" as part of their name shows how much a pain in the ass they can be.
This is a worrying development. It's just as PIXAR predicted!
Here's what you should do: cover as many surfaces in your house as you can with sheets/plastic drop cloths/etc except for the floor. Buy a few bug-bombs, depends on the size of your house. Set them off and go out to dinner and a movie. When you get back, most, if not all of the ants should be dead or dying. The ones that fell on the floor can be vacuumed or swept up, the ones that fell on the sheets can be dumped outside if they're nice sheets, or just thrown away, same with the drop cloths.
Also, you may want to check your attic to see if that's where the colony is.
If you don't want to do that, try impaling several of them on sewing needles and putting them on display as a warning.
I hate the little buggers! Here is advice from one with experience (me). Do as Ra1nbowCrasH suggested with bug bombs, but also, to ward them off, wipe counter tops and surfaces with white vinegar and let dry. Get some Demon (really good insecticide available at co-ops and farm supply stores etc) and spray all over outside of the house and along baseboards and behind refrigerator and stove etc. Stuff works wonders against most pests and is safe when dry. Still haven't figured out how to get rid of the ones infesting the yard though...
When I was little, I was homeschooled, and had this desk in my room that I would sit at all day and
daydreamdo schoolwork.Whenever I would see an ant which was frequently, I would play this game where I would try to squash them with the tip of my pencil.
Of course, that ended when we realized the colony was literally living underneath a pot I had on my desk. I watered my banana tree often, and the desk was real wood, so it was the perfect place for a colony to breed. Unfortunately, my mom killed them all with vinegar.
My house gets invaded by ants all the time. Usually it's my room, and I've gotten pretty good about figuring out where they're coming from. But they've never come from the ceiling. They get on the floor, the walls, sometimes in my bed, but never on the ceiling. And then the paratrooping thing. That's just bizarre.
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I know. My crazy family in Alabama tried blowing them up. For all their efforts they got a crater in their yard and spread more of the little monsters everywhere.
Oh god... Is it wrong that I find your predicament amusing? Wait... I don't care, I'm going to continue laughing at your ODST ants. Because that's bloody awesome.