well, at about midnight, i realized my collection of pants had really grown. considering i only actively wear 3 pants right now (all jeans, all ever so slightly different), but have about 30 stacked up, i decided to throw some away, and picked ones to give to my dad so he can use it to have fun and "practice" on his 80's style commercial sewing machine (i'll maybe elaborate on that in the future.) so i'm sorting through. i realize, wow, damn, i own a lot of khakis and khaki shorts. and they all don't appeal to me right now. so i piled them on the bed. and i pick up a pair, and notice some black dust.....almost like ant droppings.....but no ants in sight. could be just dirt. so i dismissed it as that. and i get to the last pair of pants, and i look under it, and i wonder "what are these........FUCK! ANTS!!!" About 100-200 on one side of the pants. in a panic, i threw it back on my bed, and i had realized, how stupid that was. immediately put the ant pants in the trash. and i see tiny red spots moving on my navy blue bed sheet. so i grab the lint roller, and the lint roller rips apart (last 2 sheets). so i dab the bedsheet with the last remaining layers of the ant roller, collect about 3-400 ants or so. problem solved? wrong.
i thought the ants hive was sandwiched between 2 pairs of pants, but realized i only found one pants with ants. then i had a terrible realization where they could have come from. i've had a ant problem in my closet/office all year. i thought they were all gone because i hadn't seen much of them lately because of the cold weather, boy was i wrong. i look at the part of the closet where the pants were lifted from, and i discover the hive. i lift some of the other stack, and i see a few drones. so i go for the ant & roach raid.
spray it up real good. only takes a little bit, but i'm impatient, and i don't want them to excape to my shirts. so i douse them. it says "unscented", but damn, this stuff is intoxicating. can barely breathe when that stuff gets sprayed. the end result. unfortunately the drones were not to be found. the red dots are a collection of ants and whatever the ants hatched out of.
so i decided to move all my clothes, except my socks to the living room.
as you can see, my closet has been cleared out for the time being.
and about 30 minutes later, after i thought i had defeated the ants for good, i discover more ants in between my new clothes. in between my 2 most expensive pairs of pants. and wow, the ants must know quality when they see it, or the 8 yr old must have been sucking on a lolipop and drooling while sewing the BR pants in some 3rd world country, because the real hive was in my nicest pair of pants, that i don't even wear. not on the outside. the inside. no lint roller was gonna take care of this one, and it was even beyond the spray's reach. it was time to drown them in the tub. and the ants were in the thousands. about 10 drones....still no queen in sight........kinda creepy. hopefully she went down the drain with the other drones.
as you can see, even the pockets are made of the same material as the pants. now that's class. i think i've redefined the term "got ants in your pants." these pants are going in the laundry tomorrow, pronto.
why did they have a hive over there? these are super ants. they don't need food or water. they only need dust and moisture to survive. and these guys didn't even have that, and they seemed to manage just fine. i'm just gonna let the office/closet fumigate over night, and hopefully that should be enough to kill some additional ants in hiding. tired, needed to have gone to sleep long ago.
other news, i had a dinner with OG ResNet today. Erik couldn't make it was usual. I had something pretty healthy. chicken florentine. not too horribly tasty. chicken was a bit dry. i felt like i ate too much, and then i came home and i got hungry. only fat on that chicken was the olive oil that the vegetables were sauteed in.
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