Icky icky icky

Pretty much since it got warm outside I've had a big ant problem. The problem isn't big, the ants are. Well, the problem is kind of big too. They're all over the kitchen, we kill them all day long, your typical ant problem. These ants creep me out though. For starters, they are really big ants. I've seen some that have to be 1/2 inch long. BIG ants. To add to the creep factor, they're carnivores. Seriously. If I have a cinnamon roll left out on the counter, it won't get touched, but if the tiniest piece of meat gets left on the counter they're all over it. Nasty. Meat eating ants. Won't touch sugar, or bread for that matter. But that's not the worst part. The worst part came today. I was getting out some aluminum foil, which was sitting on top of my microwave, when I noticed there were a bunch of crumbs and such in the box. No problem, figured stuff fell into, so I took it over to the trash can to dump the crumbs, when I noticed big ants coming out of the box. Lots of big ants. Then I took the tube out of the box. And it was full of big ant eggs and larvae and ants! Ick ick ick. I'm thankful I was standing over the trash can, because the whole thing quickly got dropped. It took me a few seconds to get myself straightened out enough to take the trash can outside. Then it took a few minutes before I could get up the courage to dump the trashcan into the big outside trash can. Ick ick ick. Big ants everywhere, scurrying around with their eggs. Ick. Thankfully tomorrow is trash pick up, otherwise I would trash piling up over my house b/c there is no way I'm opening that trash can again. Ick ick ick. I still feel all creepy crawly just thinking about it.