Ants. I get obsessed with the ants here. I even did a presentation at Nature Camp over the summer about ants I've seen here. I had been thinking of writing up an entry on my latest observations: the nocturnal ants of my apartment, when I came across this blog entry:
http://lagringasblogicito.blogspot.com/2010/09/organic-fire-ant-control.html
La Gringa is a blog I've been following for a while. She's an ex-pat in La Ceiba, Honduras who married an Honduran and knows a lot more about the cultural differences and political situations that go on than I do. She's pretty well informed and thought out. Sometimes she writes about obscure things I have no interest in, but generally, I find her blog useful. I love that she wrote about ants.
However, she didn't mention the night ants. They're still in the house when I wake up, and I have to be careful, they stray from their lines frequently and I'm not sure how aggressive or painful they would be. They are large and red, some have huge heads, others have large abdomens, they stop to communicate a lot, but never for long enough for me to get a decent closeup photo. They always leave around 5:30. I don't see them again until a few hours after dark. I have spent the last few mornings trying to get a decent picture of them, but so far it has failed.
They come in and swarm my trashcans for small particles I can't even see and they go under the toilet through a hole. I don't know what's under there, but they like it. I really can't be worried about them, yet, because they are rarely around when I am awake. I may have felt one on my arm one night while sleeping, but I brushed it off and that hasn't happened again. I've never actually seen them in the bedroom. I have noticed an increase in the morning numbers, but hopefully that's because last night's trashcan was just particularly exciting. I've emptied it, so we'll see where we are tomorrow.
"writes"?
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