Ant attack

[fluffymark]

Got to the kitchen this morning to make breakfast, and found a few invaders living there. The cooker was swarming with hundreds of annoying little ants!! Oh no! *eeeek*

Where did they come from? They weren't there yesterday. And theres no trail of them invading from outside. There must be a nest *inside* the cooker. As it's a fitted kitchen, I'm unable do anything to move/open the cooker and find them, but theres lots of little ant size holes for them to run about in. Ants one, me nil. This is probably going to require someone to be called in to sort out. Oh no! *sob*

I'd appreciate any helpful comments on ant extermination. In the meantime I've washed the cooker and nearby surfaces with strong bleach. I think I'll need to find some ant repellent.

Comments

[enslore.livejournal.com]

You can move the cooker in a fitted kitchen. I know this because my stopcock is behind mine. You have to look for some little screws on the front when you open the door. (probably)

Also, if you have any honey, syrup, or other forms of sugar around, try to put them somewhere where the ants can't smell them.

[fluffymark]

Aha! Yes I can see the screws you mean. That line of attack may be investigated, but only after I check what it says in the rental contract with the landlord. And I may try the zotz heat death treatment first.

Things are already looking better. Got back this evening to find no swarms of ants anymore. Theres a couple of them crawling around the narrow crack between the top of the oven and the surface above but thats all!! Yay! I think my bleach scared them off. But it does looks like theres a nest inside that crack.

And they've got nowhere near the food cupboards. The sugar and cake-making stuff is safe.

[enslore.livejournal.com]

The sugar and cake-making stuff is safe.

Well that's the important thing!