Insects are silently plaguing my life. Perhaps plaguing is too harsh a word, more like silently inhabiting my space. I don’t mind them most of the time, especially the spiders. The huntsman’s just do their thing, hanging out on the same spot on the wall for days on end. And the daddy-long-legs, of which there are too many, make huge sticky webs that serve as the perfect organic trap for the countless mobs of other miniature creatures that stealth their way into my house after dark. Plus, a trusted source tells me, that from an extrasensory viewpoint spiders are a particularly auspicious being to have around.
However, despite my holistic stance on pest-control, the limits of my hospitality are currently being tested by the bizarre behaviour of the FUCKEN ants. I’ve never seen this before, but the ants seem to be drawn to electrical appliances. So as I’m typing I’ve got a swarm of ants trying to molest my laptop, while another mob are teeming over the power-board on the floor. What is even more peculiar is that the ants are willing to sacrifice their own to lives in attempt to quench this insatiable thirst for high-voltage energy. They also crawl into the recesses of the powerpoints while the plugs are still in them, so every time I remove a plug I find several little ant corpses, frizzled to death. Perhaps I am being naïve and this is actually common behaviour for ants?? It’s just that I’ve never seen this before and, you know, given the throbbing nature of my social life out here in the ‘mu, it was one of the few things that I could think to write about. Plus I’ve got some cool pics to go with the story… Enjoy!
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