Arrrgh!!!

I had a fly in my coffee the other morning and of course I threw it out. It got me to thinking though, how wasteful it was, and how often I have drank, or drunk much worse and didn't even know it. You know in restaurants they'd scoop it out and serve it to ya. Ick!

I have an ever growing list of mother natures creatures that I don't like, flies, ants and spiders are way up there for me as well. One good thing about ants when you squish em the innards don't make such a mess.

I wish it was that simple to give creepy crawlies eviction notices. I'd be off to the woods with my Post-It notes to paste on all the trees in the woods. "Attention all Pine Beetles. You are no longer welcome here and must be gone before sunrise or I will burn you out" (idle threat, of course, but they don't need to know that).

Enjoyed your humorous little discussion of the ant killings, -- not a massacre, of course, just enough to send a message, and the thought of wee funerals in a wee ant cemetery.

Ewwwwwwwwww Janet! Now I wish I hadn't gone out for breakfast!

Yeah.....ants aren't too messy. I don't like to kill bugs. I figure that the Good Lord put them on earth for a reason, but I'm not putting up with invasion, and I'm not collecting them, putting them outside, and repeating the whole process when they return. I'll just have to be a sinner.

Roberta, I can sympathize. We live in an old grove, and when I can see the woodpeckers giving a lot of attention to a tree, I know that it will be dead before long from the invasion. This area is having trouble with a European Ash borer, a beautiful green beetle that is killing a LOT of trees. I wish we could re-direct their energies, and save our trees, but maybe the alternatives would be worse.

I'm so sorry to hear about your pines, and glad I could give you a grin at the thought of ant cemeteries. *S*

i pour boiling water on any ants in the house to much the same effect buffy. i don't really mind ants i just don't want to them find them in my cereals!
now spiders.....shudder, especially the big ones. yeuck. i can deal with money spiders they're ok.

oh yeah, and i remember that movie too.

Buffy,

"Them" turns up on TCM every so often and it's a good (but very dated) film I enjoy watching.

I'm fortunate that ants nests in my garden aren't close enough to get into the house. But, before I married John I lived in a ground flooor flat with grass running up to the walls of the building. And one summer ants began to come in. I remembered something I had read by Gill Edwards (a New Age writer) and firmly told the ants to leave me alone. I never saw another ant, but the people in the first floor flat immediately above me were complaining like mad about the way the ants were climbing up the brick wall to get into their flat. A bit New-Agey I know, but it worked.