We are turning back this evening. Dixie is in a big war.

@marguicha (230334)

Chile

January 2, 2023 10:13am CST

I hope later Dixie will have time to whatsapp the photos she took here. As it is, she is now in the middle of a war with lots of ants that are in the kitchen. I am in my bedroom and would not dare come near her. She is blaming Humberto because he made the scrambled eggs (delicious with Serrano ham) for breakfast. I don´t want to be near if she discovers that I left a crumb on the table

The prblem with ants is the usually we lose the battles. They are more intelligent than us and they have bigger armies. Fortunatly I have never had ants inside my house in the 25 years that I live there. I have them in the terrace, but they don´t go inside. I don´t hate ants too much but maybe it is because they know their boundaries. I have had ants in other houses and there is no way of killing them all. What are your worst enemies? Bugs, I mean, don´t talk about your children

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@DaddyEvil (174208)

• United States

2 Jan 23

We fight a war with ants at the beginning of every Spring. We win but they try again the next Spring.

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

2 Jan 23

I have reached a truce with ants. They have the terrace (with Luna) and the house is mine.

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@DaddyEvil (174208)

• United States

3 Jan 23

@marguicha We have a walnut tree that grows right outside the kitchen window. The ants invade until Pretty sprays that tree to kill ants and we don't see them again until the next Spring.

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

3 Jan 23

@DaddyEvil Ants always come back. But they don´t do much harm.

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@wolfgirl569 (135583)

• Marion, Ohio

3 Jan 23

But my kids do bug me

. After having had bedbugs one time they are the worst

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

3 Jan 23

I have never seen bedbugs, thanks be given. I have heard that some people have had to burn pieces of furniture.

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

3 Jan 23

@wolfgirl569 I have heard that there are bed bugs in some places in this city, but not where I live.

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@wolfgirl569 (135583)

• Marion, Ohio

3 Jan 23

@marguicha We did throw the bed out but it needed replaced anyways. Now I spray every few weeks just to be safe

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@LadyDuck (502148)

• Italy

2 Jan 23

Ants only come inside in early spring, but they stay in a corner, they are not my worst enemies. I hate mosquitoes, if I could I would exterminate them all.

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

3 Jan 23

@LadyDuck In the mountains there were lots of ants everywhere. They found a lot in their closet after I wrote this post. I think that it is because their daughters leave some used clothes there. Ants might love human perspiration. I, myself, wash every garment before I put the clothes away for the other season. I don´t have ants but moths might make their homes in unclean clothes.

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

2 Jan 23

I don´t have mosquitoes nearby but I did when my parents had a fountain at the garden. If the water was not running all the time, mosquitos would breed.

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@LadyDuck (502148)

• Italy

3 Jan 23

@marguicha There were almost no mosquitoes here in the past and we had those that only annoy people after the sunset. Now we have those horrible mosquitoes that also bite during the day.

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@JudyEv (381739)

• Rockingham, Australia

3 Jan 23

Thankfully, we don't have too many pests here. I do hate cockroaches but we rarely see them.

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

3 Jan 23

I have one once in a while. But what bit me must have been a poisonous spider. Worse than Dixie´s ants.

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

4 Jan 23

@JudyEv Tomorrow Dixie will come with the rest of the meds.

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@JudyEv (381739)

• Rockingham, Australia

4 Jan 23

@marguicha Much worse. I hope the bite is clearing up now. I know you have some medications for it.

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@LindaOHio (222222)

• United States

3 Jan 23

As you know, I hate ants. They always seem to want to crawl on me. Yikes! We get them every year! You might tell Dixie to get some Terro. The ants take it back to the nest; and that usually kills the ants for that season.

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

3 Jan 23

I will tell her and will see if we can buy it here.

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

4 Jan 23

@LindaOHio I´ll check it. I have a very good powder against ants but there are places where I don´t dare use it because of Luna.

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@LindaOHio (222222)

• United States

3 Jan 23

@marguicha It's the only thing we found that helps. I hope you can buy it there or something similar.

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@Beestring (15373)

• Hong Kong

2 Jan 23

Mosquito, cockroach (flying cockroach in particular), spider.

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

2 Jan 23

I don´t have mosquitos near my house. And we have middle sized roaches than only once in a while get into the house. I put so much Raid over them that I am not sure if the pesticide kills them or if they drown.

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@Beestring (15373)

• Hong Kong

3 Jan 23

@marguicha I also use Raid for cookroaches.

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

3 Jan 23

@Beestring The Raid for spiders and roaches is stronger than the one for mosquitoes and flies.

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@ptrikha_2 (49753)

• India

3 Jan 23

Ants can sometimes arrive in big numbers and suddenly if some food items get accumulated or thrown away accidentally in kitchen or other places. However with proper cleaning in between, they can be under the check. Fron what I hear and see, Cockroaches look quite nasty! They seem to be spreading a lot of germs and can spring up in many dark corners. Best of luck to Dixie too !

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

4 Jan 23

Yesterday she was very angry. I don´t blame her. But when she started to say that Humberto was getting in the way, I fled. And so did Humberto

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@RebeccasFarm (91299)

• United States

2 Jan 23

Roaches. I have nightmares of them.

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

3 Jan 23

I loathe them too.

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@DWDavis (25797)

• United States

2 Jan 23

Mosquitoes and wood roaches are a problem here. We have a lot of wetlands around us, and the mosquitoes love it. The wood roaches usually stay outside as there isn't much for them in the house, but when she sees one indoors, my missus shrieks at a volume and pitch that stuns them long enough for me to dispatch them. We do get ants, but the ant baits we use take care of them in a day or two.

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

2 Jan 23

I´d do the same with roaches. I loath them although I know they are harmless. But they are gross.

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@marlina (154103)

• Canada

3 Jan 23

We use "ant traps" found in the Dollar Store.

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

3 Jan 23

I have not heard of those.

@RasmaSandra (97912)

• Daytona Beach, Florida

3 Jan 23

I have had some ants but now they seem to have moved on, I hope Dixie wins the battle with the ants,

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

3 Jan 23

In the mountains she has had several battles with bugs. I remember once, years ago, that we arrived and the floor had a carpet of big moths everywhere. We had to begin our holiday by sweeping the whole house while Humberto sprayed what we had already swept.

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@spiderdust (14756)

• San Jose, California

3 Jan 23

We had an AWFUL summer with ants this year! We had to have someone over to spray twice, and I don't know that it did much good. The exterminator said that it was a bad year with ants all over town.

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

3 Jan 23

My grandma said that if there were too many ants in summer, we must expect a harsh winter.

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@spiderdust (14756)

• San Jose, California

3 Jan 23

@marguicha We're getting a level 5 storm warning for tomorrow and the entire area is under a flood watch, so your grandma may be right!

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

4 Jan 23

@spiderdust Old people said that so when I see lots of ants in summer, I prepare for a horrid winter.

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@Nakitakona (59987)

• Philippines

11 Jan 23

Mine is bed bugs. Ants don't get inside our house.

@MarieCoyle (59106)

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3 Jan 23

I live near a small lake. In the summer it truly attracts mosquitoes and it's hard to sit outside in the evenings, they chew me to bits. I spray the patio area and have some citronella candles and that helps, too.

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@marguicha (230334)

• Chile

3 Jan 23

I remember that there were mosquito sprays. But I don´t know if they are effective now.

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@MarieCoyle (59106)

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4 Jan 23

@marguicha Mosquitoes seem to just love me. I have to use a deterrent of some kind to be able to sit out there on a summer evening.