Bug Invasion
My house has recently been invaded by insects; not even the cute kind either, like ladybugs or caterpillars, but ants and mosquitoes. I first noticed the ants in my house when I was eating breakfast and I saw a huge clump of ants out of the corner of my eye. I told my mom and she was a little angry.
“Mom, there are ants in the kitchen!“
“WHAT?! How dare they! *smushes* Oh mi tuo foh.“
My mom is a Buddhist, so every time she kills a bug, she says oh mi tuo foh (not exactly sure on the spelling). It’s actually quite hilarious because she went around to each part of our kitchen and started smushing the ants and said an oh mi tuo foh for each of the ants she killed.
I was contemplating on getting the ant spray and lighting it on fire. *insert psychotic laughter* Nothing like fried ant for breakfast, eh? I despise bugs. They usually don’t bother me very much, but I suppose since it was pretty hot today, all the insects came into my house to seek refuge. My mom wouldn’t agree to the flamethrower idea though; something about “burning the house down and killing us all.“ Psh, like that would happen. In the end, my mom power washed the outside walls because the ants were feeding on an abandoned honey bee nest (where are they all going?) and they were crawling into our house through the window. She also used ant spray and sprayed the whole kitchen; now I can eat in peace!
I noticed the mosquitoes flying around when I turned on the light in my bedroom. Soon after I turned my light on, the mosquitoes congregated around it and started buzzing. As you could probably imagine, this was quite annoying because I was attempting to get some work done. I went to the bathroom to get a handful of tissues to squash them all with, but when I got close enough to them to smush them, they all flew away. They’re probably still somewhere in the house… lurking… waiting until I go to sleep so they can suck my blood and give me West Nile.
Sometimes I just wish winter would come so I could bid farewell to all these pests; on the other hand, when winter comes around, I’ll probably be soaked in water every day, and that’s not a plesant feeling either. Life is a hard game to win.
What has your experience with bugs been like?
This entry was posted on August 12, 2008 at 05:02 AM and is filed under Personal,family,.
By Nat Marie · on August 12, 2008
Getting bit up by mosquitoes is the story of my life. I remember going to Jamaica and the mosquitoes are mutant-sized down there. I got bitten at least 25 times in the 2-week period I was there. Yes, I counted.
Another recent encounter was when I was on the phone with my best friend, and a spider was crawling merrily on my laptop, and I screamed in the phone in my best friend’s ear. He had a kick out of it for a bit.
By Regina · on August 12, 2008
My whole family is Buddhist too, but we don’t say that after our bug killing sprees. :P I hate to say this, but I kind of agree with your mom on the “burning the house down and killing us all” thing.
By Chelsea · on August 14, 2008
Ahh, no way. Your mum’s so brave. Me and my mum would run a mile if we seen a ‘clump’ of ants!
Once when I was like 4 or 5, me and my best friend were playing in my back garden and all of a sudden she just stopped running about and stared at the space below my elevated arm (don’t ask). Yah, a huge spider was just dangling there! I just started screaming ‘DAD! DAAAAD!‘ until he came down and rescued me from the thing D: Dark times, man. Dark times!
By Sean · on August 15, 2008
Oh my God I hate bugs SO MUCH. They are fine if they’re outside, but otherwise - no.
By Morgan · on August 15, 2008
I’m so sick of winter I almost miss summer and its bugs. Almost. Mosquitoes flock to me. I was bitten 100+ times at camp, and that was only on my legs. (I counted on the bus going home, don’t ask.) My mum laughs at me when my hand swells up to the size of an apple, while her bites go away in a matter of hours. Urgh.
By Enzo · on August 17, 2008
Our house is always infested by ants! That’s why we never run out of ant chalks!