Yesterday a larger home that has been on the market for over a month suddenly dropped it's price by $20,000. I saw the picture of it when it was first listed but it looked so ugly that I didn't even think twice about it. After the steep price cut I convinced myself and my very wary husband that we should at least give the inside a chance. After all it was a 2700 sqare foot house and there aren't many of those in our price range. We asked our realtor to take us through it today.
I should have known that a price cut that steep, that fast, was too good to be true. As we approached the entrance I saw a large group of some kind of bug all plastered to the siding on the front of the house near the ground. They were also all along the concrete path that led to the door. I thought I could avoid stepping on them by going around on the lawn, but they were in the grass too! Our realtor said that they were carpenter ants. After walking into the front room and feeling the floor sagging beneath our feet and sloping towards the back of the house, we turned right around and ran out of the house as quickly as we could.
When I got home I looked up carpenter ants and found out that what we saw looked like a bunch of queen carpenter ants. I didn't see any of the workers, which seems strange. To satisfy my curiosity as to why there were so many queens, I'm going to have to do some more reasearch, which means I have to look at more of these disgusting creatures. I just can't shake the feeling that they are crawling all over me.
I should have known that a price cut that steep, that fast, was too good to be true. As we approached the entrance I saw a large group of some kind of bug all plastered to the siding on the front of the house near the ground. They were also all along the concrete path that led to the door. I thought I could avoid stepping on them by going around on the lawn, but they were in the grass too! Our realtor said that they were carpenter ants. After walking into the front room and feeling the floor sagging beneath our feet and sloping towards the back of the house, we turned right around and ran out of the house as quickly as we could.
When I got home I looked up carpenter ants and found out that what we saw looked like a bunch of queen carpenter ants. I didn't see any of the workers, which seems strange. To satisfy my curiosity as to why there were so many queens, I'm going to have to do some more reasearch, which means I have to look at more of these disgusting creatures. I just can't shake the feeling that they are crawling all over me.
UPDATE: I found out that certain species of carpenter ants have multiple queen colonies. In the spring they swarm and mate with the smaller winged males and search for wet wood to build their nests in and lay their eggs. The reason I didn't see the workers is because they were busy working, foraging for food. Carpenter ants do not eat wood, they only live in it. The workers have to forage for sweet and greasy foods just like regular ants do.
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