invasion!

[deird_lj]

I have a new life goal.

I'm going to become a wizard (much in the style of Harry Potter), and the first spell I'm going to learn will be Mortus Antus.

If that fails, I'll become a wizard (in the style of D&D), and the first spell I'm going to learn will be +5 to Ant Death.



In other news, the evil ants that invade my house have returned.

This time, they couldn't find much food. Or many sticky things. So they went for the only thing on offer: the cat biscuits.

My poor cat spent the entire day unable to eat because an ant army was crawling all over his food. Then I got home, sprayed Mortein everywhere, and kicked him outside (because he now had poisonous food).


*hates all ants with a passion*

Comments

[taiba.livejournal.com]

Uuuuuuuugh. Someone recommended some surface spray which goes outside the borders of the house... Unless they're coming from under the house, in which case you have bigger problems.

[naatz.livejournal.com]

Wow -- your cat didn't try eating them? Our Labrador has been known to lick them from the floor. . . .

|Meduza|

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

In every generation, there is a Chosen One. She alone will stand against the ants, the termites, and the forces of ickyness to stop the spread of their evil. She is deird1.

[deird1]

*waves Mortein bottle like a sword*


I am: deird1!

[naatz.livejournal.com]

Woah there, that's a different set of skills from Mortus Antus!

|Meduza|

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Woah. How'd you do that?

/beer_good_foamy

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

*hates all ants with a passion*

Me too. Totally. The only good use for them it to run Hex.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_sabik_/]

Surely that'd be "Mortus Formicis"? Or "Caedo Formicas"?

η

Ant spell

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

Hah!

When I lived in New York City and happened to be reading a book on ancient Egyptian magic for the writing I was doing at the time, my roomie and I did an anti-cockroach incantation I found there. (We lived above a grocery in Manhattan, which means cockroaches no matter what your housekeeping is like.)

[brutti-ma-buoni.livejournal.com]

Sigh. I wish I'd had an anti-cockroach incantation in my last flat (over an Indian restaurant/takeaway in London, which means the same as NY groceries. Their food was great, but the roaches were off-putting).

Mice and moths too, but only a few ants.

Are you on some kind of ant highway? Or is this Just One of Those Aussie Things?

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Awww, that's gross. I wish you many powers to defeat the Evil Ants.


And whoa, srsly, how'd you do that thing where it says one thing in the username but links to another??? That's cooool.

[deird1]

Like this:

[lj user="deird1" title="stuff I want to say"]


So, for instance:
snickfic
snowpuppies
lavastar
stormwreath
beer_good_foamy
gabrielleabelle

[deird1]

I think it's mostly the hot weather. I've had ants in my house every summer - usually in weeks when it's staying at over 35 degrees. It seems to make them adventurous.

[deird1]

Hey, I used perfectly good pseudo-Latin, in the best tradition of Harry Potter!

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

Ant traps work but you have to leave them for a few days. Just place them along the wall where they are coming in since ants always follow the same path.

Ants are fine outside. My peonies wouldn't open without them.

[aisalynn.livejournal.com]

Well, once you learn the secret to ant killing wizardry, do you think you could teach it to me? Or maybe Apparate over here and cast the spell for me?

[http://users.livejournal.com/_sabik_/]

Well, "Mortus Formicis" is still rather pseudo... In Latin, it'd be "mors" for "death".

η

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

Oooh, nice!

So I could call you deird1 and get away with it...?

[deird1]

Indeed you could. :)



(deird1)

[lavastar.livejournal.com]

:O

lavastar

[immer-am-lesen.livejournal.com]

You've tried lids of Ant-Rid on windowsills, I take it?

We found a powder that you throw about outside that works well, kills them on contact...

I tried this once, and it worked *very* well- lemons! Cut a lemon in half, rub it along where they go- it confuses their sense of smell/location, they'll stop coming in along their little scent-trails. Did it once in a rental house, worked a treat!