Raziaar
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Hmmm... so here I was, pulling out my hair from an interior flooding disaster I had in the house. The bathroom, and adjacent rooms were covered with about 1 inch of water. I was horrified when I saw it(seems the pipes were clogged, so when the chain got stuck in the toilet tank, instead of draining it kept filling in and overflowing).
I then spent the next five or so hours, using a wet vaccum to vaccum up all the excess water from the bathroom, and the carpets. It took a *LONG* time. I must have tossed into my backyard about 50-100 freaking gallons of water! Anyways... the next day, it seems that wasn't enough, so I began to then uproot the carpet from the tack strips, to let them dry out and spray them with disinfectant spray(the mildew forming was starting to stink bad). I took the foam rubber outside to dry in the sun, and stood the carpet up on one end of the rooms. Lots of work.
I then however, found in the corners of my room where in the past I had a problem with ants coming through. I had back then killed all the ants, vaccumed em up. But once I removed the carpet, I looked at the corners and in certain areas, there were rather large piles of TONS of dead ant bodies. A little grossed out, and rather curious, I went searching about ants.
Turns out these little suckers have innate feelings about the dead, whether it be protective because the dead ants might infect the living ants, or simply to honor the dead, people don't seem to know. What they do know, however... is that ants will designate and create 'graveyards' for their fallen comrades, piling up the bodies into massive piles a good distance away from the nest. Funny thing is, there was no nest in my house. They had come in from the outside. So it seems these ants made two whole graveyards simply to honor their dead on an away mission into my home when I had started killing them.
The following are some links about the stuff, from what I could find. Some text within are more interesting than others.
http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-49882.html
^^^ a discussion about ants and their graveyards from gamers like ourselves.
The following is an copy and paste from a web log(say blog and i'll cut you), of some ordinary guy I guess. His URL is as follows if you are interested in the other stuff.
http://servatete.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_servatete_archive.html
And to finish off this post, i'd like to post an article to make you ever more fearful of ants. A small creature, that holds as much, if not far more fear in my heart than that of spiders and other insects. For you see... ants can be mean. Ants can be dangerous, and THEY WILL MURDER YOU.
http://www.sptimes.com/News/052600/State/Care_center_death_may.shtml
I then spent the next five or so hours, using a wet vaccum to vaccum up all the excess water from the bathroom, and the carpets. It took a *LONG* time. I must have tossed into my backyard about 50-100 freaking gallons of water! Anyways... the next day, it seems that wasn't enough, so I began to then uproot the carpet from the tack strips, to let them dry out and spray them with disinfectant spray(the mildew forming was starting to stink bad). I took the foam rubber outside to dry in the sun, and stood the carpet up on one end of the rooms. Lots of work.
I then however, found in the corners of my room where in the past I had a problem with ants coming through. I had back then killed all the ants, vaccumed em up. But once I removed the carpet, I looked at the corners and in certain areas, there were rather large piles of TONS of dead ant bodies. A little grossed out, and rather curious, I went searching about ants.
Turns out these little suckers have innate feelings about the dead, whether it be protective because the dead ants might infect the living ants, or simply to honor the dead, people don't seem to know. What they do know, however... is that ants will designate and create 'graveyards' for their fallen comrades, piling up the bodies into massive piles a good distance away from the nest. Funny thing is, there was no nest in my house. They had come in from the outside. So it seems these ants made two whole graveyards simply to honor their dead on an away mission into my home when I had started killing them.
The following are some links about the stuff, from what I could find. Some text within are more interesting than others.
http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/archive/index.php/t-49882.html
^^^ a discussion about ants and their graveyards from gamers like ourselves.
The following is an copy and paste from a web log(say blog and i'll cut you), of some ordinary guy I guess. His URL is as follows if you are interested in the other stuff.
http://servatete.blogspot.com/2004_07_01_servatete_archive.html
And to finish off this post, i'd like to post an article to make you ever more fearful of ants. A small creature, that holds as much, if not far more fear in my heart than that of spiders and other insects. For you see... ants can be mean. Ants can be dangerous, and THEY WILL MURDER YOU.
http://www.sptimes.com/News/052600/State/Care_center_death_may.shtml
