Bugs Paradise
Rancho Oso in Spring was happy Raccoons fun place. Well, summer in Rancho Oso seems to be Bug Paradise.
The night we got here, Keath found a huge Potato Bug running like crazy. I know there are lots and lots of people who hate this bug. Some people even have nightmare. (Really!) I've never seen this bug before. What a weird looking bug. It's somewhere between Hornet without wings, cricket and spider mixed altogether in one.
Yesterday morning, went to kitchen to brew fresh coffee and noticed that tiny black dots are moving along the sink. OMG! Ants attack! I don't mind Potato Bug, but DO mind ants in the house. We tried to figure out where they came from as they go up the wall and walk across the rig all the way to the front and disappear into a small opening between embedded speaker and wall. Hhhmmm… They must have come from the roof. Keath quickly went up to the roof and cut tree branches touching our RV and wipe the hundreds of the rest of wonderers inside RV with wet paper towels. Problem solved within 30 minutes. Good team work, Keath & Mikki!
Before we went to bed, Keath volunteered to take trash out to prevent another ants attack. Then I heard him calling me and told me to grab box or something. What the heck he's doing outside in the middle of night? 1 minute later, Keath came back with a big bug inside plastic container. Wow! This is the bug we saw in Yosemite last summer! Keath and I were talking about this bug not long ago. It's called California Prionus, belong to a family of beetle. Sounds like this bug is listed as one of pest infesting trees especially cherry. Cherry!? Oh-no! That's not good. I found out the fact after releasing him. Maybe we should have kept it to save cherry tree (beautiful cherry blossom, fresh cherry, smoke chips, etc. It's got a lot of important use!!).
I woke up with nightmare this morning. The nightmare of ants attack happened again and they took over our house completely. Oh, did I ever mention that I cannot stand watching massive amount of little tiny creatures piled up each other, marching to somewhere or moving around some objects? Yes, ants, honey bees, mosquitoes, maggots, what else? If Discovery TV has "The mystery of Army Ants" or whatever ants stories, I just look other way and only listen the story. I can handle each individual ant, bee, other little guys. Just big crowd of these bugs make me want to run away. (hhmm… Am I crowd phobia?)
Anyway, heading to kitchen hoping there's no ants, then found out I was dreaming. No, no. I mean my nightmare came true. There, another ants attack and this time, they got sugar pot.
Not only that, but they were all over on the clean dish I washed the night before. It's not clean anymore. I have to re-wash them again… I miss dishwasher…. * sigh * Team K & M shown the great work again. We took care of the ant problem within 15 min. Now that’s our record time! I hope I don’t need to break this record tomorrow. Ants, find other food / water resources, please.
