I’m on the line with the unemployment office and bagging specimens so we can get a positive ID on these flying things! They fit the flying ant description, but those antennae seem a little too perky for ants. And Terminix can’t send anyone until Tuesday! Sure, I’ll wait! How many could invade in six days? Piece of cake!
So I’m posting this picture of one of the ones I caught in a baggie. Maybe someone out there can tell me wtf it is. Prize: a TMB, Pear Soup, or Wonderbelly tshirt or cap.
And yes, I know, my camera is shit all of a sudden. I can’t get it to focus properly. My best friend may come back with her camera to try again. She just stopped by with Bing cherries because she was sure I hadn’t eaten yet, and I totally broke down. I know I need to go out and run a marathon or something but it’s two hundred degrees out there and I don’t even want to open my eyes except to read. UGH.
So, come on over and bring a bane of your own. We’ll get through it together. And I’ll make blender drinks and when Phil gets home we’ll talk him into making his famous guacamole.
*sobs*
OMG I just covered up the heating vent next to my desk. All doors and windows are shut. What if that’s where they’re coming from? … if they are, I don’t want to think about how many more vents I’ll have to close. I just lifted my three hundred pound desk to pull the magnetized cover all the way over and I think the other vents are under dressers. Just shoot me.
OMFG I just got spam inviting me to join the ever-growing and lucrative field of medical bill collections.
I still think when they get bigger they will be those meat-eating-maggot causing flies! And I will expect to cash in on the hat or tshirt.
—X
I don’t know the exact species, but I’m pretty sure that particular insect species begins with the word “Killer.”
KIDDING! But I do know this: you are a magnet for bug infestations and airport melodrama. What did you ever do to Karma?
That’s what my friend asked when she came by. I’ve been asking mom and friends to TELL me if this is something I bring on myself – I know people like that – but they insist it’s not me – I’m just cursed. I must have been a real asshole in another life.
Hmmm I’m happy to think that they don’t look like the termites that I’ve seen, but I’ve only seen them once. Do all termites look the same? I have no idea.
Surely your next life you will be a queen!
Could be a hover fly. If so, you have nothing to worry about. They eat pest insects
It could be Carpenter Ants.We were swarming with them right after we bought our house.
No clue. But we’re being infested with ants … *and* we have regularly scheduled pest control. I think they are in the stove now *blurg.*
Beats when they were in the plumbing, though. I’d have to run the bath water for about three minutes before the black went away.
My husband is convinced we can somehow bomb them and be rid of them. He has obviously slept through any doomsday pics/special that remind us that insects will inherit the planet, no matter what we do to it … plus, he forgets we’d still have to live in the house afterward.
Good luck!
(PS: those antennae remind me of butterflies and moths, but then again it can be the shaky cam. Can I bring gin and popover shrimp?)
Maybe a Phorid or Scuttle Fly? Beats me, but you’ve got the luck with the bugs! Gah.
Cheers!
Jamie
Those are the ones that mutate from normal flies to bug hunters, so I suggest to get rid of it before they become many.
Those are disgusting! yak, you have to call the exterminator or the will become millions.
Did you get rid of them?? What did you use?
Get rid of it before it’s too late! They maybe hard to eliminate if they stayed longer.