invasion of the ants

The Flatemate HAH and I used to always proudly announce how we never ever use the dishwasher at home; we always always hand wash our dirty dishes. Now, would anyone even think that this is a bad thing?

A couple of weeks ago, we started noticing random ants around the kitchen area. That progressed to long trails of ants everywhere in just a few days. After some investigation by HAH, we discovered to our HORROR that there is an entire colony of ants residing and multiplying inside the unused dishwasher!!! There must have been millions of them!!!

We spent a frantic afternoon: 1) driving to the nearest supermarket to get a new can of Baygon cos we used up our existing can, 2) spraying Baygon everywhere in the kitchen, 3) cleaning and re-cleaning the ant corpses left behind, 4) turning on the dishwasher to let it run for at least three wash cycles to rid it of its unwelcome residents, before we were satisfied that we've completely destroyed the colony.

If you click to enlarge the pics below, you'll see some of the corpses from the above tragedy. Of course I didn't dare to take pics of them inside the dishwasher - HAH and I were too grossed out by the scene to even fully open up the dishwasher for more than a peek!





Lesson learnt: nothing, absolutely nothing, should be left idling for too long.