Springtime, Free Fishing weekend, and carpenter ants

[uppityperson]

This weekend you do not need a fishing license, but all the rules still apply, to fish in WA. They do this the first weekend (or some such) in June annually, just read that this is it.

Secondly, carpenter ants are swarming here. They are coming out and crawling everywhere. Do NOT panic if you see them, even a bunch, as they are very active right now. They are looking for damp wood, or stacked wood that can be humid enough to make a good place to live. The majority of those crawling around will become bird food and/or compost for the earth. If you still see them in a few weeks, then you might try to figure out where they are and get rid of them. For now, they are a only apain, crawling all over, including in my hair and across my bed at night (formication-the sensation of ants crawling on your skin).

[seabeckind]

1. It's not just the carpenters

It's all of them...especially them little brown ones. They're everywhere.

Nobody told me about this part before I moved here!

[uppityperson]

2. Buy some borax at the building supply store, maybe grocery store

I got some labeled "roach killer" and it is just borax powder. I put it in a line outside my doors and it really slowed the little guys down as they don't like to cross it.

Carpenter ants just sneer at it though.

The little guys don't seem to go for grease or sugar in particular, but did like the dog and cat food.

Soon this will pass and we will get into moth season. Remind me to warn you about yellow-jackets come late Aug/Sept as they get really nasty then. Actually, I'll tell you now. They lose a digestive enzyme late summer so all the food they get they take back for the queen to winter on. They are starving and get really aggressive around the end of August and into Sept.

[stumprancher]

3. The yellow jackets

are here now on the Oregon coast.