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Ideal_Rock
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So I was sitting the office the other day, when all the phones started ringing. All of them. All lines, every phone, just ringing, and it was loud. 
I picked up my phone, it stopped for a second then started up again, even though the handset was in my hand.
I went to get DH, and he said it had to be the base unit. So we looked at the (still ringing) base unit, and it looked okay. But then an ant came out. A carpenter ant. DH and I looked at each other and said "Oh, no, not again".
We took the base unit outside and started banging on it. Ants started pouring out. Dozens and dozens of them. Then hundreds, like a black river of bugginess. They were everywhere, trying to crawl on us, every freaking where. We calmly found some bug spray (remember, we have been through this before) and sprayed the ones we could reach. DH unscrewed the case, hundreds more ants, we couldn't figure how they all fit in there and the phone had continued to work! About half an hour later, we had cleaned them out and put the phone back together. Plugged it in, worked fine. Outside looked like antmageddon.
Over the years we have found carpenter ants in;
One office fax machine
One home copy machine
One of those 5 gallon water jug dispensers (that was particularly gross)
These were all in different locations in different cities! But all in the south.
So next time an exterminator says you have wood damage because he's seen a carpenter ant, just ask him if he was standing near your copier.
Tried to take pics, but interestingly, you can't see a single ant, they all moved so fast.
I picked up my phone, it stopped for a second then started up again, even though the handset was in my hand. I went to get DH, and he said it had to be the base unit. So we looked at the (still ringing) base unit, and it looked okay. But then an ant came out. A carpenter ant. DH and I looked at each other and said "Oh, no, not again".
We took the base unit outside and started banging on it. Ants started pouring out. Dozens and dozens of them. Then hundreds, like a black river of bugginess.
They were everywhere, trying to crawl on us, every freaking where. We calmly found some bug spray (remember, we have been through this before) and sprayed the ones we could reach. DH unscrewed the case, hundreds more ants, we couldn't figure how they all fit in there and the phone had continued to work! About half an hour later, we had cleaned them out and put the phone back together. Plugged it in, worked fine. Outside looked like antmageddon. Over the years we have found carpenter ants in;
One office fax machine
One home copy machine
One of those 5 gallon water jug dispensers (that was particularly gross)
These were all in different locations in different cities! But all in the south.
So next time an exterminator says you have wood damage because he's seen a carpenter ant, just ask him if he was standing near your copier.
Tried to take pics, but interestingly, you can't see a single ant, they all moved so fast.
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