Every spring for the last couple years, we’ve gotten sweet eating ants in our kitchen. They invade for a couple weeks and then, after getting a bellyfull of the Terro I put down everywhere, disappear. Whether they actually die or just start doing something else away from our kitchen, I don’t know.
I was looking at the Terro box the other day and noticed it’s bilingual now. There, across, the front, it says, “Mata hormigas.” I love it that one of the shorter words in the English language has three syllables in Spanish. Webster says ant came from Old English. I wonder what hormiga’s past is. Too bad I’m not related to any graduate students in Spanish….