It is inevitable, that when the sun turns warm and the weather clears that ants should suddenly increase their migration into the building. It must have something to do with the time of the year, and how spring (with the exception of those crazed migrating birds that move TWICE a year) is the season where animals repair their nests and relocate during the slowly lengthening days. It is a yearly ritual that is, evidently, evolutionarily quite sound, because otherwise it would not have continued to this day. It also consequently meant that I have picked out two ants from my bedside, one out of my hair, two off of my laptop (one from the screen and one from the touchpad), and countless milling individuals off of walls and desks.
As a plant biology major, I feel like I ought to be developing a strong tolerance for insects of all kinds. I have nothing against ants--they are an important part of the ecosystem and makes up around 10% of the world's biomass. They're both essential and useful for the correct functioning of the biosphere. They're also numerous and omnipresent so that dealing with their existence is a necessity that the men of the food preservation industry have worried about for as long as the industry of food preservation have existed. I have nothing against ants, I know they're necessary, I simply wish that they are not a) on me or b) on anything that I'm planning to eat.
End rant.
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