HEllo FML -- Maybe you remember the attack of the ants we had on our ferrets a few months ago? Though most of them came to us for help removing the ants (and we ferreted out the rest and removed from them too), the ferrets also did a pretty good job of killing the ants themselves -- we found some dead ants on the ones who didn't show up on their own. Luckily none of them had a major physical reaction to the bites. Abt 40 years ago, my first husbaand and I woke up (here in Addis) to an attack. That was a pretty frantic hour or so. We prevented them from returning by putting eucalyptus leaves around the bed and at the bottoms of the walls. Oddly enough I got a minor attack last night -- my first since that one in 1968ish. THere were just three ants and none actually bit. I caught, crushed, and flushed them, pulled the bed away from the walls, and went back to sleep w no more troubles. MAybe they just came in on the bedding -- it gets aired outside each day, and these ants (called goondahn) come around during the rainy season, which it is now. FYI, both beds were/are just mattresses on the floor. In those days, an Indian spread on a matress on the floor was fashionable, as I am sure some of you remember. When I got back to the US I had had enough of that and I had a bed built that was high enough to be level w the window sill so I could look out into a fig tree that grew there. As for now, I am back on the floor -- still waiting to get my bed throgh Customs! [Posted in FML 6039]