When Katie Guhl traveled to a wedding in New Orleans and a Memorial Day gathering in New Jersey, she had left her apartment perfectly clean but when she came back, she found swarms of ants in her kitchen.
“There were no crumbs to be had,” she said. She had never seen ants there and had not expected to.
She lives on the 6th floor. Unlike cockroaches, ants aren’t as common in high buildings and prefer parks and yards. But scientists who study ants say a species from Europe had recently made homes in the city, and now they were living in apartments.
On the r/Brooklyn forum of Reddit, another ant invasion witness wrote, “Woke up this morning to ants crawling around my living room. I live on the 3rd floor and have never had problems with any insect.”
Another added, “I worked in an apartment building, and the 25th floor had ants in midtown.”
“They just showed up one day,” said Melissa Russel Paige who had lived on the second floor in a Brooklyn apartment for 8 years and had “never saw an ant even once.” Her upstairs neighbor had them too. In a text message, she shared three photos of liquid ant baits each filled with ant corpses.
“There were no crumbs to be had,” she said. She had never seen ants there and had not expected to.
She lives on the 6th floor. Unlike cockroaches, ants aren’t as common in high buildings and prefer parks and yards. But scientists who study ants say a species from Europe had recently made homes in the city, and now they were living in apartments.
On the r/Brooklyn forum of Reddit, another ant invasion witness wrote, “Woke up this morning to ants crawling around my living room. I live on the 3rd floor and have never had problems with any insect.”
Another added, “I worked in an apartment building, and the 25th floor had ants in midtown.”
“They just showed up one day,” said Melissa Russel Paige who had lived on the second floor in a Brooklyn apartment for 8 years and had “never saw an ant even once.” Her upstairs neighbor had them too. In a text message, she shared three photos of liquid ant baits each filled with ant corpses.
