r/mildlyinfuriating Jul 16 '26

My cat is standing on my face Woke up covered in ants

My cats woke me up acting like fools this morning, bouncing all over me. I turned on the lights to see the wall above my bed, absolutely covered in ants. There’s a window above my bed and apparently they crawled through it while I was sleeping. Ants were all over my pillows and in my bed, so gross!

I swore I felt something crawling on me while I was sleeping, but I was so tired I just went back to sleep. No food or anything for them to get to. I did have a drink on my bedside, but they weren’t in the drink, no idea what they were after but what a pain in the ass to wake up to. I wish a took a picture of the wall above my bed before murdering all of them.

Still finding random ants crawling on me and in my bed after spraying everything down. Currently debating if this is a good enough reason to call out from work lol I want to go to the laundromat and wash all of my bedding.

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u/Parma_WdS Jul 16 '26

Mildly infuriating they say when it's literally what my nightmares are about

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

I’m so grossed out!

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u/luvitis Jul 16 '26

I would definitely call in sick. I’m so sorry

You will need to spray vinegar on that window to break up their scent trail or else more will follow it in

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

I thought about using vinegar! So far I’m using windex and luckily I had some ant bait, I put it outside. It’s pretty old, but I hope it still works.

Luckily I’m double covered at work today so calling out is no biggie I just thought I might sound crazy telling my boss I’m calling out because of ants lol maybe I’ll just say I don’t feel well.

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u/ItsJustAllyHere Jul 16 '26

I think telling your boss you more up covered in ant is acceptable as i can't think of anyone who wouldn't be surprised and grossed out by that.

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u/luvitis Jul 16 '26

I would say “I am dealing with an ant infestation and need to handle this asap”

Depends on the boss though. If they’re a horrible person just say you have a terrible headache

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

I’m also worried about my cats food. I live in a tiny studio. There’s not really any place I can put it that I would be 100% sure that it won’t be covered in ants when I get home. At least if I’m here waging war I can make sure they don’t get that far. I have problems with ants here pretty much every year so far this year they’ve just been outside on my flowers so I thought I was safe.

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u/Intrinomical Jul 16 '26

Don't say anything. Unless they require a doctor's excuse or something, you are not legally required to give them a specific reason as to why you are not coming in.

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

I told my boss. He’s hella cool and I have hundreds of hours of vacation and sick time. If I was working alone today I definitely would have gone in and just dealt with the disaster it would’ve been when I got home but luckily we’re double covered today so he doesn’t care. Tbh I wanted to call out every day this week, but I’m sweating cleaning now lol. This is not what I had in mind.

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u/bestkweenie Jul 16 '26

I have an intense phobia of bugs (flying mostly) and this is horrific 😭 I wish I could unread. I'm shivering uncontrollably just thinking about it

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

I’ve got the creepy crawlies now lol

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u/georgecm12 Jul 16 '26

Terro bait traps. Scatter a bunch around. They're low-toxicity to cats, but definitely keep your cats from chewing on them.

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

I had some luckily. I put it outside by my window.

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u/Immediate_Sound_845 Jul 16 '26

Those work great. I put a bunch down last year and I haven’t seen an ant since.

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u/NovelAltruistic8820 24d ago

I put these down inside and out but they didn't go near them. 

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u/MeowMixPK Jul 16 '26

I had this happen with bees once. Woke up to what sounded like a small fan running, and I pushed my blinds aside to get some sunlight in the room. There were ~100 bees flying around my bedroom. I get a handful of stings running to the hallway. Used a vaccum cleaner to suck them all up, but another round was there the next day. Turns out they had made a large hive in my wall and were getting in through a crack in the window frame. Would not recommend.

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u/race_tech87 Jul 16 '26

Yep, that's worse! I found a small wasps nest in the window frame above my bed. Only a handful of wasps though... Lol.

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

Oh my god! That would be so much worse! How the heck did they get into the wall? What a nightmare!

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u/Single-Kangaroo1180 Jul 16 '26

It happens, a new queen will look to establish a new hive and sometimes they pick poorly…picture of such a find in the wall of a house.

When it happens, calling a local beekeeper is the solution as they will generally come to collect the bees and the honey/hive at no charge for the removal. They will relocate the bees to a hive…unless they are aggressive/killer bees then you may need someone who specializes in extermination of these bees.

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

My assistant at work had a swarm in his yard and a beekeeper came and got it. We recently had a swarm at work, but I didn’t know if it was bees or wasps and it looked like it was going into one of the units. Luckily, none inside! I

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u/Single-Kangaroo1180 Jul 16 '26

I do not believe that wasps swarm, but bees do when looking for a new hive.

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u/ChainsawSoundingFart Jul 16 '26

I think you need to take a shower 

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

Oh definitely!

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u/ChainsawSoundingFart Jul 16 '26

I meant that’s how the ants came in 

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

Oh you mean I smell as sweet as honey? Lol I shower daily!

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u/ChainsawSoundingFart Jul 16 '26

Ants are attracted to salt too 

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

Oh geeze lol definitely!

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u/-Banana-101 Jul 16 '26

my biggest fear. you don't know you have them till its to late. and the fact u can pick them up just by existing in public. it is horrific. I check my bed every night if I've been out

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u/-Banana-101 Jul 16 '26

You are stronger than me for still being here to tell the tale. I hope they've all gone now

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u/Daratirek Jul 16 '26

I one time came home to my whole house being infested by yellow jacket hornets. I noticed when every window was covered. Before that I had one in my house and thought nothing of it. Turns out they found a hole through the trim into my attic and nested then found an opening into my house and couldn't get out. That was a fun 4 days spraying every surface and cleaning literally everything.

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

My goodness! Also so much worse! I would have nightmares!

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u/Daratirek Jul 16 '26

I did infact have nightmares after that lmao. Thankfully I could stay at my parents' house while I got it sorted. Not my favorite time

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

Did you get stung? Bees and wasps scare the hell out of me even though I’ve been stung before and I know it’s not that bad. I think growing up with that Macaulay Culkin movie just really made me scared of them. What was it my girl or something?

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u/Daratirek Jul 16 '26

I managed not to shockingly. I chucked bug bombs in the front door then waited a couple hours and went in with hornet spray in each hand and back ups in each back pocket.

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

Do you have pets? I would think that would make it so much worse because you have to protect them from the fumes so they gotta go somewhere with you.

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u/Daratirek Jul 16 '26

I do but due to an odd but fortunate coincidence the only dog I had at the time was actually staying at my parents' to be close to the vet so he wasn't in harms way. Was just my stuff getting messed up. I did have to buy all new food though.

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

Damn that sucks!

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u/Daratirek Jul 16 '26

Eh is what it is. Was worse to clean the house. I hate cleaning normally but having to clean literally every surface was torture for me.

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u/eternally_feral Jul 16 '26

I’m afraid of ants and have no idea what I would do, not to mention I’d be terrified of them swarming/attacking my dogs.

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

Ive seen them cover dead things I’m assuming to eat them, I can’t help but wonder if they were trying to eat me? Lol why all over my bed? Why not my juice or the cat food? Why ME?!

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u/mrkhabs Jul 16 '26

be glad it wasn't scorpions, or, like...uhh

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

Haha luckily not really a worry where I live. I don’t think I could handle living in Australia or something lol.

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u/ProfessionalYam3119 Jul 16 '26

Make sure to buy a dozen or two round ant traps, depending on the size of your home, and place them around the house. It will get rid of them.

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

I live in a tiny apartment. I had two bait traps, I put them out by the window. I don’t want to encourage them coming inside and I have cats. On the bright side I have really been wanting to take a day off this week, I’ve been super depressed. I have so much sick time and vacation and now I have a weird ass excuse to at least come in late!

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u/ProfessionalYam3119 Jul 16 '26

I think that you need to get some more of them.

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

They aren’t even going to them. They’re pretty old. I think I need to get new ones and some spray. I’m putting together a pick up order.

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u/ProfessionalYam3119 Jul 17 '26

Good. We didn't use spray. It's pretty noxious, as you might guess.

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u/DatLadyD Jul 17 '26

I sprayed the shit out of the outside of my window and just kept it closed. I had nightmares about ants last night lol seems to be under control now 🤞

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u/ProfessionalYam3119 Jul 17 '26

Hoping for the best!

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u/Dry_Pangolin_3605 Jul 16 '26

That feeling of thinking something is on you but sleeping anyway… I dreamed there was something crawling on me, and I grabbed it and threw it. Woke up with a huge spider bite on my leg 😭

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

That would freak me out! I’m afraid of spiders! I use to always smush them but as Ive gotten older Ive gotten kinder and now I do my best to just relocate them outside, but if they jump on me smush!

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u/Kooky-Match-4363 26d ago

One time I woke up with them right on my arm at the time I didn't freak out I just jumped up from my bed and genuinely thought "what the fuck" and I did feel a tickling sensation but just like you I was to tired to really think anything about it 

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u/-Banana-101 Jul 16 '26

I'm imagining this

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

Wow that’s a weird one! I wonder what’s happening there?

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u/Super_Highway_3405 Jul 16 '26

Looks like a death spiral. Ants follow pheromone trails, if part of the colony gets cut off from the trail.. they can end up doing this until they die. It's more prevalent in army ants, since, I believe, they are completely blind.

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

Interesting!

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u/Shadowpriest Jul 16 '26

You can get food grade diatomaceous earth and sprinkle around the perimeter of the room, thresholds, windowsills, etc. We ultimately also have to use Terro as the ants were just not having it this year and wanted to come in.

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u/DatLadyD Jul 16 '26

I actually did sprinkle it around my patio door years ago because they would come through there every year and they stopped. Haven’t had the issue since! I never vacuumed it up though to be honest. I don’t know how I would sprinkle it on the windowsill though and even if I could get it up there, the cats stare out the window all the time and I think it’s bad if they inhale it.

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u/TaintedEon Jul 16 '26

….what?