I noticed that I would see ants after chicken day, super tiny ones, finally realising that they were finding miniscule scraps of protein and swarming them. I’ve learned to wipe down the entire kitchen, including the table and floor, with Lysol wipes after consuming meat and to bring meaty trash immediately outside.

But I’ve never seen bugs otherwise, not in a trash can full of fruit peels I forgot to take outside the next day, not in a few crack crumbs that spilled on my desk.

Until today.

All I will say is that the honey will be stored in the fridge from now on.

I can deal with the emergence of the tiny ants, knowing that my neighbour had cockroaches last year… OMG.