The millions of ants are now also a child at home at the adjacent care center De Meerstede. Head of Facilities Bas Boerlijst does not know what to do with it. “They now crawl through the room with our residents, you really don’t want that. Our pest control does what they can do, but you actually need specialists.”
But those specialists are expensive, very expensive. That is why hope is now mainly located in the municipality. They try to reduce the ant in a ring around the cemetery. But that will not work very quickly, says Wim Piels of the parish. “They think they are working on it for years, they are incredibly difficult animals. So until then we do what we can do, even if the mop with the tap is open.”