I have a problem that I haven't had to deal with. We are living in the country in a mfg. home and last night I got up, in the dark, and grabbed my T shirt off the nightstand where we had put an old pillow. I put it on and by the time I reached the kitchen, I was ALIVE with these tiny black ants that had decided to make a buffet out of my upper torso!! Talk about an unnerving, painful way to wake up at 4am!!! Anyway, I woke my wife with all my fussing and turned the light on to find the pillow that the shirt was lying on was infested with these small black ants. I got the bug spray out and sprayed the pillow and the entire area around it and threw the pillow outside. Tonight, I was preparing dinner and got up in the food cupboard to get something and found a box of crackers infested with the same ants. I got the hell bit out of me again before I could get the box in the trash and thrown outside. Again, I sprayed the heck out of the cupboard and threw out all the unsealed foods. We noticed that all along the baseboards these small black specks that turned out to be dead ants!! Why were they there and why did they die?? No live ants on the floor, just dead ones. It's too late here to get an exterminator out, so I thought I'd see if anyone has had this problem and what to do. Thanks for any help. BTW, what can you put on these stings/bites to make them feel better?? Thanks ahead of time.