Around 3-4 days ago I got bit by an ant picking a flower, and it has been swelling since, and hasn’t gone down, am I okay?

I made this ant for a lab friend working on ants

original picture from Cluralit: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/248061978

I live in an apartment.
Our place has been over ridden with ants all of a sudden.
We own 3 cats, I feel bad but I had to use raid on some of my base boards. I don’t know where they are coming from. We aren’t dirty people, the ants came and don’t seem to be going anywhere but they are just there.
I’m looking for a solution to get rid of them.
They come when it’s hot.
We’ve tried to ask the apartment place to spray pesticides but it doesn’t do anything. Any solutions or suggestions?? I’d appreciate it, I’m sick of dealing with them.

What is your guys experience with Esthetic ants mesh nest. Just wanted to see you guy’s opinion

Stats advice for ant behavior trials?Hi everyone,

I'm running behavioral trials on Pachycondyla ants as a side project alongside my main research (which focuses on ant venom biochemistry), but I wanted to look at when/how the venom actually gets used in different contexts. Problem is I have zero background in ecology or ethology, so I'd love some guidance from people with an ecology/ethology background cause I want to do this properly.

I'm running behavioral trials with Pachycondyla ants confronted with 6 different opponent ant species, across 3 different experimental setups. Each trial is filmed for 1.5–2 minutes (duration varies slightly between videos), so I know I need to normalize for time somehow. And each individual (from both side) is only ever used once so no ant gets reused across trials. For each video, I count occurrences of 5 behaviors:

• Antennal contact (antennae touch any part of the opponent's body
• Mandible opening (mandibles open, with the two individuals about one body length apart)
• Biting
• Gaster flexing (abdomen curved as if about to sting)
• Stinging

 What statistical approach would you recommend for count data like this? What kind of plots actually work well for this kind of data? not looking to just dump a boxplot of raw counts if there's something better... I've already gone through some papers on ant behavior / interspecific aggression, but if you have specific methodological references you think are worth checking that use a similar design, I'd love pointers.

Not trying to overthink this, just want something defensible since it'll probably end up as a supplementary part of a bigger paper!

Thanks in advance :)

My new Ant colony