MUM LEFT HELPLESS AFTER ANTS INFEST HER BEDROOMS

Tracy claims her desperate pleas for help were ‘palmed off’

ATORYGLEN mum has been left “helpless” after ants infested her and her teenage daughter’s bedrooms. Tracy Rarity, 45, is now accusing Thistle Housing Association of “palming off” the situation, after the housing association told her it them”.

She claimed she first noticed the bugs in her flat over two weeks ago and laid down powder and wrapping over holes in a bid to get rid of them.

She said: “Two weeks ago, my daughter noticed them in her room. There were hundreds, up the wall, up the door and underneath t-shirts in her room.

“A few days later, I was lying in bed with my dog and I noticed queen ants on my bedroom wall and gradually there were more and more.

“We went into the hall and there were hundreds in there.”

Tracy then contacted Thistle Housing, who she has rented the Corlaich Drive flat from for the past four years.

She said: “When was

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I phoned up,

Iwas basically told that there was nothing that they could do about it and they advised me to contact Glasgow City Council environmental department.

“But when I contacted the council, I was told that they don’t deal with bugs, only rodents and things like that. I was getting passed back and forth.

“When I got back in contact with Thistle, it felt as if they were almost laughing at the situation, it’s as if they don’t care.”

Tracy says that Thistle eventually organised for a contractor to come to her house, but was left devastated after she was told that there was nothing that he could do.

She said: “The contractor didn’t turn up to begin with but once he came out, I was told that it was probably coming from my front door which is nonsense because you