It’s getting hotter and dryer and the ants can tell. I woke up this morning and saw some good sized trails in our kitchen. My wife and I have this battle every year and here are some tips we’ve picked up:
- Unequivocally, the most important thing is to take away their food source. ie; clean! The pesticides and other chemicals are all useless if there is food exposed (especially sweet stuff).
- Boric acid. Get it. Have it around. It ROCKS.
- Ant “motel” type traps. these actually are just poison “baits” where the ants go in and bite off chunks of sweet tasting poion and then go elsewhere never to return again.
- Use Boric acid or whatever other chemicals you prefer along the perimeters of your home along with any crack or crevice where ants seem to be getting in. There has to be a passageway . . . that’s the place to hit them.
- Make sure you keep all food wiped off counters and all your food items in the pantry are sealed or closed tightly. After you do all these things for a couple days or maybe a week, the ants go find better and easier food sources.
Did I cover this well? Tell me what you do that I haven’t said?
Hi. I'm Damien Riley, MA.
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When we were in South Florida, to add to this, we were told that one species of the tiny ants did not take poisons back to their nest, so you had to find the nest because the others would just continue to follow the original trail. The other species took the bait or poison back to the nest with them and wiped out the whole thing.
Your comment about food source is the all important one!
OMG! The species that resists insecticide! ahhhhhh. THEMMMMMM!!!