ANTS!!!

It’s the fruit flies driving me wild this summer, but I feel your pain with the ants. 🙁 They tend to give me crap more in the winter.

Terro kills ants fast and it works . No spraying either . In a day or two they are gone . Kills the entire colany of ants .

‘ant-acids’…….ROFL

I have had the same problems with ants this year, swarms of them. We are in a wooded area and get all kinds of creepy crawlies, racoons, possums, skunks, deer, etc. Yes, deer are a problem too; they ate all my rhododendrons and azaleas enough to kill them off and are now working on my evergreens.

I can adapt to just about everything, but not the ants; I HATE THEM. I tried everything I could find to get rid of them, including vacuuming them up, and nothing worked. I tried different ones by Ortho, Andro, and a third one whose name I forget; they did not work. I have even had all three brands out at once, hoping if one didn’t get them another would. The ants were victorious. Then I found one that did work: Terro Liquid Ant Baits. They have several ant products, including one that has little stakes for outside use; that one didn’t do much.

Try the Terro Liquid Ant Baits; it wiped the ants out completely within three days. It comes in a box of six or nine little trays that are all set to go. You just cut off a little colored spot to give them an access point and then put it down. The hardest part is letting them go in and out again without obliterating them yourself; some die right inside the trays, but the ones that get out are the ones that go back to the nest and do the damage.

We haven’t had any number of ants in quite awhile. There are one or two here and there but that’s it.

I hear borax is great for getting rid of insects.

I’ve learned to live with my little sugar ants, but I don’t have anything close to that kind of problem (I thank the little baby geckos for that… LOL).

I’m a little more tolerant of bugs than most people, being an entomologist… but if it’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s the large American cockroaches!! I so can’t wait to move out of my condo. It’s hard fixing a bug problem when your living space is connected to everyone else’s. GRRRR!! 😐