Since it started getting wet around here about a month ago we’ve had a bit of an ant problem in our kitchen. We tried keeping food out of the kitchen as much as possible, but all that seemed to do was make the ants increase their search radius. I tried some Raid dry ant baits, but they would have none of it.
Yesterday, we got some of these Terro liquid ant baits. Spilled a bit of it in the sink and one of the scouts had found it by noon. By 2:00, there were so many crowding around the goop that they were having to crawl over each other to get at that sweet, sweet nectar. There were a ton all around the perimeter of the drop of bait I had spilled and they were making their way into the trap itself. More continued to stream out of the wall and attack the two traps they had found. So many were around the bait that I thought we had a bunch of dead ants blocking access to the bait by the live ones.
Then we got home from dinner last night, and they were all gone. Apparently all the ones I thought were dead were just busy drinking that stuff up, and it looks like all of them other than two made it back to the nest. I left the traps out again today and was kind of hoping for a second round coming to take the bait because it was just so cool to watch, but it looks like one day of bait has stopped them cold.
Next time, I’ll take a picture.
3 responses so far ↓
1 Raj // Sep 24, 2006 at 10:08 pm
As a temporary fix for ants in the kitchen, I’ve always used Scrubbing Bubbles. You get the satisfaction of knowing that you are killing the ants by partially dissolving them and you clean the kitchen. Two birds.
2 Gurney_Halleck // Sep 28, 2006 at 9:07 am
How’d it go now? “What’s more disturbing than a dead hooker? Ants, ants, ants!!”
I liked this one: “A man kicks another man in the testacles. The pain is so intense he must vomit.”
3 Ryan Olson // Sep 28, 2006 at 11:23 am
I meant to YouTube search for this. I assume it would be there, everything else seems to be.
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