We are having a War with the Ants around here
It's hot here, it's cool inside the house, so I guess that's why they are suddenly swarming inside
It's hot here, it's cool inside the house, so I guess that's why they are suddenly swarming inside
They are everywhere we look: every tiny tiny morsel of food in the kitchen
Bits of moisture on laundry, sticky medicine bottles, crumbs on the floor
ANYTHING
Bug guy come all the time it seems
They just come back
Bug guy come all the time it seems
They just come back
So we have decided to take matters into our own hands
We did two different things that we found online and so far they are actually working:
1. Find the HOLES: we went out to the perimeters of our house and tried to find where they were coming in and pretty soon we found several places. Big thick lines of ants going into our house and into the frame itself (since the OTHER side of the wall had no bugs). We patched those holes with spackle and the ants were blocked!!!
2. We mixed a conconction of ant deterrent: Paprika, Cayenne, Black Pepper, Garlic Powder and Cinnamon. The Ants HATE this and will rarely even touch the stuff. (Online said mostly because of the smell). We put along the pathway of where they were coming up to the house and along the base of the house so they wouldn't try and find any other holes
So the only problem with all this is I think there was already a base of ants inside our house somewhere.
So beware if you do this, that when you lock all of the ants OUT.
You are also locking all the ants that are already INSIDE your house, IN.
So the next day we had this MAJOR infestation in our kitchen. Ants EVERYWHERE trying to get at any scrap of food EVER.
So we found a few more holes we never knew we had among the bottom of our cabinets, and fixed those. Today we are waiting to see what other holes they will find now....
and maybe in a few days we'll drive them all out...
