When we first were invaded by these small but ferocious creatures, I went in an earth/baby friendly direction and searched for ways to deter them "naturally." I read that cinnamon dusted where they are coming in might help, but they seriously frolicked in this. I also tried pepper (I didn't read this anywhere, but I thought it might work...it didn't). I read that peppermint oil helps, but that is really over my price range when it comes to ants. And when it gets right down to it, I don't want to deter them, I want to annihilate them, and there is really no natural way to do this.
Finally I reached the conclusion that a trip to the hardware store for some poison was necessary (because Ada was trying to catch them and one day she had one on her lip). Cambel was pretty fascinated by this--and possibly traumatized by my explanation as to how the ant poison works, which went something like "they carry it back to their family and it kills them all."
I purchased the cheapest poisonous traps with a satisfaction guaranteed promise (because killing is so satisfying). I installed them where Ada can't get to them and we started waiting for them to die.
And then we found their colony outside.
I mean millions of little brown ants crawling all over each other.
So I did what any good earth/baby friendly mother would do. I grabbed the wasp killer spray (if its good enough to kill wasps, surely it will wipe out ants) and covered those dirty little bugs in foamy white spray.
Take that.
There were no ants in my kitchen this morning.
Nothing like waking up to the death of little pests and being so happy.
2 comments:
WE have had the SAME problem! I think we honestly live on a huge ant hill! and when we find the nest and zap it, they just move! We finally got Terminex, and it has worked great, but the one thing I did do, is put baby powder along the baseboards in the kids rooms. They WILL NOT cross baby powder, it really works! We had some in our bathroom and the guy couldn't come for 3 days so I put a BUNCH of baby powder along the baseboards in our bathroom and not even 1 was there the next day! amazing! This is great to keep them away but certainly doesn't kill them. Oh well, gladto know we aren't the only ones!
What a great story Maria! Very amusing!
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