You know what they don't tell ya when the building next door gets knocked down?
The ants. They don't tell ya about the friggin' ants. They take every food source away and grade the site so it's flat and neat, but there're still millions of ants looking to get fed.
Add to that some rain that has no storm water drains to go into and so raise the water table, and you've got bajillions of the buggers looking to get fed. Where do they go? My place apparently. ๐คฌ
That is all.
Ugh. You have my sympathies. ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐ ๐
๐ Thanks!
Once, I bought a flat of fresh peaches. I planned to freeze some & make a peach pie with the rest the next day.
In the middle of the night, I heard a weird rustling & an acrid smell. I went downstairs & the flat of peaches, along with the entire kitchen counter, the floor, & the DRAPES were covered with thousands of ants. The rustling was the movement of the drapes they caused! And have you ever smashed an ant and smelled it? There were so many ants I could smell the same odor!!!
Ugh!
And yeah, the formic acid smell is yuck!
The way things are here right now, my workshop reeks of it. I vacuum up heaps of them out there every morning. ๐ก
Those are what I used in the before times when they only got in every now and again. They seem to do a pretty good job.
This influx called for some MacGyvering on top of those and we're basically just mixing up our own version of those traps on a bigger scale ๐
Seems to be working okay ๐ค
I've done that before - mixed my own laundry borax with a little sugar to attract them. Add water. Put in little holders around the foundation.
Stick some food grade DE in there to demolish their exoskeletons.
(Food grade in case any other animals eat it -- cats, mice, etc).
@DyDave have you tried the boric acid ant traps? They seem to go for it, and it is moderately environmentally friendly.