Ants are still invading our kitchen. They seem to really enjoy empty yogurt containers, the dregs of orange juice, and pancake batter and I have to wonder...did the previous owners never eat yogurt or drink orange juice or spill pancake batter and miss wiping up one little droplet? Or did they, too, have ants filing in and out of the windowsill at all hours of the day, hoping to find delectable droppings?
I honestly don't remember seeing any ants when we walked through the house. Nary a one.
And this family had dog and cat food just sitting out on their kitchen floor for the taking!
Surely ants like pet food!
Or perhaps they don't. Ants can be surprising sometimes.
This evening I was putting some green beans in the microwave and when I grabbed the lid for the dish I saw a few stray ants endlessly perambulating the circumference. I blew a couple off, flicked off another one, then shrugged and put the last few in the microwave along with the lid. Because surely they'd just be nuked in a flash, right?
Wrong!
I took the green beans out of the microwave and set them on the table and the ants, who'd seemed to have hunkered down for their merry-go-round ride in the microwave, got back up and started marching around the lid again.
We were all shocked. Apparently ants aren't microwavable.
We're planning on caulking around the window ledges (this helped in our Hummingbird Lane house) but I'm afraid we can only do that when we get a lull in traffic from that spot. It's ridiculously busy, but I suppose since Atlanta is infamous for its terrible traffic we shouldn't be too surprised by this.
I honestly don't remember seeing any ants when we walked through the house. Nary a one.
And this family had dog and cat food just sitting out on their kitchen floor for the taking!
Surely ants like pet food!
Or perhaps they don't. Ants can be surprising sometimes.
This evening I was putting some green beans in the microwave and when I grabbed the lid for the dish I saw a few stray ants endlessly perambulating the circumference. I blew a couple off, flicked off another one, then shrugged and put the last few in the microwave along with the lid. Because surely they'd just be nuked in a flash, right?
Wrong!
I took the green beans out of the microwave and set them on the table and the ants, who'd seemed to have hunkered down for their merry-go-round ride in the microwave, got back up and started marching around the lid again.
We were all shocked. Apparently ants aren't microwavable.
We're planning on caulking around the window ledges (this helped in our Hummingbird Lane house) but I'm afraid we can only do that when we get a lull in traffic from that spot. It's ridiculously busy, but I suppose since Atlanta is infamous for its terrible traffic we shouldn't be too surprised by this.
We had trouble with the larger black ants earlier this year (first time since we bought this house nearly five years ago). I don't know if this would help your ant problem, but the Terro liquid ant baits helped us. I got them at Walmart for a few dollars (6 pack for less than $5...just looked on Google.)
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