Severe ant infestation in a rental property
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Terro kills too quickly.
Need to put out a few different brands — think buffet. Not every ant likes the same food.
That'll do it but you'll have thousands of dead ants in your walls. They burst on their march back to the colony. Reminds me of my old neighbor who was joking (?) about someone (him?) hiding something (a human head?) in the wall behind the P-trap under his kitchen sink. The wall had been sloppily patched and there was a weird rotten brain odor. Hey @Jdeere562 , what do you think?
I'd be tempted to build a one-way trap that contains an irresistible bait and diatomaceous earth. That will cut the little bastards to bits. Luckily, I do not have ants, only my Aunt Birdie and she's gone. Too much booze. if you get ants to walk in a circle they will keep walking until they drop dead.
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Actually when I start seeing little brown ants in the house I go outside with the borax and sugar water. The driveway cracks get all kinds of ants and I just pour the mix along the cracks. A week goes by and no new dirt and no ants inside.
They march to the ant cemetery and burst simultaneously. I dunno. There isn't much to an ant. Once it's dries out, which should happen quickly due to its small size, it'll turn into chitin dust. That's an allergen. Chitin takes a good amount of time to biodegrade which happens due to an anzymatic reaction. I would make sure the ants don't die inside my house in large numbers unless I can remove them. Blue Aardvark?
That's what spiders are for.....
Hmm, I think my wife may prefer an aardvark.
