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Post by bigtimetroubles on May 1, 2010 23:38:33 GMT -5
I went ahead and started to do some dishes tonight and the sink was crawling with ants....tiny ones...I have ant spray for when they came into the bathroom before....now I need to locate where they are beginning their assault on my dishes and garbage in sink and spray the area. By the way the dishes are in dishwasher and running right now and the other dishes left that would not fit are on top of dishwasher so they can go straight into it when I empty the clean load out of it.
hugs btt
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Post by eagle on May 2, 2010 0:32:48 GMT -5
Hey, at least it wasn't cockroaches.
Good for you for running that load of dishes. I expect you've had some rain lately? That seems to be when the ants want to come inside our houses.
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Post by bigtimetroubles on May 2, 2010 5:58:02 GMT -5
I was unaware of that bit of rain causing them to come inside...ewww yes we have had much rain lately....have the dishwasher to unload now since it is done and dry....still have no idea where they come from but will start to investigate that today.....hugs btt
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Post by canna on May 2, 2010 6:20:14 GMT -5
I have ants come in during the summer sometimes. I look for their "entrance" area; where you can see a line of them entering the kitchen, etc.
I take liquid dishwashing detergent and put that right at the entrance and along the floor, etc of that entrance area.
There were a lot of ants coming in last summer from right outside the front door. Put that dish liquid around the front door area, in a big line squirt all along the wall base of the bricks out front.
That really stopped them. They never returned there.
Found another entrance in the laundry room baseboard and did thesame thing. They were gone.
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Post by dtesposito on May 2, 2010 7:21:38 GMT -5
Several years ago I lived in an apartment where ants would come in one window of one room only. If i washed the windowsill and inside and out with soap and water that seemed to destroy the scent trail and keep them out for a while--no doubt the soap deterred them as well.
I imagine that gave you a creepy-crawly feeling!. One time I went to wash dishes and picked up the dishpan, and underneath was a giant water bug. If my usual procrastination wasn't enough to deter me from washing dishes for a while, that certainly was!!
Diane
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Post by jkai3 on May 2, 2010 8:24:46 GMT -5
What an awful surprise! But how Awesome that you got those dishes done!!!  I myself have used the dish-soap, it really helps. Plus I put borax all around my foundation every month, it doesn't hurt anything in our environment but ants, beetles, & other hard shelled type bugs. A GF told me about that, it seems to work also. As far as "waterbugs" Diane mentioned, I still have nightmares about those things! Since I moved to KS not one giant, scary waterbug have I seen! Now if they were in my sink...shudder...panic mode... Jkai3  |
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Post by mellowyellow on May 2, 2010 10:06:18 GMT -5
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Post by Arid on May 2, 2010 13:29:41 GMT -5
Yep; I've used the cinnamon trick. Unfortunately, it doesn't totally eradicate them. It will help to control them to the point that you can keep them from totally overtaking your kitchen.
As others have mentioned, you need to look for the "hole" where they are getting into the house. We've had them come in through the corner of a window.
They used to show up EVERY April like clockwork--as soon as the temperatures outside got warm.
We got rid of them completely, inadvertently, when we had to have a tree and a porch treated for carpenter ants. Apparently, what kills the carpenter ants knocks out the tiny little "sweet"ants, too.
I'm SO glad to have them gone!!
Arid
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Post by bigtimetroubles on May 2, 2010 16:02:15 GMT -5
thanks for the ideas....nothing done yet...just the dishes which now need to be removed from dishwasher and the next load run....hugs btt
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