Ants!

[Di bear]

What do you do for wood ants? I have wood ants. I hate them.

[Mr. Bloom]

What do you do for wood ants? I have wood ants. I hate them.

Are they like termites? If so, that needs a pro!
We had termites once...not a pretty sight!

[Trekhawk]

Sorry to hear about your Ant problem Brandi.

I have never had too many problems with Ants so can not offer any good advice.

LOL it sounds like TE is being invaded by the insect kingdom.

Millipedes, Cockroaches, Ants what will it be next?

I shudder to think.

[Andrea]

Please let me know if you find anything pet/environmentally friendly that works! My little house is old and doesn't have a foundation (think normal house sitting on blocks like a house trailer), and I get random ants crawling around in my bathroom because it's close to the ground and has a block right under it. I can use regular big spray to keep them out, but I hate the smell & worry about my dog sniffing around in it.

[OakLeaf]

I've been very successful with boric acid. It isn't non-toxic, but it's much less toxic to mammals than some of the other insecticides, and you can keep it in corners and crevices where pets can't get to it. The "nice" thing about ants is that they follow their little trails, so you just have to cross their path with a line of boric acid, and they don't know enough to go around it. Follow their trail to their point of entry from outside, and treat that, too.

[Andrea]

I have a Jack Russell Terrier- he is magnetized to crevices! I honestly can't find where they're coming in because they aren't in a line, and there are never more than a couple wandering around on the counter top. I may end up crawling under the house and spreading boric acid on the ground under my bathroom

[Brandi]

One year before we got our new fridge the ants had found a way into the freezer! The would crawl in there and all die. It was the strangest thing we had ever seen. You would open the freezer and it looked like someone had dumped a ton of coffee grounds all over everything! You almost couldn't see the food anymore. We had to use a vaccum to get them all out. this happen at least 4 times. I started putting those little walk into and take back to the nest traps. i don't know if they work but I feel better knowing the cats won't get into it. I tape them around where the cats eat too cause they get into their kibble. so I tape them against the counter wall and under the cabnit as well.

[Melalvai]

Please let me know if you find anything pet/environmentally friendly that works! My little house is old and doesn't have a foundation (think normal house sitting on blocks like a house trailer), and I get random ants crawling around in my bathroom because it's close to the ground and has a block right under it. I can use regular big spray to keep them out, but I hate the smell & worry about my dog sniffing around in it.

Isn't Terro just sugar water with boric acid? That's not harmless but it's not terrible. Plus you could easily position things so the dog can't get to it (but the ants can).

[Mr. Bloom]

Isn't Terro just sugar water with boric acid? That's not harmless but it's not terrible. Plus you could easily position things so the dog can't get to it (but the ants can).

I would view Terro as "spot killing" without excess. Unlike a spray (that has overspray), the ant comes to Terro and then brings back a minor residue that kills others in the nest. I think that is an environmentally sensitive method and the method of distribution through the traps mitigates the risk to pets somewhat.

Once, at my parents house, I had to keep a fresh trap in one place for about 4 months before the ants stopped coming....For all I know, I may have killed half the ants in southern indiana.