Ants!

[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.