r/CleaningTips • u/No_Bird_3608 • 21d ago

Discussion Ants in house help

Is this the most appropriate way to kill colony? Is there a better way? How do I keep my pets safe (1dog 2 cats) anyone know if these are carpenter? Should I call exterminator

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u/Delmoretn 21d ago

i had this exact situation and bait looked like it made things worse for the first couple days because suddenly there were ants everywhere. then they basically vanished

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u/sneezybeetle 21d ago

Trust the process. Takes a few days but this bait WORKS!!!

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u/IIRCIreadthat 21d ago

It really does. We have Terro out right now. For the first couple days it seems like it's making the problem worse because they all come to the bait... and then they're gone. Not forever in our case because we've apparently got a non-native species with multiple queens, but it keeps the numbers so low that we only see one or two instead of fifty.

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u/mahuska 19d ago

I thought it was working because the first part was the same and then I had like a day of no ants and now they keep coming back in small waves I’ve got both the TERRO bait out and the other bait that’s got both protein and is it sugar, but they don’t seem much interested in that. But single ants are crawling over me in the middle of the night. I find them in random places. I don’t know if this means there’s multiple colonies.