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Originally Posted by nanci2539
Yes, I did. I finally called a pest service and they are called moisture ants or something like that. They really don't look like a ant as we know them to look. They look like they have wings but they don't fly. Very tiny to larger. They look for sweets and bring it back to the queen. The pest service put some sweet traps on my window and treated the outside. I won't have any kind of chemical sprayed in the house. It worked in one day. I am now bug free!
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For most kinds of ants, Terro ant killer is amazingly effective and cheap and safe. It is basically borax in a sweet solution. You put put a few drops where ants are hanging out. They flock to it and carry it back to their nest and feed it to the queen. In a few days, you will see dozens of ant corpses and NO live ants. As I understand it, the borax expands inside the ants and physically kills them by crushing their organs, as opposed to poisoning them. Gory, but effective-- much more effective and cheaper than the standard ant-motel style traps, which ants seem to ignore.
I have used it in Florida against sweet ants, and up north to wipe out carpenter ants (after an exterminator failed to do so).