Every single person on this thread recommended Terro. Yet, we have microscopic ants that are so small we tend not to see them unless they are on a very light surface, and they don't seem to be attracted to Terro at all. I have no idea how to get rid of ours.

Excellent advice, work’s fantastic. Terro liquid pack. 😎

We always use a mixture of borax and honey. One tab of each, mix together on a 4 inch sq of tin foil. Leave it where you see the ant trail for three days. DO NOT KILL THE ANTS WHEN THEY COME TO FEAST. Let them gorge them selves so they can take everything they can eat back to the nest. They will feed all the rest of the colony and the entire colony will perish. 3 days!

Sugar ants, often seasonal. Call Massey Services. They have a liquid they apply under your counters, takes about five minutes and ants are gone in a day or so.

Used it for years.
 

Terro ant killer. Amazon has it. 2 oz bottle. Just put a drop or two along their path. And be patient, about 1-2 days they will be gone. The ants take it back to the colony and the queen will die.

We had tiny bugs. They had infested a sealed box of rice in a kitchen cabinet. Chewed through the wrapper. The exterminator lady from Dean’s discovered it. Got rid of the box and used Terro to get rid of the bugs. We now store all food boxes in the frig when leaving for extended periods.

Terro in the Blue and Orange Box
 

Ghost Ants. Terro will do the job. Once one ant finds the terro (leave a drop or two on a tiny piece of cardboard, OR use the disposable traps) the word gets out and they all seem to find it. It is then brought to the colony. As others have said, do not spray. This will disperse them and result in multiple colonies.

:shrug: May I ask where you read that? :1rotfl::1rotfl:

Has anyone heard of Terro?:evil6:

:confused: Is that the stuff to get rid of ants? :thumbup:

Sounds like you need a fresh bottle of Terro

I’ve had ghost ants in the past. They were coming from paper grocery bags and boxes from Publix. Then they infested my house and I had to have a pest control service get rid of them. Florida has too many creepy-crawlers, snakes of all kinds and big, grotesque alligators. I can only imagine what kind of dysfunctional hellscapes Villagers left behind to be able to put up with all of this! :ohdear:

Old Man Winter ❄️.

I put those terro bait thingies down where the ants were clustering - on the kitchen counter near the toaster oven, next to the entry to the house by the door, and on the bathroom counter behind the sink (they were coming up through the drain, it looked like).

Someone told me the ants would go away by themselves eventually, usually within a week.

These little critters stuck around - in fact they really LOVED that terro. They lined up to coat themselves with it. Thousands and thousands of ants. My poor cat could barely eat because they would make a bee-line from the terro bait to the food dish and I wasn't home 24/7 to make sure the dish wasn't covered with them.

They eventually went away after a week.

The terro just attracted them. That's why it's called bait.

This year I think I'll go back to diatomaceous earth inside and outside.

Yes, the Terro attracts the ants. The ants then come by the hundreds/thousands to eat the Terro and take it back to the colony. Since Terro is also poisonous to ants, this has the effect of not only killing the ants that ate it but also the ants they took it back to. It sounds like you had a particularly large problem and the Terro worked as expected.