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mathmama
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Posted: Feb 15 2012 at 8:54am \| IP Logged

Here it is the middle of the winter and we have ants in our house. So frustrating! They are really tiny ants that are coming out of a crack in the wall. It is an interior wall, but that room wasn't built properly with a footer and such, so we get weird stuff like this. Anyway, we noticed them about 2-3 weeks ago and started using Terro. In the past, we have had success with Terro and the ants seem to really like it, but it hasn't eliminated them yet. Do we need to be more patient? Does anyone else have a suggestion? It is getting annoying and since our house is for sale I would like to get rid of them sooner rather than later.

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Posted: Feb 15 2012 at 10:49am \| IP Logged

I would try Terro again, maybe at several locations. Sometimes it takes several days for it to work. We have always had good results with it.

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Posted: Feb 16 2012 at 8:07pm \| IP Logged

We're having the same problem! It's been sooo warm and wet this winter that I guess the ants think its spring and are flooded out of their home... We've always had success with "Grants kills Ants" in the past. They're metal stakes with the insecticide in a little round disk that can be placed in doors or out. It's not working this time, though. I'll have to try Terro... Let me know if you ahve any success.

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Posted: Feb 29 2012 at 12:50pm \| IP Logged

Well, we left the Terro behind a piece of furniture where the ants were entering the room and it seemed like their numbers were decreasing tremendously. Then yesterday we noticed a huge resurgence and now the ants are lively and no longer sluggish

Dh added more Terro to what was already out and we had one of those "flower" ant bait thingies laying around so he stuck one of those there too. Well, they are having a field day with that flower thing, so maybe that together with more Terro will take care of the problem. This has been going on for well over a month...ARGH!

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Posted: Feb 29 2012 at 12:59pm \| IP Logged

I don't have the problem now, but I do use the "flower" ant baits and Terro, but the latter is hard because I don't really have any place that isn't in the open...so it's an invitation to touch.

During the summer I finally got them under control, and then started thinking my ant baits were useless...so I threw them away. The ants came back, so they were working.

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Posted: March 01 2012 at 8:49am \| IP Logged

I spoke too soon. Our big rain yesterday just brought in the tiny ants. My little one is one a spree to finding and killing.

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Posted: March 01 2012 at 8:59pm \| IP Logged

we caulked all the cracks in our foundation and that got rid of our ants. good luck- it is so frustrating!

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Posted: March 19 2012 at 1:32pm \| IP Logged

Well, in the end, it seems that the flower thingies really did the trick. It has been at least a week and I have only seen a single ant (and who knows with this weather and the kids outside all the time they could have brought it in).

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