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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tortoise Tom" data-source="post: 158113" data-attributes="member: 27883">Indoors in summer the ants are looking for water and somewhere to escape the heat. Terro ant baits work great. The hard part is you have to wait for an invasion, or make one by leaving some food out on the floor, and then put the bait station in their path and leave it alone. As hard as it is, don't kill any. What you have to understand is that even when there are 10,000 ants swarming the crumb in your kitchen, there are millions more underground. Killing the 10,000 does nothing. Instead allow the 10,000 to cary back the deadly bait back to the rest of the colony and wipe them all out. We had nothing but problems when we moved into this house. I think the whole hill we live on is one giant ant hill. We killed MILLIONS of them. It was a daily battle. More just kept coming every day. I sprayed inside, I sprayed outside, I did poison granules, and I paid to have professionals come spray. It did nothing to stem the tide. One pack of Terro trays wiped them all out. We saw zero ants for almost two years after that. Every once in a while a new group will find its way in. I put the Terro bait tray in their path and leave them alone to swarm it. Sometimes there are so many that they empty the whole tray. You want to smash them all and clean the whole area, but you have to leave them alone to deliver your deadly package. At first they'd swarm the baits for two days and I'd keep putting down new ones as they emptied each tray. Eventually, all that was left was an empty plastic bait tray and no other evidence that they'd ever been there.We had oriental Roches in the house where I grew up. I start a colony with them in a bin in my reptile room. Great tarantula food, but they have a bit of a skunky odor when kept indoors in quantity. Roach motels do a great job of catching them and removing them from the environment and the breeding population. Not having insecticides everywhere outside will also allow their natural predators to come in and control their numbers too. Its like rodent poison. You put out poison because you saw a rat. Rat eats the poison and then a hawk or owl eats the dying poisoned rat and dies too. Now you've removed a predator that would have eaten two or three rats a day every day all year long. The remaining rats can breed and go crazy because their predators in the area are all dead. You end up making a much bigger problem than you already had. Same with insecticidal sprays around your house.</blockquote>

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