Ant attack

The certainties in life are death, taxes and having ants in our house every summer. They are mostly in our kitchen and bathrooms. If you leave a dish in the sink or on the countertop that is not "scrubbed" within 15-30 minutes, it's game over. Heck even if it is scrubbed they will still come. What we've had to do is soak our dishes in soap immediately after we were done eating. The kitchen trash cannot be left unfortified. What that means is that we've had to put a mini cardboard box (ie costco carryout boxes) laced with ant spray and place it underneath the trash container. During the really hot days, I've found that the ants will still infest the kitchen trash despite the ant spray around it.

Those Ortho house perimeter sprays have not worked out really well. I suspect as the house has settled, new cracks have emerged in the foundation or underneath the house and the ants have started to come from underneath and not just from the outside. Spot spraying the cracks where the ants come in with Hot Shots seems to work best but I've had to take extra care as to not spray on areas exposed to food or touch. And how to remove the corpses or the stragglers? Vacuum baby...the Dyson-ator :-)