"Lin" > wrote in message
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> Grant's Ant Stakes. The BEST.
>
> Last year was particularly bad with the little sugar ants -- they were
> everywhere. We had a pest service spraying outside once a month and part
> of the service was that they could come inside and spray. I didn't want
> the pesticides in the house because of the pets and having all the food
> stuff to consider. After consulting with friends, found that they were
> absolutely right about the Grant's Ant Stakes. Sometimes you have to use a
> pin-head worth of honey to attract them into the stake, but after that
> they are gone. I used two packs of stakes since our house has a lot of
> square footage and wanted to put them outside as well. We have been ant
> free now for six months or so. Oh, and we gave up the pest service. I
> haven't had to replace the stakes, though they do recommend replacing them
> after two to three months.

I use some sort of ant stakes outside and I haven't had to use anything
inside in a couple of years. Outside, though, my house seems to be built on
top of an anthill. This summer especially. They were under everything and
if I left anything outside like even the lawnmower, they made themselves at
home pretty quickly. The garden out front seems to attract them the most
and I was out there every other day with ant spray spraying the trails of
them. They are so gross. Trails thick with ants all carrying eggs. I
finally put out DE all over their trails and they stopped taking over my
garden. Garden looked like hell for a while, but they never came inside the
house. Well, maybe a couple made their way in through the kitchen window,
but when I found and killed them there were never followers.