RE: The Old Dog Reports: The Attack Begins Again! Announcing a 100 Steem Bounty!

Make a sound like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, all the while leading them out of town like a lunchtime pied-piper. Often works for me...

I assume these are small sugar ants. I've gotten rid of them by vacuuming them up as you do, then putting out the liquid ant traps by Grants, and then continuing to vacuum whenever they "bunch up" (a highly scientific term of antology). By doing this many times (yes, a pain, but so are they when all over the counter, etc), you soon get ahead of them and they do tend to disappear after a bit. I think you get ahead of them to the point the colony collapses.

Unfortunately, the old Terro used to work great, but I heard someone drank a bunch of it and now it's less lethal to humans, and therefor also to them. I don't do it, but I've heard enticing them with something like honey or Gatorade on the area the trap goes first, will get them excited to enter the trap when you put it down. Never done this, seems to me they just go in on their own. Very self directed little things.

I do know that a water source, like the sink with wet sides, etc, is another area they like. When the dry season comes, they die off/leave/march south.

They LOVE to get in the cordless phone or answering machines, etc for some reason. Think it's the Electromagnetics or something. I'm no antologist, but as long as said with authority, I sound good. But recently I had a nest in the phone base, I just vacucumed them continuously, then put out a trap, and they are now gone. Otherwise, back to the sandwich piper it is...