Ants in my pants!

[imlad.livejournal.com]

Well, not quite :-) But in my kitchen. It appears that we have a bit of an ant infestation in our house. It's those little "honey" ants. K fought them valiantly with traps and all manner of ant destroying implements. So while we no longer have columns of ants in our bathroom and kitchen, they are still around, and nothing we do seems to work. My suspicion is that the source is outside the apartment, and destroying them here (even with the approach of having them carry various nasty poisons back to their nest) will not do the trick. Has anyone in the area had similar experiences? My feeling is that if the source is outside of my apartment, the landlord should be dealing with that - has anyone had to deal with this kind of situation?

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[somertricky.livejournal.com]

When using the strategy of having the ants carry nasty stuff back to their lodgings, sometimes a double dose of patience is called for. We'd get black ants attacking us from front and rear, so we tossed out way too many traps at each entry point (and even a couple outside on each of the porches, right outside the doors), three or four at a time. The thru traffic was cut to a trickle in a couple of days, but we'd see a straggler every couple of days for damn close to a month.

Black pepper along the perimeter sounds good; I was thinking along the lines of cayenne myself. Otherwise the landlord (or his agents) will probably spray particularly noxious liquid around the perimeter of your house, which may not be worth it.