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Ants coming up from carpet.
Ants are being attracted to your apartment because there is a strong smell of food coming from it they are looking for food.
Finding an ant infestation under carpet is not a small thing after all you can t simply pull up your whole carpet to get rid of them.
The best thing to do is to go outside find the source that you are dealing with.
I know i was.
The day after vacuuming my carpet there were dozens of carpenter ants inside the carpet dying being eaten by their kin or freely wandering around.
Don t worry you don t need those expensive gimmicky models that you see on tv just a cheap one will work just as well.
But gel formulations which come in squeezable or syringe type tubes are even more.
For a long term solution find out why the ants are coming in from outdoors and hitting your carpet.
They were just regular sized black ants less than 1 4 long not sure exactly how big they all had wings and when i saw them they were either dead or dying.
Sprinkle boric acid powder all over the carpet and allow to remain on the carpet for one hour then vaccuum.
Make sure there is no accidental stash anywhere.
There is a football sized lump under the carpet.
Last year i noticed that a lot of dead ants were turning up on my living room windowsill and the floor in front of the window.
Could it be a colony that the vacuuming shook up.
The easiest way to kill ants that are running around your home like rampaging orcs is to suck them up with a vacuum cleaner.
The same can t be said of carpenter ants which feed on rotten or damp wood potentially damaging windows doors or even structural framing in the process carpenter ants are about 1 4 to 1.
Ants will only go where there are resources.
You can buy slow acting pesticide for ants in bait stations enclosed in plastic a handy mess free solution.
Ants on the carpet is it is a weird situation because you don t necessarily need to treat the actual carpet.
Proceed to stalk your house with it and attack any unsuspecting ants you see doing their daily errands.
So we know that this customer is dealing with ants that randomly come up here.
Is there food left out anywhere.
