Ants

[Hillcountry]

Coincidentally, right after this post was made, that night I found a pile of “leavings” from some type of critter in our new bathroom (in the existing house but abutting our new bedroom addition). We have a log home and ordered a “kit” from the original company and built a 1st floor master suite.
Anyway, not knowing what the hell was making that mess, I had my wife pick up some Terro Liquid (hoping it might be the big black ants we were seeing outside) when she did her shopping the next morning.
Well, I cut the little cardboard squares (thanks Dan!) and placed them with a drop of the liquid along the baseboards in the area where the “leavings” were.
Later that day, sure enough the black bastards were in a feeding frenzy on the Terro Liquid drops. They would be feeding as I replenished the drops every couple hours...overnight, he next day there were still ants feeding on the stuff but by the end of the 2nd day their numbers were reduced to a few ants (and staggering around like they were “sick”
By the third day, one dead ant is visible in a remaining drop of liquid. The colony has been wiped out!
I also went around the outside foundation with some Ortho Home Defense just to be thorough. I’m sold on the Terro Liquid!