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Originally Posted by masraum View Post
Last year when we were still in our apt, I noticed in the spring that the various sidewalks around the apt complex seemed to always be host to "crazy ants" (they are a type of ant). I'd seen and heard of them before, but they were everywhere which I hadn't experienced. We got a bunch of rain, and after the rain, I started to notice ants in our apt (on the 5th floor). I got some of the ant bait where you put a clear drop of thick fluid down where the ants seem to hang out, and that gets them. I'd put a few drops in a few spots and within a day or two, the ants would go away. They'd be gone for a few days or a week or two. They'd come back and I'd put more drops down. I think I had to put drops down 5-10 times over the course of a few months, but then they stopped coming back. I feel like it had to do with frequent rains driving the ants to try to avoid the wet environment. Of course, in Cali, that's probably not an issue.
crazy ants!!

my first encounter was in my bathroom. just sitting there peacefully...err. reading?..i would see the trickle of ants. i think they were looking for water. i used Terro on that batch and it took two weeks for them to go away. i just kept refilling the baits. i finally simply clear silicone filled the cracks and i haven't seen them since. there is probably Ant-Palozza in my crawl space. hahah.
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