To spray indoir ant spray in a bedroom

[Flamingoknees]

For a few days we've been getting flying ants in a bedroom and the study next door to it. Can't work out how they are getting in. Rooms are crumb free. Keep finding an odd one on the floor and a couole on the window. My DS is not impressed (neither am I, but he's scared). DP has his head in the sand. There's loads of ants outside (I've sprayed). Windows kept closed. Would you spray in a bedroom?,

No, just leave the poor things alone - sick to death of Homo sapiens thinking that every living thing is a pest which has to be destroyed - if it's not ants it is spiders, wasps, mice or some other relatively harmless ( and useful) living thing, all of which were here long before we were, and, hopefully will still be around long after we have wiped ourselves out!

I completely agree with @Hedgesfullofbirds Leave the insects alone and let them be. They're not harming you in any way. Can't believe you, your partner and son are so worried about a few tiny insects.

I presume neither of you have experienced your home being full of
ants?That may change. It's the first time I've sprayed outside, despite them invading the kitchen for the past 10 years. I've just managed it from the inside. My colleague has experienced ants being unchecked for a few weeks - they were in her kettle, toaster, food cupboards. The family room, in my old work place, was a "moving carpet" one day when I opened the door. They were in everything and on every surface. Activities had to be cancelled.
I can't work out how these flying ants (which are much bigger) are getting into these 2 rooms, and I'm going away soon. I don't want to come home to a big problem, but at the same time, I'm very anti use of chemicals, hence why I'm dithering.

The odd one on the floor and a couple on the windows?

That’s hardly an infestation. Leave them alone and show your DS that there’s nothing to worry about.

I would try citronella essential oil. Dab some onto cotton wool and place it where they're coming in, the smell should hopefully deter them. Also check for any tiny gaps they may be getting in through and use wall filler/window sealant to close them off.

As my user name suggests I share my home and garden with many living things - bats in the roof space, a shrew, which lives in the kitchen, and, being insectivorous, keeps the woodlice and silverfish at bay, a mouse which comes out into the living room for biscuit crumbs every evening, spiders galore and, yes, ants too. All are welcome to share my living space, it is their home too, perhaps more so, since they were here first and it is humans who are a pest and impinge on animals, not the other way around. Who wants to live in a sanitised, hermetically sealed box with no consideration for other living things?

What good do you think spraying outside will do? You will have killed lots of insects that were not bothering you at all and might even have been eating the ants. Honestly, flying ants fly for a few days, leave them alone. Insects are being wiped out and we literally can’t live without them.