Why are they coming for me??

[bearkey22]

Ants!

All of a sudden, swarms of ants are appearing all over the lounge carpet.

Why?? Where from?

I know everyone will say 'food' and we do live with a toddler who likes to throw her food about, but we've just hired a rug doctor to clean the carpet to get rid of the worst of it. The carpet has never been cleaner, but now the ants come!

Anyone experienced this and got to the source?

I know what you need! There is something called antstop bait station. You can get them from B&Q or from Amazon. They are little black plastic desks that contain poison and you put one in each room. They are miracle workers.

Thanks @determinedtomakethiswork - are they safe to have around kids and pets do you know?

I'd just really like to know why they've appeared suddenly!

They are looking for water.

Please don't poison them. If they aren't infesting your food stores, please just search for their access point and block it.

We had an issue a while ago with ants coming in after DC had left some icing from a cake on the worktop all day (and dropped a bit by the door). Came home to find loads of ants.
Hoovered them up and put them outside in the compost bin, cleared up the icing, wiped down the worktop with white vinegar as thats supposed to remove or disrupt the scent trail they leave.
They did come in for a few more days, presumably after the icing they'd previously found. We traced their entry points and blocked them and haven't had any more issues.

Poor ickle ants wanting to infest your house, steal your food and bite your toddler. This is peak MN. 🤣

OP I use ant spray from the supermarket and I spray it across the threshold of any external doorways as well as any other potential access points, it seems to repel them and unlike ant powder or other similar things, it dries so it isn't an issue for kids and pets once it's dry. It's also good to follow the line of ants to work out where they've come from and block it up with sealant if possible because if they can get in, other things can, too, and the last thing you want is a slug explosion come winter.

@ifyouleavehernow

Because they are living creatures and part of our ecosystem.

Knee-jerk killing of other species is immoral.

OP if you ever see one ant inside, kill it. Don't think ah it's just one ant and give it no further thoughts. If you do, it'll go back and tell all it's mates about this amazing new place it'd found and how to get inside. I don't like killing things but I like my home infested even less. If you kill the solitary scout you don't have to deal with the army