Invasion of the Ants: The Sequel

About this time last year, in the worst heat spell of the summer, our air conditioning broke. You might be wondering what that has to do with ants. Well, since we had a 2 year old and a 6 week old baby, we packed up and moved in with my parents for 2 weeks while our new unit was on order. One day, I ran by our house to get the mail, and I went in the kitchen only to find the counters crawling with ants. They were EVERYWHERE! Little did we know, that was just the beginning. We fought ants for three months or so until we had a hard freeze, and it got too cold. Every time we thought the ants were finally gone, we would find them somewhere else. We found them in the sunroom on Caleb's table, in the pantry, in the windowsill between the kitchen and sunroom (they were climbing up a crack), in the diaper pail (EEEEEEWWWWWWW!), in the kids' bathroom and pretty much anywhere that had food or water. Anyway, one day last week, I went in to the sunroom, and the floor was covered with toys (as usual). As I began to clean up, I noticed that the floor was moving. There were ants all over the floor. We traced the problem back to a crumb from Caleb's snack that had gotten under a small bookshelf. We vacuumed and got it all cleaned up. Then we waited until Saturday night, since we were going to be gone all day Sunday, and put out Terro. Terro is my friend. You put some of it out on a piece of cardboard near where you found the ants. At first they swarm, as evidenced by the picture, but then they take the poison back to their colony and all die. Here's hoping that this will be the end of them, and we won't be fighting this battle again all summer.