A few worker ants on your kitchen counter usually point to a colony of thousands nearby. Quick sprays only kill visible workers without reaching the queen. Use our ant guides to identify species like odorous house ants and carpenter ants, then apply slow-acting sweet and protein baits that workers carry back to destroy the nest.
The first time I dealt with odorous house ants, I didn’t spot them. I smelled them. I’d wiped one off the kitchen counter and caught a whiff of something like rotten coconut crossed with old blue cheese. That smell is the giveaway, and it’s where the name comes from. If you’ve got a thin line…
I once inspected a home where the owner had been sweeping up the same small pile of “sawdust” near her kitchen window for six months. She thought it was leftover debris from a home repair. It was carpenter ant frass, and by the time I arrived, two wall studs behind that window had been almost…
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