I woke up this morning, got out of bed, went to my desk, and saw that there were ants. EVERYWHERE. They were crawling up the side, too, I noticed. So, I went and killed all that I saw with disinfectant wipes. :P

But then, they keep coming back in like, two's or three's. It's so gross! I hate the thought of tons of ants in my room somewhere. But, there's one catch. My desk, and my entire room at that, is food-free. So I have no idea where the little shits are coming from, especially since my mom just sprayed the entire perimeter of my room with some pest control stuff, since we've seen ants on the baseboards before. D:

But, if the ants are coming from where I think they are, it's right behind my guinea pigs' cage, therefore, I'm worried there cage might have ants in it. :(

Help, guys?

Find where they are coming from and put an ant trap/killer spray where they are coming in.

My dad's house used to have ants everywhere, but my dad found that they were coming in through the basement window so he put some kind of weird trap outside the crack and after a while there were no more ants!

Oh noes!!

I literally JUST had this problem, not even a week ago. I bought Raid, and these ant traps that will kill the ant colonies.

But take your guinea pig out, clean the cage but not with the ant spray or anything.

We have no guinea pig litter though! D: Mom's gonna run out and get some later, thank God.

We're gonna move the cage, clean it normally, spray the wall behind with ant spray stuff, and then put the cage back.

Oh, wow! That sounds horrible! I hate bugs...

Anywho, be careful with the bug killer around your guinea pig. Keep him out of the room for a while after you use it, or he might get sick.

I hope those evil little things DIE!!! Did I mention that I hate bugs?

Sprinkle corn meal around. The ants eat it, but they can't digest it, and they die. It's safe for critters like guinea pigs though. I had ants in my room last summer and I wouldn't sleep in there for a few days until they were gone because I was paranoid they'd get on me while I slept. I stayed in the guest room instead. We found a big nest right outside my window (ground level room) and put nasty bug-killing crap there and they all died. Normally, I'm totally live and let live, but when they invade my turf and mess with my life, they die, pure and simple.

Okay, we moved the piggers out of my room (in a laundry basket lol) and cleaned the cage out, then we put an ant trap near the corner of my desk next to the cage, and one by my bed, since they seem to like against the baseboard of my bed. ;^; We also sprayed every inch of a little ant trail we just discovered leading from the desk corner to the wall behind my bed. :o

Haven't seen any since. :D

lol piggers i hate ants

You have to kill the queen of their hill to kill them all. We bought these little pellet things for a giant red ant hill. Sprinkled some around the hill, and within a day's time they were pretty much all gone.

I hate ants. ): The segmented bodies creep me out.

But then I feel bad if I kill them. :(

Today (it's 11:14 now.) I was up at 2:30 in the morning. I go to change my dog's water dish before I go to sleep.

I hear a buzzing sound.

I look on the floor. There are 5+ bugs spinning in circles and crawling.

They were immediately squashed.

5:25 am:

I have killed roughly 50 flying ants. Give or take. The crawlspace above our apartment is apparently home to them and now they want out.

My dad lets the remaining out.

There are ants... that fly? :x

I would try this before you spray any raid. Black pepper also works. I think it's that time of year for ants to invade homes because I have them in my house too. And eww to the flying ants. I hate bugs. Esp those that fly

Put down a few ant trap things. They kill them in droves.

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Wow, that sounds pretty gross. I think the best course of action is to clean the cage, and your room as best as you can. And buy a couple of those ant traps. (:

urgh :( hope you get rid of them. We had an ant trail through the kitchen the other week :x but since they were all walking in line it was easy to find their entry. It was a crack in a windowsill, so we just mended that up and vacuumed every single bloody ant up.

Sometimes we keep the verandah door open during summer though and there's always tiny black sugar ants all over the place. I vacuum them up too, or they kill themselves (they walk into the dishwasher. I just turn it on ;))