My sister and I moved into an off campus apartment when we started university last fall. Around Thanksgiving, we started seeing these tiny little ants in the kitchen and a few in our bathrooms. We called the front office and had them come and spray for ants and bugs. They said to give it 10 days to work. We did, and they were still there. We bought Raid Double Control Ant Baits and placed one under the sink, one in the corner of the counters where we see them the most, and one in each of our bathrooms. About a week later, we asked them to come spray again.
They came a sprayed just before we left for Christmas break. We super cleaned our apartment, especially well where we kept seeing the ants. Then we left and the apartment was empty for a month. We came back in January and there weren’t very many ants at first. Within two days, there were the same amount as before. I’m not sure if we just didn’t see them at first, or if they came back because we did.
I don’t even know what kinds of ants they are. My mom says piss ants. My friend said sugar ants. The maintenance man who sprayed said ghost ants. Only half the time can you feel them crawling on you if one gets on your arm or something. They are itty bitty tiny things, black as far as I can tell. They don’t go for our food at all: not cereal or chocolate. But they attack dirty plates in the sink, the dishwasher, the clean and empty sink, and pizza we leave out if we order delivery. They haven’t bitten us either.
Every day we’re killing dozens of ants with paper towels, bits of paper, body spray, cleaners, water, our own hands and pretty much anything else we can think to use at the moment as we see them. Now we’re seeing them on our desks and behind the couch.
How can we get rid of these ants? If the spray our apartment complex uses and Raid don’t work, and keeping the place clean isn’t helping any? And what kinds of ants are they?
Help!
