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Was coming here to post about seeing black ants coming into my kitchen from my back patio door, and then I saw this good post-Motronic posted:Yes, super easy, very much non-toxic to pretty much anything other than ants. Terro. It's borax and sugar water. So I guess I'll be going out to buy some of these tomorrow. Could I place them just outside my back door if I want to keep the ants out, or will that attract other types of bugs?
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Motronic posted:You'll want to place them along the existing ant trails. I don't think I've ever seen an issue with them attracting other bugs but I've never actually tried putting them outside. I typically perimeter spray so that wouldn't be effective/necessary. I haven't seen (found?) a clear trail yet, I've just seen them sniffing around in the back door that leads into the kitchen and every once in a while I'll see one on a countertop. I was going to just lay one trap by the door and see what that does.
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Last night I thought I saw something the approximate size, shape, and color of a mouse dart across my kitchen and go under my stove. I couldn't get a visual on it once it went under the stove, and this morning I have so far not found any evidence of a little mouse party that happened overnight. Is there anything I can do to test whether or not there's actually a mouse now living in my kitchen/house?
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Sep 13, 2023 14:43
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SpartanIvy posted:If it was me I'd put some glue traps under the stove to see if you catch anything over night. Make sure pets and kids can't reach them. I did put down a couple of glue traps last night, but it's a pretty wide space under the stove so a mouse could have just gone around them if it really wanted to. Any other signs I could look for? Footprints, poop, holes being eaten into things?
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Sep 13, 2023 20:14
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SpartanIvy posted:I am personally invested in your story because a decade ago I was renting an apartment with friends and I thought I saw a mouse and they said I was crazy until later one of them screamed and it ran out of their room. We put out a baited trap but never caught it or saw it again. It must have left the way it came in. Good news then, I just saw the bastard cutting back across my kitchen from under the stove to the island...where it vanished again  How well can these guys climb and/or squish themselves into tight spaces, because I don't really know where it could have gone short of doubling back under the stove when I wasn't looking.
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Eat the peanut butter you little fucker  Exterminator coming in later this week.
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