In my childhood home, we had mice, but we knew where they came from - two of my brother's pet mice had escaped and occasionally emerged to sit beneath the TV set and mock us.
We now (in Georgia, 1920s house) have both roaches and ants. Previously when I've had ants I would set out ant baits and that would solve the problem very quickly. Here the ants seem to laugh at ant baits. The roaches are the giant 2-inch variety. We've been told that if you treat for roaches, you get ants, and if you treat for ants, it does nothing to stop roaches. Since we had a negative experience with roach treatments at our old house (left poison debris everywhere despite being told we had small children) for now we're just dealing. I want to look into boric acid for the ants, as I am told it's non-toxic to humans and I think we've found where they are getting into the house.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2008-08-18 02:35 pm (UTC)We now (in Georgia, 1920s house) have both roaches and ants. Previously when I've had ants I would set out ant baits and that would solve the problem very quickly. Here the ants seem to laugh at ant baits. The roaches are the giant 2-inch variety. We've been told that if you treat for roaches, you get ants, and if you treat for ants, it does nothing to stop roaches. Since we had a negative experience with roach treatments at our old house (left poison debris everywhere despite being told we had small children) for now we're just dealing. I want to look into boric acid for the ants, as I am told it's non-toxic to humans and I think we've found where they are getting into the house.