Just a quick note to share with anyone with ant invasions due to the cold weather or rains. Dealing with ants when you have small children or pets can be more challenging as you don't want to leave out ant baits or any poisons where the kids or pets might reach. You also don't want to use spray poisons. Two things that have worked for me are: dish soap and cinnamon.
With the dish soap, put a few drops in clean spray bottle (I use Dawn), add water to fill bottle and gentle swirl to mix. Use that to spray on the ants wherever you see them. The soap in the water kills the ant or at least stops them in their tracks so that you can wipe them away with a paper towel. (You can feel good about the fact that you are also cleaning the soap at the same time.) The soap also wipes out the scent trail that ants leave behind them that tell their fellow ants where to follow.
With the cinnamon, sprinkle liberally at any entry points if you can discover where the ants are entering your home. Within a day, all the ants will stop coming in. The bonus is that cinnamon smells great, much better than any ant spray. Most importantly, cinnamon is safe to use around pets and kids. Even if they do taste the stuff, at least it's not poisonous.
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