For some reason over the past week and a half, we've been inundated with ants.
We have never had any issues with ants in the whole time we've lived here (over a year), except after we moved in we noticed tiny little ants coming out from cracks in the walls. We haven't noticed these for over 9 months though.
These current ants are the normal sized ones, and we first noticed them last Thursday (over a week ago) when the Indy car race first began (qualifying or something) and the noise of the cars was quite loud (we're about 10 minutes away from the track). Maybe it caused vibrations in the ground that resulted in the ants coming up or something.
They weren't too bad, and only seemed to appear from about 2pm or so and by 5pm they'd gone.
They also didn't seem quite as bad this past week, except whenever we come home and walk up the path, there are SO many of them outside on that path leading up to the front door of our building. There are also some inside the stairwell / foyer and they're coming in underneath our front door that way, and also under the tracks of our balcony sliding doors. I came home today and the carpet was full of ants!!! It was horrible! They somehow get in from the balcony even when the screen door and glass doors are shut and locked. There is obviously some gap running underneath they can squeeze through but we can't see it.
There are so many ants, they were in the kitchen, in the hallway and even near the study. I thought they didn't like carpet, but they've managed to come pretty damn dar inside our house on the carpet!! There's no food or anything for them and they're not crowding anywhere in particular, they're just HERE. All sort of random.
We can't really spray them cause we've got 2 cats and the spray hurts their eyes. They hate it. It also doesn't work. We've tried spraying in a line at our balcony door and the front door but they just come back the next day when we're not home and by the time we come home, they're inside.
How do you get rid of ants!? I don't know why there are so many and why they insist on coming in here. It's horrible. The cats don't like them either. They get on their paws and the cats freak out a bit. lol.
We can't use ant sand or any of that stuff cause of the cats. We can't afford to put the cats in a cattery for a night to bomb the place, and even if we did, they'd just come back anyway. HELP!?!?