We have an ant problem at my apartment. Between being the spring, and the apartment complex being lazy in their foundation/floorboards, we have a ton of ants that are an annoyance.

We got some of the terro liquid ant killer. The stuff you put a few droplets on a piece of paper and they feed on it.

Soon as I put one down, it was like the 24th of December. It was chaos. There were more ants coming out of the woodwork than I even know existed. This happened a few weeks ago when the complex brought in their own routine exterminators. It worked very well, but now they are back. There are so many ants, that they are consuming even large amounts of this stuff.

Right now, every time one of the pads gets low, I have just been adding another blob to a pad next to it. (I usually put like 7-8 drops per pad. Maybe the size of a dime.) My fear is, if they make it through the entire blob, they will just start to wander around my kitchen. While it is gross to see this many at a time, they are ALL in like an 8in perimeter from the traps. Very controlled.

Do you just keep adding more and more as they consume it? Do you try to space it out? My thought process is if you keep them all “fed”, that you have better chances at getting more of it to the nest to kill the queen. Is this true? Is there any downside to keeping their poisoned food supply topped off?