I have had that issue while cooking & baking then had to scrub my kitchen because I freaked myself out about killing the ants with spray
Thanks for the explanation. If you owned a pest control company in Florida, you had your work cut out for you. I lived there for a while and I never saw such big bugs in my life. 
Of course, here in Missouri we have the privilege of having chiggers that we can't see.
Diane
BUTTERCREAM! that's what brings ants in your home. I had them too. Then I started washing everything with bleach. I mopped the floor with a little bleach in the water and started using Dawn dish detergent with bleach for all and anything that had buttercream in it. Now, no more ants.
I live in South Florida and my pest man baits my house monthly for sugar ants. He uses a mixture of Borax (found in the laundry aisle), sugar and water to make a thick syrup. It has the consistency of loose Karo Syrup. He says it's very safe since he knows I have kids and dogs.
Simply pour about 1/2 to 1 teaspoon onto paper and lay in the area where there are ants. They eat it and die. He says you can put the stuff right on the counter but it dries dark brown, sticky and sometimes annoying to remove. I no longer have any ants since he's been servicing my house for over a year now but he still puts the bait down for me.
Hope this helps.
I use boric acid and sugar too. The only difference is I make a light dough of flour, sugar, boric acid and water. Roll it into small balls, and leave to dry. Place these wherever you normally see ants.
I read somewhere, that not only do the ants feed on it and die, but that they feed the mixture to the queen-ant, wherever she is, and she dies too. So eventually the entire colony will die out.
I use this in my garden too, and it really works.
Karen
The pi$$ ants cracked me up. We used get these itty bitty teeny weeny goldish colored ants that crawled real slow and they looked like dust. they were so tiny that they could get into the brand new bags of cereal that had never even been opened! They could fit under screwed on caps!! And twice my husband has eaten them. Once he was snackingon some Cheese-its and all of a sudden he jumps up yelling Gosh darn it!! (and he really did say GOSH darn cuz he won't say God even if it's with a little "g" 
) The bag was full of them and he didn't notice until he saw one crawling on his hand...YUCK!! Once I was scrambling some eggs and when I sat down to eat them I thought "I don't remember putting pepper in my eggs..." AAAAGHHH!! 
Those ant really do pi$$ you off! Ever since we had the house fumigated for termites they have never come back...YET!!!
Yes, these ants do pi$$ a person off. I remember when I was a kid (many years ago) we always said, "There's some stepants, pi$$ on them." Just a dumb thing we always said and every one of these posts made me think of that.
I have a very deep hatred of black walnuts because I think they smell like pi$$ ants smell when you smash them. My mom always said I was crazy. I will spit out a piece of cake or bread or whatever if it has black walnuts in it.
I never understand it but I get them in my bathtub in the Spring, every year. I understand they are coming after water but good grief, there's nothing there for them to eat. I put boric acid on my kitchen window sill and under my kitchen sink and that stops them there.
Just had to put in my two cents........
Diane
Ick! I feel for you! We had ants a couple months ago. They must have been festering and then just exploded in the corner of our ceiling. I was FREAKING out! I hate bugs! We got an exterminator out here and he placed bait out. Now I know what to look for to prevent it from happening again.
ANTS!!! grrrrr this friend of mine gave me some pretty cheap advise about ants. If they are coming from the outside go around your entire house pour comet all around that kills ants. I have no idea what is in comet but it works. I do it every year as the ants are about to start. Hope this helps.
MC
edited....ps its safe around pets...I dont have children so that part Im unsure of.
Gosh, I'm glad I found this thread to know it's not just me! They were terrible this year, weren't they? The kids thought I was the Wicked Witch of the West because I'd just go off if I found half a potato chip that had missed the trash can! That itty bitty chip will attract 20 million ants! We used the borax and the Torro. And I had to laugh at the above comment on using Windex! That was my first arm of defense when I saw an ant, too!
The ant hills are sometimes hard to find. 20+ years ago I had an ant problem and went to the exterminator, who gave me a "poison" to pour down the ant hill. Well, I was envisioning those little ant hills you see on the sidewalk and wondered how in the heck I'd see those! We walked around the house and I didnt' see one. The next day, I happened to look out my kitchen window and right there hidden in the grass was a patch of sand - an ant hill - spread out over about 4-5 feet!!!!! holy moly, how'd we miss that on the walk around?
The exterminator told us to spray this solution on our basement walls before we poured it down the ant hill because the ants would try to escape and they'd go in the basement. We'd have to leave the house for a while because the spray fumes were really toxic. Well dumb-a$$ husband (who is now the EX husband, might I add!) poured it down the ant hill first, then mosey'd to the basement to spray. By the time he walked to the basement, there was a black waterfall of ants coming into our house! Oh. My. God. He sprayed that wall like he was a fireman putting out a fire.
I don't remember what the poison was, but it worked!!!
So this year, I asked DH to look for an ant hill. He walked around the house and said he didn't see one. I walked to the corner of the garage, looked down and said "here it is". (Big sigh! What would they do without us?)
...Borax has soap and other crud in it. You want plain boric acid powder. Insects have an exoskelton (outer shell), and the boric acid eats through it so they dehydrate.
This is off-topic, but it kills fleas, too.
Cheers, from
SwampWitch
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