One of the seemingly inescapable facts of life in the Southern California chaparral country is ants — lots and lots of ants, of quite a few species. We have Argentinian ants, of course — but also several species of “little black ants” that love to invade our house, several carpenter ants, and worst of all the fire ants.
For years we’ve tried just about evertything from Home Depot to repel or kill the ants, with minimal success. We’ve used the Antimite service for years, with only modest success — and all they do is treat our foundation to keep ants out of the house (think about it — it’s not in their best interest to kill off the ant colonies!). But after doing some research on the web I discovered something claimed to be very effective and quite safe: cypermethrin, 40%, in wettable powder form.
And it works. Not just kinda-sorta works — I mean that the ant colonies I treated are dead. As in bazillions of curled up ants with all six legs in the air. As in zero activity around the colony’s entrances.
Oh. My. Gosh.
The cheapest place I found it was here, with three different brands: Demon WP, Cynoff WP, and Cyper WP. The latter was the cheapest; it’s what I got and it works fabulously.
