Ants!
 

It is very wet outside here in Northern California...so we have these little black/brown ants that are coming in where it is warm.

Does anyone have suggestions for a humane practice for deterring them from my bedroom? I never have food in here. They're just investigating a lot of things. There's so many I can't avoid killing some just by moving, stepping etc.

Ants are clean - meaning they do not enter areas where there is human waste the way cockroaches do - so I don't mind sharing my space. There here whether I see them or not. But I would like for them to move on if that is all possible.

Ideas?

Hi GR
Try an equal parts corn starch and corn meal mixture around the exterior of the house. They don't cross it for some reason. ???? :confused:

It's worked every time I have used it in every location. Just a thin unbroken line will keep them out.
BE

Hi Gentle Rick. I've had some luck w/ cinnamon sticks and cloves - they don't like either. Also, if you can find where they are coming in, spraying vinegar in those areas helps (but don't spray the ants w/ it - they will suffocate). Good luck and Happy New Year.

Great advice. I will remember this for future reference.
I had a horrible time with ants in CA and yes, they came in the bedroom, and I did not have this good advice... so I took a bowl and put some sugar in there and stuck it in the other room. Everyone was happy and in the morning with gloves on I put the bowl outside. We had a little system going on.

So far I have been lucky in Vegas...no ants and for all of us with fur babies a dream come true....no fleas!! :D