Photo Album: Kitchen Full of Odorous House Ants in Ocean Township, NJ

A Long Trail of Ants

While inspecting the kitchen, I noticed a long trail of ants leading from the sink to the kitchen pantry.

They Were Odorous House Ants

Upon close inspection, I realized they were odorous house ants. Odorous house ants are those tiny, smelly ants, that emit a rotten coconut smell when they're crushed or startled.

Found Them All Over the Kitchen

They were all over the sink, pantries, and inside the sugar bowl. I told the owner that everything in the pantries must be removed and cleaned and any perishable items must be disposed of.

Three Different Applications

For treatment, I applied an ant gel bait along the cracks and crevices of the pantry, applied a liquid residual along the baseboards in the kitchen, the dining room, and along the exterior of the home, and flushed the ants out of hiding with a residual aerosol. The aerosol will also exterminate the ants almost immediately.

Rapid Extermination of Ants

Once the ants come in contact with the liquid residual or the gel bait, they will bring those applications back to their nest and share them among one another, unknowingly spreading the treatments throughout their colony. A short while later, the odorous house ants are eliminated!