Keeping one step ahead of the ants

Last week I discovered ants were returning to my kitchen. After doing some observing of their movements I realized where they had to be coming from: A slight opening between a wall and the counter backsplash.

Caulk to the rescue!

Couple follow-ups

Today we're having weather that is more normal (as opposed to yesterday's weather) for this time of year: Hot, and huge thunderhead clouds forming only over the area's mountains and mostly likely raining only over those mountains.

The ants I wrote about earlier are still coming, but (at least so far) only in very, very small numbers. I'm also seeing really small numbers of them in my kitchen, despite my caulking off of an access point in the kitchen last year. Obviously they found somewhere else they could get in.

Ants (Not in the pants)

Starting to see ants in my bathroom. That's irritating, but not entirely surprising. Just like the last time they first appeared San Diego has not had any rain in quite some time and the weather is getting hot.

I'd like to seal off their access point, of course. During the last bouts of ant invasions, I was able to do just that in my kitchen, but I have yet to find an access point in the bathroom. Will keep trying to do so. In the meantime I've broken out my container of Ortho Home Defense Indoor Insect Killer.