Posting this here since I don't wanna make a new thread. Small ants tend to come inside during the summer months and store bought bait does the trick, and since I saw them a few days ago I put new bait out. I woke up this morning and saw these gargantuan motherfuckers swarming them. Thankfully my cat doesn't go near this particular area so I drenched it in raid for the time being and opened up the window to let it air out. Reckon these are carpenter ants? I've never seen huge ones like this inside before. Some pressure washing was done to the exterior of my house recently so that's probably what got both colonies riled up.

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I think the danger comes from pets accidentally ingesting it. Even if it isn't directly fed to them, it might be applied in areas where they'll walk/potentially roll in and lick it off their paws later. What I do is make sure my pets aren't anywhere near the application area, let it sit for a while, then wipe the area down with water later to dilute it. If it needs to sit for a long time then I'll block the area off. Even though I used it for this situation, I really don't like using raid because the smell is so strong - if it's strong for me then it's definitely worse for pets. Diatomaceous earth seems like a good bug killer option depending on what bug exactly is in your house.