[Dirtbox]

Hey there,
I have an apartment on the seventh floor in a city in the south of Sweden. For the past 2 month I've been plagued by insects in my kitchen. Physically the insects look exactly like ants, although a little bit smaller than the typical ant. They're about 2 to 3 millimeters in length, their bodies almost transparent, and the last segment (the one furthest from the head) is striped, across the body. The color is a redish kind of yellow.
I've been finding individual bugs all over the kitchen, and when leaving out something with scraps of food on also in greater numbers. Once I lifted a bottle cap and there where an entire group of perhaps 20 of them under there, and just the other day as I picked up a used fork I found a fork-shaped collection of them underneath.
I'm wondering if this actually is ants, or what else they might be. I haven't found them in flour or anything like dry that, just roaming where there is scraps of food left.

Help me please, should I call the exterminators?

/Fredrik

[J_9]

Fredrik,

Let me suggest that before you call an exterminator that you thoroughly clean your kitchen and keep it clean.

You can exterminate all you wish, but if you continue to leave these tiny morsels out for the insects, they will come back.

Cleanliness is the key here. If you don't provide their "treats" they will probably not come into your kitchen and seek their food elsewhere.

If keeping the kitchen clean does not work, then it may be time to call an exterminator.