I don't care what anybody says I'm still not washing dishes before putting them in the dishwasher--if I do that I may as well throw out my dishwasher and save the electricity! We have ants really bad here and funny thing is they are not in my kitchen--they invaded the living room! When I sprayed and left ant baits around in there, they just crawled up the side of the house into the second story bedroom :evil: I fight this battle each and every year. One year we had hoardes of carpenter ants--now that was a scary sight! What I do now is put baits in all windows and doors (they were marching right into my front door) and it took about a week but soon they were gone!