Ants. How do you get rid of them?
Question:We have been plagued with them for years pesky little blighters. Any and all suggestions welcome. Try anything and everything to get rid.
Answers:
Ants in the nature are very important to plants, specially if you have a big beautiful garden with vegetables, fruits, etc.
At home try first to keep the kitchen always clean since they feed on crumbs, sugar powder in counters/floor, etc.
Keep the sugar/honey jar inside the fridge or nearby spices like garlic, peppers.
Close all cookies, cereal, etc, wrappings tight.
Use pesticides as a last resource, they damage the environment and us and make the chemical industry richer.
I was raised in a place where insects are abundant, by experience I can tell you that besides scorpions and few spiders, all flying insects and critters are harmless.
Some bite, but nothing to fear, they just make you itchy for a while.
Our modern metropolitan societies has fear of almost everything including innocent insects.
Believe me there is nothing to fear but the fear itself.
Below you'll find extreme useful ant links.
Have a great week.
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There is this stuff that you can get but i dont know what the name of it is. You put some on the floor and the ants think it's food and they all go towards it and take it back to the nest,it poisons them all.
Ant spray to prevent them,try and find out where they are coming in from and block them also try not to leave any food or crumbs especially sweet things around, good luck!!
That spray is pretty good that you spray where they are coming in from and it repels them. It is called Ant Stop
I put talcum powder down,
then they choke on it and carry it on their bodies into their nest's,
or pour a load of bleach in the holes were they come from,
DEATH by BLEACH
I don't get them anymore
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ant killer.
Dishwasher soap large buckets poor on all exposed area cracks ect...
I tried ant powder but it didn't seem terribly effective. What did work though was boiling water on the little sods!iI watched them for a while to see where they were coming from and poured boiling water over the nest, then repeated it a few days later. I have no ant problems now!
If you can find the nest pour boiling water on it.
Get the ant poison that they take back to their nest to eat, I did never had problem again.
oven cleaner, watch them melt, god damn swarms
Kill them; spray / poison.
Patch up any holes they may come from.
(such as sidings of loose outlets or so.)
If that doesn't work, I don't know.
Have to find where they're coming from, really.
Can bomb the house with fumes, but I think that would only take them out for a limited time.
THere is a product I swear by called Maxforce or Max Force, it is granules you can buy like at Home Depot, Lowes or any Home and Garden type store. You sprinkle the granules and the ants carry it back to the nest and the queen.. once she is poisoned and dies the other ants die as well..
I have also learned that too much water in your yard will deter their demise (makes them harder to kill) also if you are keeping pet bowls outside draw a line around them with white chalk.. ants cannot cross a chalk line for some reason..
Good luck
get some ant powder and if you see any put some on the ants they take it back to the nest and kill the rest for a short quick solution pour boiling water over them but that doesnt kill the queen so you will have to get some powder as well
ants will never cross a barrier made of salt ...so i usually find the nest and surround it with salt
Pesticides are the only answer.I fought with them for over a year before I got them under control.I used moth balls under the house.Diazinon poison that you mix in a sprayer yourself an placed anything that would draw them like sugar in air tight containers.They are persistant but don't give up,they want go away over night.I also used dursban poison in my sprayer and both in a granule form 10 foot out all the way around the house.When the granules get wet from rain they activate an diposite ant poison over a long period of time.If you are in a dry climate they may be looking for moisture.You can place cans of sugar water with small amounts of the poison in them.Inside I just used kill on contact sprays to kill them an clean up.Good luck you have a fight ahead of you.
I had the same problem. I borrowed an ant eater (Aardvark) from a friend of mine, and guess what, no Ants.
i had this problem, what you need is a kit called nippon? you get two ant bait traps and a bottle of nippon ant killer? place it near the nest and the idea is it gives of a sweet smell to the ants, they enter the trap, get it on them and end up taking it back to the nest...its good stuff? failing that pour some petrol down the hole and light the blue toutch paper? check out this link..http://www.google.co.uk/products?q=nippo...
if outside...hot water out a kettle thats just boiled..inside ant powder will do the job :D
They are on about nipon, it works.
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