How do you get rid of ants in the carpet?
Question:i want something with the least possible odor/scent that will last a while and won't stain the carpet...no ridiculous answers please..thank you in advance
Answers:
The ants are foraging for food in your house but they actually live in a colony in the ground around your home. You can treat your carpet but it will only be a termporary fix. For a longer, more effective treatment you'll need to kill their colony.
Outdoor poisoned bait like Amdro sprinkled around the foundation of your house will attract the worker ants and they will take it back to the colony to feed the queen and newly hatched ants. The colony will be dead in about a week and your problem will be solved without spraying or dusting your carpet!
Good Luck!
Must be something in the carpet to attract ants.
Have you considered cleaning?
I think there's this organic Raid that smells like cloves. Maybe you should give it a coat of that, then wash the carpet in the tub with alcohol and water. (which is scentless when dry)
well i have had this problem. what i did was i cleaned the carpet with hot water and soap. and then put this anti-bug spray on the carpet and it don't smell! then there has been no ants! and no stains like you didn't want. i hoped i helped!
~Cora
you must have some food w/sugars in them in the cpt.
find the line where they come in, leave a spoon of jam outside at the site and they will all congregate to that point and then move them like crumbs in the woods, like Hansel & gretel.
ants go for sweets, there is no other reason for the ants to be there...unless they are big 1/2inch long black ants, then you have carpenter ants and they are eating the wood in the house...find the nest and kill with diesel fuel...the white eggs turn red and die.
Sounds like you have Argentine Ants. They will actually eat your carpet.
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I would go with the select ant bait. You may also want to lay down a layer of Boric Dust on the carpet. It is an organic product with no odor, and it's less toxic then table salt.
I put the Boric down in my house for earwigs in the carpet and it solved that problem.
ants are attracted by food stuff available there. please get
rid of the root cause either by cleaning or vacuum which
depends on gravity of problem.
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