okay yall...I got ants and they are NOT in my pants

[blueamy66]

the bastards are traveling from my kitchen down the hall to my bathroom, into the spare bedroom and then into the master bedroom

Any good ideas, other than Raid?

Ugh.

[marzipanni]

1. Are they little or big? n/t

[Aerows]

2. Borax

Kills ants and roaches on contact. Spread it around the perimeter of where you are, and by wall sockets if you live in an apartment.

[XemaSab]

15. Mix it with sugar or coat meat with it

They'll take it back to the nest.

[HopeHoops]

3. Boric acid. Don't spend your money on the No Roach packaging - get it at the drug store.

They sell it in like 32 oz bottles for far less than the brand-name stuff (that's nothing more than boric acid anyway). It is used mixed with water as an eye rinse. Just ask the pharmacist where it is located. Sprinkle it along the baseboards in the direct path of the ant highway. They'll take it back to the nest and the colony will pretty much explode from within. If you have pets, discourage them from licking it or they'll get a bad tummy ache. It won't kill them or anything.

It works on roaches just as well, but ants are frankly harder to get rid of - especially the really tiny black ones.

[Moondog]

5. ~ posted in wrong place

[dembotoz]

4. perhaps you have different ants than the ones i usually deal with

but the ants i see like to create little superhighways that they love to travel on.
what i try to do is trace the little buggers to where they are coming in. a short burst or raid at this point kills them as they go in and as they go out.
no need for mass attack

[Iggo]

6. Fargin' War!!!

Pick one end and go right down the line, poison, poison, poison.

That's how I do it. Shock and awe, baby.

(Disclaimer: I have no pets or small children.)

[Moondog]

7. Either boric acid, or if you have pets you might try food grade diatomaceous earth. n/t

[PaddyBlueEyes]

8. Thats easy

Hairspray + Lighter=No more ants...

[TK421]

9. we get them in our kitchen every spring-summer...ant traps by Ortho do the job

we have unfinished stairs leading from the deck into the kitchen area and they are getting in through the cracks around the roof area ( we're on the second floor ) Check for any cracks that could lead outside into your home.

When I say "unfinished stairs" I mean that the guy who renovated this house years ago had no fucking clue as to what he was doing here...doors are uneven, not cut across evenly. These stairs in the kitchen have big gaps that lead to the roof downstairs and it is pretty much outside, where ants can come right in.

Those Ortho ant traps work well, just place them where you think they might be coming in

[hedgehog]

29. On the other hand - ants used to visit for about 2 weeks every spring,

then they'd leave. I haven't seen them in years.

[blueamy66]

10. Thx all!!!!!

I told my boss that you would all come thru for me!!!

marzipanni.....little black ones

no pets

[Duer 157099]

11. This stuff. Go straight for what works the best, imho.

I've tried it all, and while my own homemade version of this (which is basically boric acid plus sweeteners) often works, it can be hit and miss to get the exact recipe correct.

These are the best thing I've ever used.

[madmom]

17. This is what we use also, get them every spring.

[marzipanni]

19. Do you add water to those?

I'll get some for my friend if they work as well as the boric acid method. She has two kittens, and those look safer.

I used a slurry of Boric acid, water, and confectioners sugar two years ago for about three weeks. I put a shallow, plastic lid (such as a lid from a quart of yogurt) with a * shaped drizzle of this stuff on it down in the corner where they were coming up inside the wall from outside. As soon as the ants came near it the message got out and within a half hour the ant paste asterisk was totally surrounded by feeding ants.
I kept adding drips of water each day -if it dried up they'd ignore it. I kept this up until no ants were coming in. I must have knocked out the next generation, too, because I haven't see one ant in two years, and they used to come in winter and summer after extended periods of rain or high heat.

[Duer 157099]

21. No, those are already liquid

I've done the homemade boric acid/sugar just like you've done, and when I get the recipe right, it's like a literal magnet for the ants, but for whatever reason, I don't always get it right (boric acid solubility is an issue).

So I just buy those, they are much neater than the plastic lid method, and because it is enclosed, it doesn't dry out like the lid method. When they are done, I rinse them out with hot water to clean them, and the next time I just buy the liquid in a bottle (same brand) and reuse the plastic housing things.

And yes, it can knock them out for more than one season at a time, it's that good.

[qanda]

22. I put these down last year in the early Spring

I did not see one ant in my kitchen for the entire spring/summer. I assume they came and ate but I didn't get to witness it. Best stuff ever for killing ants.

[qanda]

23. Dupe

[quakerboy]

24. That is what works

its the only consistent and non-deadly-vapor-spray-creating winner with the little sugar ants that I have run into in a few of my previous domiciles.

[BlueCollar]

27. I'll vouch for this stuff too...n/t

[RebelOne]

12. I had ant problems for years. I finally bought one of those

plug-in pest repellers. I bought 2 from QVC. The brand name is Lentek. It takes a while to start working, but now I have no ants, roaches, spiders or mice. Even the fire ants outside have disappeared. It sends some kind of vibrations through the walls and repels all those little pests.

[LynneSin]

13. scrub the floor with some good old fashion soap & water

after killing them of course.

Ants can smell very long distances away, that's how they found out how to get in there and get around.

About 2 years ago I had a stream of ants leading up to my cat food bowls. I moved the bowls, killed the ants (shop vac after tossing boric acid on them) and then scrub the floor with Mr. Clean.

Haven't seen them since.

[snagglepuss]

14. Check outside and see if there are any small holes> My mom found some small

holes in the mortar on the external wall of the kitchen and when they got sealed ant problem vanished.

[UTUSN]

16. AMDRO, black or green labels

Black label for most kinds of ants. Green for leaf cutter ants. They take it back to their headquarters and it does whatever it does. FAST, like from one day to the next!1

[MiddleFingerMom]

18. Easy two-step process:

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#1. Drop trou.
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#2. Be patient.
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[blueamy66]

26. thank you

this worked the best

Really...thx all....I'm doing the boric thing....or the Terro

[geardaddy]

20. Here's a completely natural way.

I'm not sure it works for black ants, but it wipes out little red ones.

Mix white sugar with dry yeast in a bown and pour a little in several beer or pop bottle caps (the metal ones) then cover the top of the dry mixture with molasses. Put these caps in the scent trail of the ants and in about a week they'll be gone.

The ants transport the yeast back the the queen and all the other ants and when it mixes with the moisture in their digestive system it expands. Ka-blamo!

[ohnoyoudidnt]

25. I had this problem in a place I lived a few years ago

I don't remember the brand, but it was a jell substance in a little tube. I put the jell in a few spots where they where coming and going and the problem stopped.

[JonLP24]

28. Shooting their antenna seems to work

You get them frenzied and they start killing each other. Just finish off the one that survives. If one is by itself I'm not sure what the best advice is. They breathe fire so watch out for that and shoot them with a high powered gun such as a shot gun or assault rifle.

[RedCloud]

30. Diatomaceous Earth. Fossil shell flour is safe for you and your critters.

But it doth rip them there ants apart with every step they take.