ants home remedy?

Question

how do i kill ants in my lawn home remedy

Answer 1

Non-chemical methods include applying hot water, and physically excavating the nest. All individual mound treatments may cause the ants to relocate and create a new mound. Even if the queen is killed, surviving ants may still inhabit the treated mound or make a new mound until they die off naturally, which may take over a month. Thus it may be necessary to retreat remaining mounds that still contain ants.

Answer 2

Used laundry water! No, really. Stick a big bucket under the pipe that leads out of your washing machine and capture the "grey water" from your washer when it starts the spin cycle, then dump the water on the anthill. It's basically free, and helps reuse water.

Now, as to why it works: Ants, like all insects, breathe through holes in the sides of their abomens (the "tail" parts of their bodies), by sliding the plates that make up their shells for the "accordion" effect. To keep these plates from sticking, insects secrete a waxy lubricant that makes the plates slide easily on each other.

Spraying or soaking insects in detergent will dissolve this wax, fill up these breathing holes, and cause the insect to suffocate. Because ants are so small, they die almost instantly if you spray them with any kind of household cleaning solution; we used to use Simple Green when we had an ant problem, because it's biodegradable and non-toxic.

Answer 3

i'm getting ants interior my living house, on condition that there is a dull moth or fly around the skirting-board or on the window-sill. they supply the effect of being to return out from nowhere. And, I stay in a 2 storey living house. i don't get them downstairs. the only way for interior is to apply fly-spray on the ants (kills them in the present day), then vacuum the place they are (mendacity lifeless). exterior ants are impossible to get rid of to boot. in case you observe ants come out of a small hollow. in case you place "Ant Sand" the place the hollow is, they're going to make yet another sooner or later after immediately. Fly Spray additionally works by utilising spraying into the holes, plus spray all of those you will see. you will get a expert to do the interior and out of doors ant situation, yet whats up .... they are in a position to't get rid of all of them. they may well be coming over on your place out of your neighbours.