What can I do to get rid of the annoying little things? They are coming inside my home.HELP!
2006-07-01 16:22:56 · 12 answers · asked by aulona37 3 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Here's one I've used for years, 20 Mule Team Borax laundry soap, put the dry soap in one of the ketchup squeeze bottles that you can buy at the dollar stores, apply around baseboards, kitchen cabinets any where you see the ants. Leave it lay for a few days and the ants will carry it back to their nest and it will kill them, vacuum up any remaining laundry soap when you no longer see any signs of the ants, and use the rest of the laundry soap to do your laundry.......my grandmother also used this remedy.
2006-07-01 16:39:53 · answer #1 · answered by judy_derr38565 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Inside the house -- use Terro. You can get it at Wal-Mart. The first day, maybe two, there will be more ants, but that is not a bad thing. They will feed on the Terro and take it back to the colony. In the yard, you need a mixture of borax, sugar, and flour. You can make dough balls if the infestation is really bad. You can also mix borax with a little sugar and place it directly around the ant hills. The ants pick the borax up on their bodies when they go after the sugar. The borax kills them, but not immediately. It sticks to them, and they carry it back to their colony.
You must kill the queen to kill the ants, so use something that the ants will carry back to the nest.
2006-07-01 16:30:37 · answer #2 · answered by Rainbow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The termeric is a good repellent of the ants. You may sprinkle some termeric powder around the hole of the ants, if you can find, otherwise near the entry from where these insects enter your house. you can sprinke the solution of the termeric powder at the places where they usually try to gather. The termeric powder is harmless, while other chemicals or poisons are harmful if they get sprinkled at the utensils or the eatables.
2006-07-01 16:44:39 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, and ants are quite insidious. They tried to take over my complete domicile one summer season. each room. the toughest area is attempting to be certain the best place the place they are entering into from. and there is not any such difficulty as "one ant"...in case you spot one there are 10,000 extra someplace. i do no longer undergo in innovations the place I study or heard this...yet I had of project to aim it out approximately 10 days in the past and it worked. a million area New daybreak dish washing liquid and 3 factors water in a sprig bottle. i've got constantly used fragrance-unfastened Raid ant & roach killer and it works for 3 months like it says without the nasty scent. yet we've been out...then I remembered the recent daybreak difficulty. do no longer know if it is going to final 3 months, yet all of them curled up and died instant. have not seen one ant when you consider that. desire this facilitates.
2016-12-10 03:22:43 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ants don't like dryer (fabric softener) sheets. Also Cayenne pepper or crushed chilli pepper sprinkled over doorways and window ledges.
Whenever I've had ants I use a liquid poison I buy in a little bottle and put it out in beer caps all over the place where my pets can't get to them. The ants carry it back to the "nest" to feed others and eventually the colony dies.
2006-07-01 16:30:15 · answer #5 · answered by Dellajoy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What you have are called "ghost ants"
What works like magic is Tarro, which you can buy at Home Depot or Lowes.
You can also wipe down your counters with white vinegar to keep them off.
Been there, Done that!
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2006-07-01 16:30:18 · answer #6 · answered by Havahekuvaday 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello, I have heard of two remedies for ants. One is Boric Acid, u can get it in a drugstore.. just sprinkle it where the ants go, window sills, doorways, etc. also black pepper.. use the same way. I know the boric acid works cuz when we had ants yrs. back, the boric acid did the trick! good luck!
2006-07-01 16:27:10 · answer #7 · answered by skiptrial 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i was told by my husband cause i have the same problems with my plant there are to many ants a solution with soap and water in a spray bottle 1/3 soap the rest water and what ch them fall of to there death.and if that don't work call the or kin man
2006-07-01 16:28:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
omg i lived in hawaii for a year n I had the same problem. go to a locol grocerie store and my terro it will be orange and there are two diff. tipes u can get GET THEM BOTH it works WONDERS
2006-07-01 16:27:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hmm i would help you, but my idea isn't patented yet. just put out ant killer seed away from your house and maybe mix in a little suger or a sugary food with it.
2006-07-01 16:26:11 · answer #10 · answered by Simmy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋