We've tried the bombs, the bait traps and spray but they keep coming back and get into everything.
2006-07-05 08:52:17 · 10 answers · asked by bryton1001 4 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Buy some 20 Mule Team Borax laundry soap, put dry soap in one of the ketchup squirt bottles that you can buy at one of the dollar stores, apply around baseboards, cabinets etc. Leave lay for a few days until you no longer see the ants, they will carry it back to their nest and it will kill them. When you no longer see any signs of the ants vacuum up excess boran and use remainder of the box to do laundry....this will cost you less that five dollars to do, and it works.
2006-07-05 15:14:52 · answer #1 · answered by judy_derr38565 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do agree with Nancy on this one. I used liquid TERRO Ant Killer in my bathroom and the ants came marching one by one after the liquid. Took it back to there homes and haven't seen an ant in the bathroom since than. It is amazing on how many ants get attracted to this stuff. Works in kitchens, living rooms, bathrooms and etc. Very easy to set up and cost is minimal and well, I can only say that I am impressed.
2006-07-05 10:44:05 · answer #2 · answered by bambie302000 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You've got to take the fight to them. Spray outside, not inside, and don't bother with the bait. Ant colonies are usually so big that the bait doesn't kill the queen. Without a dead queen, the bait is just one more thing for them to eat. They tend to make lines along walls, fences, pipes, and tree roots. Also check the trunk of trees, for some reason, they seem to like climbing up those.
Your house is built in a concret foundation, which rarely cracks, so they shouldn't be getting in under your feet. They tend to find ways in, especially around plumbing, and natural cracks. Sometimes they come in around electrical wiring or gas lines, but they seem to prefer the cracks and pipes instead.
Here's a few new tools; Diatomaceous earth, and caulk.
Diatomaceous earth can be found in various garden stores by the pound, or you can get it compressed into chalk, usually from various chinese stores. Normally, it's a whitish powder, from exoskeletons of nealy microscopic sea creatures that have spikey shells. the spikes are too small to hurt people, or birds, or dogs, or whatever, but they scratch up the joints between the shells of bugs, which makes them dry out, and die.
Pour a line of diatomaceous earth around your house along the foundation, and in between the crack between the driveway and the garage. Funnel it between cracks in boards where the ants get in, and rub it into the corners of cabinets that the bugs get into. Pour some in holes in the walls around the pipes. If you're using the chalk, you can write obscene anti-ant ravings inside your cabinets, and behind furntiure. if you feel DIYish, you can open up electrical fittings to spread it around inside the walls. That'll keep them from exploring the insides of your home. Between the boards, it'll also help keeping the boards from squeaking. if you have a lot leftover, you can put it all around the sidewalk and fences. Maybe the ants will associate manufactured products with death.
Caulk is sold in tubes around the plumbing/bathroom section of most hardware stores. It usually requires the additional use of a caulk gun, but plain tubes like toothpaste are also available. The guns can get messy if you're not an expert, but they're probably cheaper if you've got a lot of caulking to do.
Caulk up around plubming fixtures, especially the tub, the toilet, the sink, and the washing machine. Gas pipes are also a good bet, because in general, you'll want an expert to modify gas or plumbing lines inside. Electrical has a bigger chance of needing to be moved around. Cracks in the walls, and around windows are also a good thing to be caulking up. Caulk prevents an actual barrier between the ants and your home, which they will have to chew through (if possible) to get past. It also helps to seal your house up, and should reduce your AC bills.
Good luck.
2006-07-05 09:50:28 · answer #3 · answered by ye_river_xiv 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have found that Liquid Tarro does the best. It comes in traps or you can drop it on to paper and put it where they can track through it and take it back to the colony. What ever you do, don't spray anything on them. It just makes them scatter to other spots in the house.
2006-07-05 09:35:04 · answer #4 · answered by nancy p 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have to keep fighting. Do you know that the ratio ant-person is 10 to 1?
2006-07-05 08:55:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I had the apartment complex that I live in hire an exterminator to come out and spray inside the walls.
2006-07-05 08:56:09 · answer #6 · answered by miss_gr8ful 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lemongrass and citronella are effective, environmentally friendly and safe for animals and humans. Plus they smell good.
2006-07-05 08:57:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vinegar or try lemon juice.
2006-07-05 08:56:18 · answer #8 · answered by Shelly L 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
step on them or use the ants spry u could it anywhere (i think)
2006-07-05 08:55:52 · answer #9 · answered by wjlkh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Pretty good arguments.
2016-08-14 02:36:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋