How do you get rid of ants?

Question

I have ants so bad, i can not afford to get the house sprayed, they are all over the kitchen and it is clean,it has been raining alot here, and that is whan they started coming in :(, i have ant traps out and been using raid, does anyone know a better way
Thanks

Answer 1

Borax laundry aid, they take it back to the nest and it literally eats their legs off. It also makes the eggs sterile. Ants also hate mint. some kinds (spearmint) draw the ants to it and then kill them, other varieties (table mint) they avoid all together.
I have teen age kids, lots of nieces and nephews (that are babies) around, and 4 pets, I use this method because it is cheap, and it is not as poisonous as insecticide on the ones I want healthy, kids, cats, dogs, etc...
Mint is a perennial with white and some lavender flowers, deep green leaves and smells pretty. It comes up every year with no help from me. I have it surrounding my house now, and haven't seen anything except spiders and the occasional "made it inside somehow" bug in about three years when the mint finished surrounding the house. It has no effect on the landscaping other than the deep green foliage that peeks out from behind and around the ornamentals already planted there.
I like plants.

Answer 2

Yes I Do! After going through everything minus calling terminex I finally found that cayenne pepper placed around the walls of your kitchen (or any other place you can find them coming in) will prevent them from entering your home (they will not cross the cayenne pepper) also place it along the window seal. After you place the pepper down all you have to deal with is the ones already in your home but the raid and traps will catch them quickly once no more is coming in. You can also make a home made trap using a jar with a piece of raw bacon drizzled in honey at the bottom of the jar along the upper edge to keep them from crawling back out along the inner rim smear a thin layer of Vaseline.

Answer 3

Take a cup of Borax, a cup of sugar, and a cup of water. Make a paste and cover a cotton ball with the paste. Put the cotton ball in an empty tuna can. Place the can where ants can reach it. Make sure it is in a spot where pets and small children can't get it. In two or three days you will be ant free.

Answer 4

Purchase some 20 Mule Team Borax laundry soap, put the dry soap in one of the cheap ketchup squirt bottles that you can pick up and any dollar store, apply the laundry soap around baseboards and cabinets, anywhere you see the ants and leave it lay for a few days until you no longer see any signs of the ants, they will carry it back to their nest and it will kill them. Vacuum up any excess laundry soap after the ants are gone and you see no signs of them and use the rest of the box of soap to do your laundry with. This should cost you about five bucks, and it works.

Answer 5

Ant spray

Answer 6

Sprinkle Diatomaceous earth round your position, very less expensive, got here upon at any pool furnish business enterprise...keeps all insects out. I used to have a prob with small black ants showing up. I haven'y considered them in years.

Answer 7

This may sound funny! But if you sprayed them and it did not work, try peeling some cucumber skins and leave'em where you susbect there are ants.... it should work, I read it in a magazine, but I have not tried it to be quiet honest!

Answer 8

There is a special CEAP ant killer that you put on little strips of paper that attract the ants and the take it back to their nest.

Answer 9

Depending on who is around, What my mom used to do is put half water and half bleach and then spay the ant and it work plus its cheaper. But it also kinda unsafe if you have infents crawling around

Answer 10

Cut up an old sponge and soak the sections in Cider Vinegar.Place the sections around the areas where you see the ants.Ants will be gone!