how do you get rid of ants out of your house?

Question

I have the large black ants everywhere in my house. I can be sitting on the couch or just walking through the house and see them crawl across the floor. I was exercising in the floor and one bit me on the arm. How do you get rid of them or stop them from coming into the house?

Answer 1

A Few Ways
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Fast Way:
Get fresh baking soda and mix it with a little confectioners (powdered) sugar. Bait areas. Ant will eat and explode. Their digestion is highly acidic and baking soda and acid causes Carbon Dioxide. They have no way to "burp" and their abdomens will explode.

PROS: Quick Kill. Bait safe around pets.
CONS: Does not get back to the queen or the colony.

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Slow Way:
Boric Acid with a little confectioner's sugar. Bait Areas. Ants will eat and take back to nest. Boric Acid is slow acting and will kill the queen when the workers return to feed her. Colony will share the food and die.

PROS: Colony and Queen Killed
CONS: Bait not safe around "curious" pets.

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Professional way:
Hire Exterminator to do this for you.

PROS: Usually a better area of coverage.
CONS: Costs.

Answer 2

I had a ant line that came from outside to my kitchen trash can. I had to sweep the ants outside and place cayenne pepper at the entry way. ( Do not kill ants inside the house, they leave a scent that DRAWS others ants to the same area where they were killed.) I even sprinkle some on the door because ants are relentless. If their way is blocked they will try to find another. I also sprinkle some on their trail leading to my house. It didn't take too long before they stop trying to come into the house. But I still let the pepper stay there for two weeks. Then cleaned the area. No more ants and it has been a year now.

Answer 3

Lure the ants outside with a bait pile of sugar and honey. Slowly move the pile further away.
Keep you house immaculate clean. If there's no food, they leave.
Find out where they are entering the house and plug the holes.
Ants don't like mint. I plant mint all around my house. Keep it well watered.
When the ants are well involved with the bait pile, you can replace the pile with ant sticks or poison. Read the directions. Ant stakes work well too. Place them around the house.
Ants are attracted to garbage, so put all garbage in plastic bags. and seal them. Clean the garbage containers with pine-sol and don't rinse. Leave a strong solution on the container inside and out and on the floor around the garbage area.
Ants love meat. To lure them outside place meat outside the door with the bait pile.
Once outside you may follow the trail to the source and place more poison.
Ant sticks work well. The ants carry the poison back to the main nest and feed it to the larvae and queen.

Answer 4

Use a half and half mixture of 20 Mule Team Borax and confectioners sugar (powdered). Sprinkle next to the ant's nest or anywhere you see the bugs. A slightly less messy way to treat ants is Borax and grape jelly. These are safe ways to kill ants without using chemicals or baits that can harm children or pets. Hope this helps! Good luck! :)

Answer 5

I suppose having an Anteater for a pet is out of the question?

You can try purchasing Ant sprays at your local Lawn & Garden store (Lowes, Home Depot, Agway, etc...) Spray all around the crevices of your house (baseboards, etc.)

If that doesn't work, call an exterminator in.

Answer 6

try drawing a chalk line where they come in.

Dry grits will help get rid of the nest as the ants carry them back to the nest and the other ants eat them. Once the grits mixes with saliva they expand and the ants die.

Answer 7

a safe and ecofriendly way to get rid of them is to use turmeric powder. Its a yellow powder made from an underground root - used in cooking esp in Indian food. Dust liberal amounts along all cracks and crevasses. If you can follow an ant to its hmoe and dust evenly around the anthill - you should not have a problem. Turmeric is harmless to pets, people and soil.

Answer 8

Don't leave any kind of food that would attract them exposed.
Use special products that kill ants. There is the product that you put in the corners of your house (small plastic thing). The ants eat from it and then they die. You can change it every 2-3 weeks.

Answer 9

First make sure there is no food source for them, either call a pest control place or I go to a place called do it yourself pest control and buy poison called Demon and I spray it all the way around where the floor meets the walls, the lower corner of the house.

Answer 10

You have got to keep things clean in and around your house. To stop ants from entering, you can just put some turmeric powder on the window sill or around the door frame.