2006-08-10 13:57:53 · 26 answers · asked by weatherman123 2 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Go to the zoo and crawl over the fence and snatch yourself an anteater.
Make sure it's the anteaters' cage and not the lions' or tigers' or bears' ohhhhh myyyyy!!!!
2006-08-10 14:03:37 · answer #1 · answered by Pacman35 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
mix 1 part baking soda and 1 part icing sugar (small amount) and sprinkle it around the anthill and along the ant run. Repeat every day if it is washed away. The ants will be gone after a week or so.
ps Ants do come back, you may have to reapeat this if you see them again, however they are very easy to manage.
2006-08-10 21:02:46 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I know that they don't like pepper. Try dumping some down the old ant hill and see what happens.
Maybe if the collony isn't to big you could find it, dig it up, and transplanted to another area in a wheelbarrow or large bucket.
2006-08-10 21:09:23 · answer #3 · answered by AlphaD 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Borax
The kind you buy next to the Laundry soap. Mix it half & half with sugar & the ants will carry it back to the colony
Long term solution....
If it's a problem with ants in your yard try planting Peonies in your garden. the ants will eat your peonies & stay away from your house
2006-08-10 21:05:21 · answer #4 · answered by èmm© 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sol-u-mel is a non-toxic spray that works to kill ants but also repel them if you spray in the area where they are coming from. The main ingredient is Melaleuca Oil. Let me know if you want some, I can get it for you.
2006-08-10 21:03:28 · answer #5 · answered by mamabird 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Diatamaceous earth, its organic. Its is like a powder and when the ants or other insects walk over it, it cuts them like glass. It sounds really cruel, but it works. Good luck!
2006-08-10 21:51:03 · answer #6 · answered by pink_avocado 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Step on them. Works for me. Also, if you find their mound or hole, pour a little (not so much to hurt your lawn) of gasoline on the opening. This might end up being worse than the pesticides, though. May God bless and keep you.
2006-08-10 21:02:30 · answer #7 · answered by blowry007 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Go Old Skool! Go out in a sunny day, find a ant(s) then with your handy magnifying glass, focus the light in the ant, and watch it burn!!!
2006-08-10 21:03:51 · answer #8 · answered by Bismarck 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Soak towel in hotwater and a bit of bleach to wipe off the trail.
2006-08-10 21:37:08 · answer #9 · answered by RunSueRun 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On a very dry day put grits out near their mound... wait til you are sure they have carried bunches of it down to the queen and friends... then add water... gently of course... hee hee hee.
works every time.
2006-08-10 21:06:25 · answer #10 · answered by 13 ths LINDA S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋