Just curious if anyone has any ideas. I've heard that white vinegar works, but not sure if there's any ground to this. Thanks.
2006-08-21 04:11:54 · 6 answers · asked by Rob 5 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
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* As Simple As Vinegar, Ants won't cross a line of vinegar.
* Both inside and out is the following recipe:
2 cups of sugar
1 cup of water
2 tablespoons of Borax Laundry Detergent
Place all ingredients into a saucepan and bring to the boil (while stirring), Boil for 3 minutes. Using the plastic lids from milk containers, Place it in the effected room or outside where the ants are. They will find the sticky liquid no matter where it is placed. The ants eat this and then take it back to their nest. Before long there will be no more ants as this mixture will kill them.
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ANT KILLER 1:
1/2 cup molasses
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 envelope dry yeast
Mix all ingredients together. Place a few drops on pieces of cardobard, then place wherever ants are coming in.
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ANT KILLER 2:
1 or 2 cups of grits
I am from South Georgia, and in the South we have "fire ants." You could go out and buy expensive ant killers but they are very harmful to children and pets. Instead this method works great. All you need is something you may have in your kitchen: Grits. just take (1 or 2 Cups) of GRITS, and sprinkle them around the ants mound in the yard. When ants see food, they immediately tell everyone in the colony and then start working to feed the colony. An ant's body is made almost entirely of water. Grits are food that soak up water. When an ant eats these grits, his body gets all the water soaked up out of his little body and dies. This is a much better alternative to getting rid of ants in your yard than wasting money on expensive bags of ant killer or bills from your local pest control.
2006-08-21 05:00:53 · answer #1 · answered by Excel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have used white vinegar as an ant repellent. It takes multiple sprayings, but it does work.
2006-08-21 04:18:06 · answer #2 · answered by nasonic 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to walgreens/walmart and by really cheap soda with a lot of sugar in it. do whatever you want with the soda but make sure to leave an inch of soda in the bottle and leave it somewher you dont want ants coming. when the rain comes falling the ants go to the soda and when the rain stops take it away toa park or something where the ants wont get killed. aleen
2016-03-17 00:39:53 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dish washing liquid soap and water. Pour directly into the opening of the ant hill.
2006-08-21 04:20:13 · answer #4 · answered by Bobbie S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
simply plant mint around the house, or get potted plants and place them where needed. ANTS HATE MINT!!
2006-08-21 06:32:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
sprinkle nutrasweet where the ants are and they will take it back to the queen. it will kill the entire colony quickly.
wonder what it does to us
2006-08-21 04:20:22 · answer #6 · answered by annie - rainbow goddess 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋