I have like thousands of them here!
The non-toxic way, please.
2006-09-27 13:15:23 · 17 answers · asked by BarbieQ 6 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it home & can't digest it so it kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but it works & you don't have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
2006-09-27 17:38:10 · answer #1 · answered by get_it_right 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Screw all those goofy answers.
Find Top Choice at a nursery, not Home Depot.
This product treats ONLY fire ants. It take about 5 weeks to really work. Cost about 20 to 30 bucks
If you have a local feed store, get Advion. This stuff works in 48 hours and only effects fire ants. It is so safe, you can eat it.
Cost about 40 bucks, but only take 2 lbs per ACRE,
An acre is about the size of 8 normal size house lots.
Don't eat the Top Choice or you will get sick.
2006-09-27 17:13:35 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is what I do, and it won't actually hurt anything except the ants.
I take some natural soap (my mom makes soap), chop up some of it into little shreds like saw dust or something. Then I put the shreds into about a cup of water, swish it around, then I place the soapy mixture into a sprayer. Just spray the ants, and they'll leave (or die depending on the soap you use). This will also keep them away for a while.
Goodluck!
-Lella^_^
2006-09-27 13:18:53 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try a solution of Ivory liquid soap and water. Make it 1/4 cup of soap to 1 gallon of water. Find the ant hill and flood the ant hill with the soap water. Pour it right down the entrance hole, and soak around the ant hill. You may have to repeat this several times to get all of them. You can also use one of those garden sprayers that attach to the end of your hose. Fill the sprayer with the Ivory liquid soap, and start spraying where you find them. This also works great for earwigs.
2006-09-27 13:26:06 · answer #4 · answered by dathinman8 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get some ant bait stations. You can get them at Lowes or Wal-Mart. They a small and self-contained. The ants take the bait back to the colony, everyone eats, they all die.
Or pour some gasoline down the ant holes. It works for sand hornets, anyway.
2006-09-27 13:17:22 · answer #5 · answered by Elizabeth T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I put out pop bottles cut a 1/3 of the way down filled with maple syrup. Got rid of red ants, tons of them, and it only took 2 pop bottles, and about 4 days. They get stuck in the syrup and die. Good luck. It also catches wasps.
2006-09-27 13:24:04 · answer #6 · answered by talula 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Commercial product.......
Ant Stop Orthene Fire Ant Killer
Home made.....
mix 1 tbsp. sugar, 1 tbsp. molasses, 1 tbsp. dry yeast.
Set out in areas where ants are. They eat it, take it back to the nest and it kills every ant who eats it. The sugar and molasses attract them, the yeast swells up and kills them. Non toxic to plants, kids, animals, although they could get a tummy ache. Good luck to all, this has worked great for me, black or red ants.
2006-09-27 13:22:15 · answer #7 · answered by missourim43 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why get rid of them they belong in the yard. They are good for the soil. help keep your grass green.
maybe is aunts you want to get rid of they can be a pain in the a..
2006-09-27 13:20:06 · answer #8 · answered by teddybear 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
try using dish soap and baking soda mix it really good in hot water then pour it over the ants this method works on flies too.
2006-09-27 13:55:04 · answer #9 · answered by REDROSE 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
boil lots of water add soap and put it in the ant hills it will kill them quickly and painlessly
2006-09-27 13:17:22 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋