get rid of ants?

Question

is there any other way besides raid? even after ive bleached the counters and they're clean they still come around

Answer 1

I use Grant's for Ants baits. Follow the directions which include stirring up the bait and getting them wet and place aound the outside every few feet. If I keep up on it every 6 months or so, I don't get ants inteh house. If I forget, they miraculously appear, litttle buggars!

Answer 2

I like ants. They're clean and harmless (unless you're talking about fire ants or those giant African army ants). They come in and rummage through the trash or anything I've left out on the counter and then they go away. I think cleaning up dead ant corpses which I used to do before I became enlightened is much less pleasant than putting up with the live ones for a few days.

Answer 3

I had a problem with ants this year and I tried everything. I enede up getting somebody to come spray for the ants. When you have a problem there is most likely becuase you have a nest in the house somewhere. Go check around the windows, look in the basement and find out where there coming from . Once you find out then you can take care of the problem. They sell products for ants that you can use inside where it's safe.

Answer 4

Repellents: Ants can be repelled by vinegar, cayenne pepper, citric extracts, bone meal, cinnamon, cream of tartar, salt, and perfume. You will have to keep trying different repellents to find the one your ants aren't willing to tolerate. Place lines of the selected repellent at points of entry and at various points along their path.

Insecticides: There are two ways to kill ants. The first is to dehydrate them by laying out piles of instant grits ( a corn product usually located in the cereal section of the grocery store) at the point of entry and along their trail. They will think of the grits as a food source and consume the pellets. The grits will in turn absorb moisture from the ant's body, thus killing it (instant grits are specially formulated to absorb water more rapidly than regular grits, thus they are more effective). The second method to kill ants is to feed them a mixture of 1 part active dry yeast, 2 parts molasses, and 1 part sugar. They will be attracted to the sugar in the mixture and will eat it readily. Once consumed the yeast will produce gas in the ant, and because they can't expel the gas, it will kill them.

Another method of elimination involves the elimination of the nest. If you can find the nest, you can try pouring boiling water over the nest. If that isn't sufficient, you can try adding cayenne pepper to the boiling water, or using citrus extracts. If you have multiple nests, you could dig up a bucket of ants from one nest and dump it on another nest. Ants are very territorial, and they will readily hunt and kill invading colonies.

Answer 5

Use cucumber peals. I know it sounds strange,but for some reason ants do not like it. Just go by a cucumber and put a few pealing on the counter. It should detour them.

Answer 6

Every fall I seem to have a problem with ants. I have found a product called "Terro" which worked great. It takes a few days for them to totally disapear. I found "Terro" at a local hardware and home impovement store.

Answer 7

Ants only come around if there is something attracting them. You may be cleaning, but you are definitely leaving something out that is attracting them.

Answer 8

yes cut a lemon and press it everywhere around wall floor and counter they wont cross that.
but there a product on the market i dont remember the name its little drop of liquid that attract them,then they feed the rest of the nest with it.it kills all the baby and larva,so after 1 week you would have kill all the colonie i tryed it and it do miracle.

Answer 9

Supposedly Bay Leaves will help. You should check for what they are attracted to, but most likely (depending on where you are) they are coming in to get out of the rain.

Answer 10

You can get rid of ants by using pest control.

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