2007-03-02 14:44:34 · 9 answers · asked by Chickie 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Diatomatious earth works very well. It takes time but you will rid yourself of them ..Dont use raid or any other poison as all you will do is kill the ones you see. The nest is the thing to kill. DE will be carried back to the nest and kill it off..If you find the nest do not disturb it like digging etc. All you will succeed in doing is getting them to move to another part of the house. Diatomatious earth is the skeletons of small sea creatures that are very sharp. If an ant or any other insect with an ectoskeleton walks across it the small bits get caught on them and they get cut and bleed to death. Or hire an exeterminator.
2007-03-02 14:49:44 · answer #1 · answered by Jerry G 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Okay, I have tried all of these other answers before living in Florida and NONE of the home remedies worked!
However, I finally gave up and called an exterminator and that worked! It only cost me $14 and they came out and found the colony, sprayed them and no more ants. I had those little black kitchen ants or "sugar ants" because they get into ANYTHING in the kitchen (flour, sugar, oil, pasta- anything). Come to find out they were living in a post OUTSIDE that supported the roof of our porch and were trailing up to the roof, over and down into my kitchen cabinets. I know how you feel, it was so frustrating to try everything only to watch them march across the ceiling and then the counters and then the walls. Nothing I did helped. Not traps, concoctions, sprays, or cleaners. And because they found the tiniest bit of crumbs not even locking up all food in air tight containers worked. They just moved to my trash! Call an bug man he'll nip their little butts and usually guarantee the work.
2007-03-02 16:21:25 · answer #2 · answered by furijen 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do we have to kill ants?
They hate cinnamon and won't cross it, i've had excellent results placing small piles around the areas the ants frequent.
Any type of pesticide provides only temporary relief from the ants. Perhaps more importantly, any type of poison used in this manner eventually accumulates in the food we eat.
2007-03-02 15:22:37 · answer #3 · answered by ericbaudry 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Raid Ant baits
2007-03-02 15:45:09 · answer #4 · answered by Alaska 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try a mixture of sugar and washing soda. The ants can't tell the difference, take the borax back to the nest, the queen ant will eat it and die, and the rest of the ants will either die from eating borax or leave the nest.
Another alternative is to leave little piles of cornmeal out for them to find. They can't digest it, and will die of starvation.
2007-03-02 14:55:01 · answer #5 · answered by JelliclePat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
call a exterminator cost about 50 bucks and you take out the whole herd and all the others damn pests
2007-03-02 14:50:11 · answer #6 · answered by can you anser my question 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
try putting cayenne pepper around your doorways and window seals.
2007-03-02 14:46:56 · answer #7 · answered by butterfly_tat_luver79 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get a cat..oh wait, that's a mouse.
2007-03-02 14:47:45 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2007-03-02 20:21:43 · answer #9 · answered by enasgarden 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋