My Parents are gaving a huge ant problem and want to kill them but I just feel bad for those ants. I admit I dont like ants either...but I dont want to kill them.
2007-03-04 04:06:24 · 20 answers · asked by Sandra G 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Scoop them up with a dustpan and brush and take them outside.
Thoroughly clean, make sure there isn't any food that is open in the cupboards or on the counters. If they have nothing to eat, they'll be less likely to come in.
Find out where they are entering the house. Put baking soda in the area (to mask the chemical scent trail that they use) and seal up the hole.
2007-03-04 04:11:12 · answer #1 · answered by Vegan 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
As far as I know there is no way to do that. You may feel sorry for the ants but if they are carpenter ants the will do the same as termites, Eat your house. If you took all the people in the world and put them on a scale and then took all the ants in the world and put them on A scale the ants would be heavier
2007-03-04 12:15:57 · answer #2 · answered by Jerry G 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ants are an important part of the eco system. I guess a humane way would be to move all the eggs into a box with soil in to encourage the ants to make there nest in it then when you are satisfied most all ants are bedded down for night take box to a tip site or woodland and just leave it there.
2007-03-04 12:11:59 · answer #3 · answered by Jewel 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't feel too bad about killing them, its been proven that ants brains are too small to have pain receptors, in other words they don't feel pain. However, if you kill a few of them, other ants pick up on the fact that some of their mates are being killed and will 'retreat'. Also try to find out where they are getting in and block it up. Also try to locate the nest and destroy it if you can. Remember, they don't feel pain so to them, one minute they're looking for food and the next minute they're dying and they don't even realize. Good luck.
2007-03-04 18:27:15 · answer #4 · answered by mallybb298 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You big Jessie! What is wrong with killing the buggers? Get some Raid and have an ant genocide!
2007-03-04 15:36:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, they don't mind dying. I've killed ants by the hundreds, and they just keep collecting food like I'm not even there. They are determined little guys, and you are probably gonna have to poison the colony.
2007-03-04 12:10:06 · answer #6 · answered by th_779 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
get yourself a pest repelent. you know the one that use smoke ect!the ants can sense smoke and will move away as if they are in great danger!
good luck dont get ants in ya pants lol!!
2007-03-04 12:16:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Offer them some tickets for a round the world cruise!
2007-03-04 12:09:55 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
well my grand father says go get a big bag of rock salt and put it around the hill nests and make like barriers to where you don't want them and herd them to where you want them to go.they won't cross over the salt. and it keeps them from going under ground
2007-03-04 12:12:09 · answer #9 · answered by JAYHAWKER 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Sprinkle cornflour were your having the problem. Its safer than ant powder.. try and find were they are coming from and cover the hole with cornflour..
2007-03-04 12:10:32 · answer #10 · answered by Lisa P 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋