I've read there is a concoction to put down on the ant hills-costs hardly anything - maybe cornmeal or cornstarch???
2007-03-21 09:45:28 · 7 answers · asked by Robin R 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
Cornmeal is great, but you have to get the cornmeal from the gardening store, not out of the cabinet in the kitchen. My girlfriend suggests that you use baking soda and white vinegar. First pour baking soda around the mound, then pour the vinegar around and then through the center. My suggestion is to use Quaker oats. Sprinkle on and around the mound. The work ants will carry these down to the queen and they will consume---when it rains they will bloat up and die. Once the queen is dead---there goes your mound.
2007-03-21 11:43:34 · answer #1 · answered by unknownsoldier1st 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ants become a nuisance when they enter homes. Instead of spending money on costly pest control, you can get rid of ants by removing the food source and using soap water.
2007-03-22 06:25:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, if they are biting ants you can mix a protein with boric acid powder........for example peanutbutter, boric acid powder (Roach Pruf) and put in little bait stations .....but how would you keep the dogs from getting into it???
For sugar ants it might be easier, boric acid, sugar and cornmeal.
Personally, I prefer Amdro........
2007-03-21 09:51:32 · answer #3 · answered by fluffernut 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buy ant bait traps. They poison the queen and that kills the colony. I have tried pouring boiling water into the holes and it doesn't work . You have to kill the queen.
2007-03-21 09:48:35 · answer #4 · answered by Gone fishin' 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
50/50 boric acid and sugar
make a paste
2007-03-21 10:54:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
go to chemical store and get peanut pestiside for peanuts .they will never come back
2007-03-21 09:50:13 · answer #6 · answered by AIR HEAD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i've always heard grits (uncooked)
2007-03-21 11:02:47 · answer #7 · answered by house b 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋