how to get rid of ants?

Question

my house is full of ants! it's everywhere! im sick and tire of spraying costly pesticides!

how can i be free from stupid ants???

Answer 1

Ants don't care for mint or citrus, cloves or bay leaves, so think orange peel, peppermint tea, lemon juice, ground cloves, etc. If you can plant mint around the foundations of your home, you may deter them from entering. Vinegar has the same acid as citrus, so use it to clean with and ants won't feel welcome. (It probably erases or overpowers the odor trail other ants have left for them to follow.)

Clean bench tops and cupboards down really well, and then wipe down with a clean damp cloth that has a few drops of essential peppermint oil on it, you may need to apply a few drops of oil a couple of times.

Ants hate the smell of it and it is also environmentally friendly, and safe for humans and children, and no residue powders etc to clean up. And the big bonus is that the room smells fresh and minty. I also want to add that you can put the oil on a cotton ball after cleaning and put in the areas you have ants and that should help too...replace once the smell is gone.

I hope this was helpful,Good Luck!!! :)

Answer 2

Well, I found this cool tip long time ago, in some gardening magazine, can't remember the name but here is the tip:

Peel off a cucumber and save the peelings, if you can place the peelings on the windowsills from where the ants are entering or close to the little tiny holes they sometimes use as a way into the house.
I do not know until now what is it about cucumber peels that ants do not like, maybe is the milky layer in the peel, the thing is they do not cross over it, or under or anything, and they try another way- as long as you block it- they stop coming in after a few days.
I think the coolest thing about this tip is that is safe to the environment and there are no zillion dead ants all over your kitchen counter etc.
This has always worked for me, specially in the summer time! give it a try, and good luck to you :)

Answer 3

If you have ants in your house, they are probably coming from a nest outside your house. And, you have to get rid of the source to keep them from coming inside.

Look around your house for the tell-tale column of ants coming and going. Especially near the area where you noticed the ants when they first invaded your house. Ants like to nest underground around dead tree roots, under bricks or stepping stones, or along the insides of retaining walls and slabs of cement.

If you locate a string of ants coming from a specific location in your garden, take a water hose or sprinkler and slowly soak the area where the ants are coming from. After awhile, if there's a nest of ants, they'll all come streaming out in a panic, carrying their ant eggs with them.

Now's your chance to anihilate the nest. With a good ant spray in hand, expose the area where the ants are nesting (move away rocks, bricks, plants, etc) and spray them all dead while they're out of the nest. Look for the queen, too. She's about 3 or 4 times the size of the worker ants and may have wings. Make sure you kill her (there may be more than one per colony). An ant colony can't survive for an appreciable length of time without a queen.

Answer 4

buy some ant poison traps where the poison is food for the ants and the dumb little worker ants carry it back to the colony and feed it to the queen. it works in about a day and a half.

Answer 5

I use a powder (Terro)that works great...i sprinkle it around my entire house, trees and garden..it lasts up to 8 months, even through heavy rains. cucumber peels repel ants as well.

Answer 6

Terro ant bates.