I live in a very clean home but every summer we're attacked by ants. I can't stand it anymore. We've bug bombed the house and sprayed everywhere but they still come back. Any suggestions?
2007-08-10 08:17:36 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Home & Garden ➔ Other - Home & Garden
Like the others said, make sure all food is cleaned up and sealed away. Ants leave a scent trail so they can find their way back to their nest, and thats how they all march in a line into your house. Mop your floors well every few days with white distilled vinegar. This is non toxic and safe, and the vinegar smell will disappear when it dries. It erases the scent tracks. Pretty soon the ants wont have a path to follow into your house.
2007-08-10 08:43:15 · answer #1 · answered by eternicide 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first take away their favorite snacks, Which are sugar , jam, cakes, crumbs of all kind. Keep food in tight lidded container´s. Sweep up or vacuum when finished in the kitchen and dinning room, It´s not because your house is dirty Once they come in and find food, they will happily stay, Ants sometimes stage a wet weather invasion of houses, the escape from wet logged nests. But if there is so little snacks around for them to eat,they will leave of their own accord. Also you can try this, If you know where they are coming from put black peeper around the entrance of their tunnel, the ants will then carry this into the egg-laying queen´s nest and she will move them out,Most people might suggest pouring boiling hot water into the tunnels But this as very little effect as the water never reaches far enough in to kill the egg-laying queen
2007-08-10 08:30:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use Terro Ant Killer. It is a clear liquid that comes in an Orange box. You put a small droplet on a piece of Cardboard (included) and place it close to where the ants are entering your home, or where you see them coming from. WIthin minutes you will see a swarm of them feeding on the liquid, let them eat it because they will take it back to the nest and kill all the ants. I used this recently on Sugar Ants (which are almost impossible to get rid of) and within 24 hours they were all gone and I haven't seen one since. It is the best product out there!!
2007-08-10 09:28:35 · answer #3 · answered by shazcaad 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sprinkle Diatomaceous earth around your residing house, very low priced, discovered at any pool furnish company...retains all bugs out. I used to have a prob with small black ants exhibiting up. I haven'y considered them in years.
2016-11-11 23:22:52 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lemons are the best or Concentrated Lemon/Lime juice. Drip it around the perimeter of the kitchen or wherever the ants are coming from.
2007-08-10 08:51:56 · answer #5 · answered by CityGirl70 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
they are getting food from somewhere. check under the fridge and stove.do you have kids? if you do you have to check EVERYWHERE cause they like to hide things. If you follow a trail of them you can find out where they are going. you wont be able to get rid of them untill all the food for them is gone.
good luck
2007-08-10 08:28:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go find the colony of where they're coming from and spray RAID over it. Or pour gasoline and light it on fire.
2007-08-10 08:25:23 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
dont leave anything out the heat draws them in keep your house cool.
2007-08-10 08:25:19 · answer #8 · answered by Danielle S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
spray windex on them and it will kill
ba please
2007-08-10 08:24:44 · answer #9 · answered by Michael M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋