how do you...?

Question

kill/prevent sugar ants in your house?

(yes my house is clean yes all doors and windows are shut. please no smart a$$ comments)

and it MUST be safe for pets (2 small dogs)

Answer 1

Ants like houses for more than food. They like shelter from rain and snow and they like to be warm in winter.

I kill them with dish soap in water (about 3 tablespoons per pint). It cleans things and takes about 1 minute to die then you wipe up. Put your dogs in another room as drinking soap is no better for them than you. This is effective but if they have a large nest under your house and a good food source outside they will reproduce faster than you can kill.

You should be able to find borac acid at any nursery or hardware store. It usually come in some type of gel or in stake you put in the garden. It is environmentally safe but be sure to check the label for safety around pets and children.

If you have a place where the dogs don't go but the ants do (like inside a cabinet0 this is probably your best bet. Ants take it back to the nest where they share it.

Answer 2

I had problems with sugar ants in the house I'm in until I found the nest under the kitchen sink cabinet. Follow their trail and call an exterminator. You have to get rid of the queen.

Answer 3

This family fought ants for 15 years. I finally got an ant exterminator to come spray the periphery of the house for $35/month. We haven't had ants since, and we don't have a black widow or mud wasp problem any longer either!

Answer 4

ant bait. or search around and under you house for the source. there might be a huge ants nest somewhere near your house. just pour hot water over the nest and they will die. also, sprinkle bicarb soda in the cracks of tiles, edges of walls etc, anywhere where you know the ants go. make sure everything sweet or edible is tightly fastened and that there is no food lying around open.

hope this helps =]