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How do you get rid of sugar ants in the house?

These ants are the tiny little red ants we call sugar ants.

In the mornings when we get up there will be a few on top of the stove or some on the floor by the edge of the kitchen counter. I have found some in the living room in the carpet.

I have used a couple different type of sprays, and it kills them but more re appear in a day or so.

I sprayed a couple little ant hills outside and that seemed to kill the hill.

My idea was to find something to dust or spray on the inside of the house, that's SAFE, around the edge of the kitchen counters, etc., that the ants will carry back to their colony and kill the colony


Thanks
Hal

get some Fire ants

they will knock them out

Snake

"Terro" liquid is what we have always used when we have a problem with ants.

http://www.terro.com/products/liquid-ant-baits-2oz

http://www.terro.com/faq-ants.php

Terro sucks since it was used by Blanch Moore to kill her husband a few years back. They took the arsenic out of it.

Spray your foundation twice a year with this:



Works fairly well.

A thought:



Hard to litter box train, though.

Had the same problem last month.
Put down TERRO and they were gone in three days. Not to be seen since.

I have a friend who has ant problems every year, especially around her kitchen window and sink. Someone recently told her to buy a box of Twenty-Mule-Team Borax and sprinkle it around the exterior base of her kitchen wall, and in and around any cracks near the kitchen window and sink.

She said she has tried a lot of different treatments over the years, but this is the first one that has actually worked. I remember reading that borax is bad medicine for ants, but I'm not sure why.

My wife uses that in her washing regimen, but I don't know on which clothes. I do know that it is hard to find at times. miles

I did some research and some people have had good luck with Boric Acid mixed with sugar and water and put on cotton balls in a jar lid to make a bait station.

I'll give that a try for the inside of the house.

I'll see what they have for the outside of the house.

Thanks

Hal

Lemon juice on counter-tops eats their little legs off.

I haven't found anything yet safer than diatomaceous earth.
http://www.richsoil.com/diatomaceous-earth.jsp
It's also cheaper than chemical agents.






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It works like a dream. I sprinkle it around the entire circumference of the house (Alabama and Canada) and no problem with ants (sugar or fire), roaches, or anything else for that matter. I do it once every couple of months.

Mind you I keep the dog out of the yard for a couple of days after I sprinkle it, just in case, she loves to get into anything new that hits the ground.

Those lil ants are a pain. They will split the colony and raise multiple queens if pressured and become even harder to kill.

Termidor is the [bleep]. Kills everything.

I used the TERRO traps and that was the end, got them at ACE Hdwe.

Draw a line with chalk. The ants won't cross it. Put out borax mixed with an equal part of syrup.

This above is the one. It's a jelly type trap. The ants take it back to the nest and it kills the queens. Gone.

Thank you for that, I shall try that here.

We use mulesing powder to kill ant nests here, I suspect that more is sold for ants than sheep.

I have ants in one of our bathrooms and they have been a dilly to get rid of. I tried borax along the edges, but the humidity cakes it up and it doesn't seem to do anything. I put out borax/sugar bait and at first, it attract tons of ants and they die off. Then a few days to a week later, I start seeing them again. This time they aren't attracted to the bait like they were. Now I think they've split into 2 nests.

We had a hell of a problem with them this summer. Tried a few traps and bait, including borax/sugar. Nothing helped.

Finally got some Advion gel on a recommendation from a friend. Little squirt along the trail in an out of the way stop. The little bastages would literally turn around and bury their heads in it eating it. A few hours later there would be thousands of them feeding. 24 hours later, nada.

You can find it on the web. Be sure to get the ant kind and not the roach stuff.

Tempo


http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/tempo-sc-ultra-p-215.html?gclid=CL6zodqNgLsCFdBefgodjGcA3A