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I've been invaded by what I call 'sugar ants' and they are really getting on my nerves. Does anybody have an effective means of getting rid of them?
I googled this and all the methods they recommend are "Greenie-Approved". They suggest tracking them back to their source of getting inside and using some of the most idiotic methods of repelling them. short of taking them to a carnival as a means of distracting them.
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Had some odd ants invade my garage last year, found out that different ants require different methods/bait/poison to remove them.
First thing is get a positive ID.
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Advion ant bait gel. Get it off Amazon. Comes in a syringe.
Squirt a bit next to the trail and the little bastatges will make a left turn and bury their heads in it. Within a few hours there will be thousands there eating it and taking it back to the nest. The next day they'll all be gone.
It's the only thing I've found to be effective.
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My neighbors toy poodle is an ant eater...funny as heck to watch.
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Link http://www.earthworkshealth.com/YouTube Video; Link Dust your counters and floors, in kitchen area with this Food Grade (fresh water) Diatomaceous Earth, (safe around kids and pets)! Phil
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Product called Tempo. Use around your foundation to create a barrier say once every 3 weeks. Pet safe when it dries.
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I bought a lawn chemical made by Bayer that goes in your broadcast spreader and walked around my house in circles with the first ring 3X's, then just kept going until it was gone. We had ants all over our kitcken all the time all of a sudden and they seemed to be coming from the cracks/seams in our patio pavers as evidenced by the mounds of earth.
I watered the patio to dissolve the chemical into the cracks and it stopped the ants cold.
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I've had a real problem with them this year. It started when there was two foot of snow on the ground.
After the snow melted, I poured borax on all the ant hills I could find around the house. It took a couple of applications, but I no longer have ants and all the hills appear to be inactive.
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Micky what you need to do is find yourself some of these ants to wage war on your sugar ants.... ![[Linked Image]](http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v673/rattler_mt/Australia%20Trip%202014/Troys%20place%20Australia/critters/P7190253_zps4e2c81b3.jpg)
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If they are in your house they are there getting something... food usually...
So find out what they are after and clean and seal up everything so there is no residue for them to detect and no reason for them to be there...they won't waste their resources for no reason.
You may occasionally see a few scouts...single ants walking around, but don't kill the scouts.
They will return to the nest on their own and report nothing of interest.
If you see a trail of ants...don't just kill them.
First find the target, the food scrap, or whatever they are into, and remove it. Very shortly they will transmit the information back to the nest and all the workers down the line will withdraw cleaning up their mess behind them as they leave.
They have constant two-way communication up and down the line. If you kill or remove the workers near the food source or in between, the workers farther back up the chain don't get the message to withdraw and keep on coming.
If you do need an insecticide, just a squirt of dish washing detergent in a water bottle is very effective and doesn't leave a nasty smell, but killing the ants at the end of the line usually makes things worse.
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Lemon juice on the countertops eats their little legs off.
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If they are in your house they are there getting something... food usually...
So find out what they are after and clean and seal up everything so there is no residue for them to detect and no reason for them to be there...they won't waste their resources for no reason.
You may occasionally see a few scouts...single ants walking around, but don't kill the scouts.
They will return to the nest on their own and report nothing of interest.
If you see a trail of ants...don't just kill them.
First find the target, the food scrap, or whatever they are into, and remove it. Very shortly they will transmit the information back to the nest and all the workers down the line will withdraw cleaning up their mess behind them as they leave.
They have constant two-way communication up and down the line. If you kill or remove the workers near the food source or in between, the workers farther back up the chain don't get the message to withdraw and keep on coming.
If you do need an insecticide, just a squirt of dish washing detergent in a water bottle is very effective and doesn't leave a nasty smell, but killing the ants at the end of the line usually makes things worse.
this is a most interesting theory or application of natural law. without food, why would the ants waste their time? so, to go further, if possums and coyotes, and feral cats are coming to the edge of the chain link fence to eat food scraps, who could possibly blame them?
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I had the same problem this year of them coming into house. Think they were searching for water.
I tries the soap spray didn't work for me and that got me to go get some repel permanone and gave squirt of it where they were entering house.
It worked. All I can say bout that. Haven't returned
Did have to vacuum up my trophies
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Advion ant bait gel. Get it off Amazon. Comes in a syringe.
Squirt a bit next to the trail and the little bastatges will make a left turn and bury their heads in it. Within a few hours there will be thousands there eating it and taking it back to the nest. The next day they'll all be gone.
It's the only thing I've found to be effective. Gloryoski! Sounds like just what I need. Thanks, Steve. 
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Micky what you need to do is find yourself some of these ants to wage war on your sugar ants.... I'm afraid they'd kill one of my dogs, Sheridan. 
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Do they look like these Crazy ants? I know they have them in Houston and the colonies are huge. ![[Linked Image]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fd/Starr_050610_2340_anoplolepis_gracilipes.jpg/1024px-Starr_050610_2340_anoplolepis_gracilipes.jpg)
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Try the gel. If that doesn't do it, find some Termidor.
I had them a couple years ago and went straight for the Termidor. Sprayed around the foundation, it takes care of all the ants.
As mentioned, don't go smushin' the ants. The lil bastids will raise new queens when stressed and the colony will split and multiply your problem.
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Crazy ants are a whole 'nuther pain in the azz.
Sugar ants, or pizz ants, are the little tiny sob's that smell kinda sickly sweet when smushed. They usually travel in lines.
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Crazy ants are a whole 'nuther pain in the azz.
Sugar ants, or pizz ants, are the little tiny sob's that smell kinda sickly sweet when smushed. They usually travel in lines. These are the kind I have. Little bitty black ants.
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