Problem with ANTS

[dougdagrump]

I use the windex indoors but for out of doors I took some 4" sprinkler risers capped one end fill it with a 9 to 1 mix of molasses & borax put on a second cap with a small hole in it and drop them in a few places around the yard. The ants really dig the molasses so they will swarm it and take it back to the nest where the borax will kill all in the nest. The sprinkler risers will help to keep family pets from getting into it as well. 

Now if this stuff would only work on gophers.

[selector]

I second the borax, but in my case I used good ol' peanut butter.  Mix the white borax powder 50/50 with Kraft pb which has icing sugar mixed in to sweeten it.  You only need about half a tsp wiped in the bottom of a jam jar lid, and place two or three around the periphery of your infested area.   You will find the material gone within about 24 hrs, and you should thoughtfully and generously replenish in the same quantity, being the obliging host that you are.  Within a week, no colony.  Queen is in her sarcophagus and her minions are scattered about like the black death got them. 

 

Take care for wandering pets and young children........please.

[hoofe116]

pablopicatso -

If you use the boiling water technique, be careful! I know someone who was badly scalded while trying to kill ants when the screendoor slammed in his face!

MK

Huh? Did the ants slam the door in his face?? Eew.

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Les

[hoofe116]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Teran5

Hmm, Windex... truely is multi-surface... by the way, how did you figure that out?

 So now I use window for ants

A new graphics program?

<G> Les

[ttrigg]

I second the borax, but in my case I used good ol' peanut butter.  Mix the white borax powder 50/50 with Kraft pb which has icing sugar mixed in to sweeten it.  You only need about half a tsp wiped in the bottom of a jam jar lid, and place two or three around the periphery of your infested area.   You will find the material gone within about 24 hrs, and you should thoughtfully and generously replenish in the same quantity, being the obliging host that you are.  Within a week, no colony.  Queen is in her sarcophagus and her minions are scattered about like the black death got them. 

 

Take care for wandering pets and young children........please.

I like honey and corn meal, myself.  Ants like the honey, find the cormeal granual eawsy to carry.  Take it all down to the Queen.  She likes the corn meal and over endulges.  As we all know get cornmeal wet and tht stuff swells by a factor of ten.  Ever listend to "Poppin Quees"

[kstrong]

I've had good luck just sprinkling the colonies with corn starch. Every spring, I find a new colony or three around the railroad, and this seems to do the trick each year. Don't know exactly why or how it works, but the important part is that it works, and more importantly won't hurt friendly critters.

Later,

K

[GP-9_Man11786]

We have good luck with the outdoor ant traps. They last about three months and seem to keep them under control. If that  doesn't work, I'll really pull the gloves off and use some of the Sevin power I just happen to have around.

[spikejones52002]

Here is two great products. Both made by Terro.

The first is "Ant Dust". Sprinkle it over and around the ant hill. Then take a stick and ruff up the ant hill. They will quickly come up to defend and repair the hill. They find the "Ant Dust" and take it into their hill and it kills all of them.

The second a Liquid dispencer by Terro you get several 1x3 dispencers in a box. I found my kitchen infested with very tiny ants. I placed several in location that I seen a lot of the tiny ants. With in a week  did not see any more. 

The ants do not move. There is so many that you think it is old bunch not just a new.