For the anthills outside, spread Quaker Oats grits mix...ants eat it up, the mix bloats - and they blow up...
Try putting some of the liquid on kettle corn. Double ant trouble.
They used to come into my kitchen-—I read about strewing cucumber skins along the baseboards and counters-——it worked.
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Those traps work great. Kills the colony. We use ‘em every year!
~W
It is a bait to kill the colony.
Read the Label.
They also sell a bottle of liquid. Just put a little blob on some small pieces of cardboard. Very effective. And I think the active ingredient is boric acid, so relatively non-toxic, although maybe you need to be careful with pets.
What about the uncles?
bttt
If you run across some really large black ants with bent antennas, carpenter ants, the borax baits don’t work very well as they don’t go for sweets very often. They are meat and grease eaters that are in the walls of your home.
About the best to get them is to have a company come in and do a drill and treat. This is where they will drill a small hole into the walls every 13 inches and shoot a wet able powder into the wall. It hits as a liquid and dries to a powder which the worker ants consume and carry back to the nest where they vomit up a lot of what they ate and give it to the adult ants. This kills them and the newborns don’t have any adults to help them.
Best I’ve seen is dursban. But many states make this a controlled chemical that you have to have an applicators license to purchase and treat. The advantage to a wetable powder is that it won’t wash away with rain as it is inside your walls. And there it is not dangerous to pets or children like an outdoor or indoor spray that will have to be resprayed after rain or about once a month.
And carpenter ants are smart. They will go across telephone lines or up bushes and trellises to get to openings. So keep plants a few inches off the walls to help slow their entry. The do not eat wood, but they mine in it to establish nest and egging areas and will do a lot of damage in time to your foundation support. Money!
rwood
Make your own sugar/borax trap - https://www.mashupmom.com/yes-borax-got-rid-of-the-ants/
One exterminator told me that, when a nest population is dwindling, they tend to go for protein-based bait and will bypass the sweetly Terro or Pic borax liquids.
I bought one bait trap that was supposed to have 3 or 4 different types of baits. The ants would not even go near it.
I do keep some Terro/Pic cards on the kitchen windowsill for when they show up. I usually have 2-3 infestations about every 2 years.
Yep! First sign of those buggers set them out. They gorge on it and bring it back to the colony.
LOVE me some Terro. It’s been a lifesaver more than once!
Diatomaceous earth works for me.
Ant problem bump of death.
I use Advion.
Yes, Terro brand ant baits work well.
BFL
Yes we already had to put some Terro out as well in the bathroom and kitchen. Knocked the invaders out and in 2 days. Even though I’ve used Terro for years I also bought some Amdro brand traps and placed them next to the Terro just as an experiment and the ants wouldn’t touch it. I know some ants are supposedly sweet ants and some are grease ants so maybe that’s why but stick with Terro!