please help...what is the best way to get rid of ants. only in kitchen. not dirty. it has been rainy here awhi
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i say baking soda. or vinegar....
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Orkin man
Orkin man
there are now lost of ant killers that are compleatly safe for kitchens and around pets
try a local supermarket and read the lables
Buy a Sevin product or any type of product with permethryn to put around your foundation. Another great (and SAFE) product is called TalStar. It is labeled for indoor and outdoor use. Expect to pay about $30-$40 for a pint, but it will make up to 30 gallons of solution.
Go to your local store and buy Raid.... the company has gotten really good about not having a strong odor anymore and it exterminates all ants in a speeedily manner!! Good luck, ants are no fun to deal with!
oatmeal, the ants eat it and it expands in there stomach killing them. it works well
Terro ant baits they work great and use them on like the window sill the trick is to put it out either the full bait packs or the liquid on the little card but make sure at least one or two ants see it and know what it is then you will see a whole bunch of em feasting at it and then in a few days (they feed it to the queen) they are all gone!!
i had a problem like this and someone suggested cloves..so i at last end tried it, forgot i put them down..and the ants just stopped..so i can't say it works, but i have experienced that it may have possibly worked.
Find out where they're coming in. Get some Skin So Soft original bath oil. Put it on a cotton ball and dab the spot where they're coming in. They won't come in anymore! Call your local Avon Rep to get a bottle. It comes in several sizes, plus a handy spray bottle that you can just spray where it's needed. It also has several other uses, which you can talk to your Avon Rep about. And yes...it is a great bath oil too! <*)))><
no lie dont kill house centipede or any spiders in ur house becuase there both kill and hunt for insects in ur house and they wont not hurt you too
we are ridden with ants as well , in fact I am writing this from Anthill Farm. So called because of the incessant and never ending ant population over the entire property. Our cabin is usually used as a bridge to a food source by several armies of thatching ants. These guys bite and it hurts when they grab you. Mostly they come in looking for bits of this and that. We try to keep the crumbs up off the counter but for several months each year. usually April to August, they march in a line down the wall here and there both outside the building and inside. We have tried several ant poisons and those do help extinguish some of the population, but I am adverse to administering heeps of poison as it may contaminate other organisms like pets. We pretty much co-exist with these critters, even if we really would prefer not to have them here at all. Maybe it's Buddhist thing, but I don't like to destroy things, even if they are a menace. We do have limits though , and many an ant has met it's end in the sink and dish pan of soap and hot water. Personally I wish they would disappear but I believe in live and let live. Karma being a direct result of the action taken.
I had this prob for years until I had to replace the wall behind my kitchen cabinets due to dishwasher leaking.....I found the culprit was that the idiot construction people left the whole area around the water pipes open and the ants tunneled under the house and came up the hole. I rebuilt the wall, put boric acid inside the walls and expansion foam to seal up all the cracks. They aren't coming in now!
Just started having this problem myself.
SUGAR ANT HOTEL (those tiny, tiny kitchen ants)
1c Borax (in laundry isle)
1c granulated sugar
Water
4 shallow jars with screw lids (small jars from marinated
Artichoke Hearts are ideal)
4 loose wads of toilet tissue
In a small bowl, mix the Borax & sugar. Place a loose wad of tissue into each jar. Pour one quarter of Borax/Sugar mix over the tissue in each jar. Fill jars with water to within 1" of top. Punch 4-8 holes in screw lids using a nail & hammer. Screw on the lids. Place the jars in areas where you have ants (kitchen counters, etc.) but keep from pets & children. This is about as "Green" a recipe as I have found.
I know most ant trap/repellents are not completely safe around pets & children. The ants in my kitchen tend to come up the back wall and along the sink's water pipes from the basement. I push the traps up against the backsplash & under the sink. Your dogs should be no problem since I guess you don't let them up on the kitchen counters or under the sink.
These traps will kill the worker ants but will not kill the queen in the nest. There is a similar recipe of Borax powder which is sprinkled along ant pathways and is taken back to the nest, killing the queen (killing the colony). With pets this is not safe. It is very hard to keep them away from the powder.
I have cats & have used these traps with success.
This info came from Care2: the link is care2.com/channels/solutions/
home/3. From this site you can access hundreds of household hints.
Now that I have given you a "green solution" I will fess up! I just had Terminex treat my kitchen with a jell injected in crecks & crevices where my ant population was coming from. It was a little pricy. We have also had a lot of rain (18" just last week) and I think that drives the little critters inside, by the hundreds. Good Luck!
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