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ants problem

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johnjosh

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we are having big ants problem in the kitchen, any good product on the marktet that can cure this problem once and for all, ps we live in a house if that makes any difference.
 
We just bought a bunch of ant traps. Testing it out now. Appearantly they'll kill the whole nest of the ant including the queen.
 
zim thanks for the link but this ants are really small so not sure which ones they are . as for anti traps how dangers are they to your help, do you need be out of the house whille they are set?
 
Can?t take any pictures as I killed all of them with vacuum cleaner but they go inline. Basically they are going all the way to my sink as I left dirty dishes stay there overnight. They get in thru the walls coming out between the molding and the wall.
 
Originally posted by: jessicak
Maybe a terminator?
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my parents are thinking about that but wondering if there is cheapers easier way to fix the problem before hiring a professional to do the job.
 
You can have some fun with a compressed air can turned upside down..hehe.

The bait that I've found to work well is the Terro Liquid ant bait, or the Grants Liquid Ant Bait--the ants that I have are the sweet eating type. I tried the other kinds of [solid] ant baits, but the ants didn't go to those, they didn't even go for the "dual" food ant baits.
 
The only way to get rid of them for good is to make sure you never leave anything out that they could eat. Traps might kill them for a bit, but they will be back, trust me. They're like the Borg.
 
The best thing is to have a pest control guy come out and spray. I have it done quarterly and it really destroys any pests.
 
Fools. If you want the ants to go away, clean up your pigstye kitchen and quit feeding them! :|

I've never understood why people consider ants pests.

They don't bite/sting(well, the kind you find in your house anyway).

They don't eat/live in the houses wood(generally).

They aren't dirty.

They're doing you a favor by cleaning up your mess. Seriously.

There are a lot of ants around here. Scouts are a frequent sight. It's not a big deal, you don't need to run for the RAID. As long as there is no food, a few scouts is all you will see.

The last thing I would recommend is to spray neurotoxins all around the your place of residence. Use some common sense people.. If you think the ants are bad, how about the chemicals? I'd say they're even worse, because you can't see them.
 
Ants ARE pests... often it has nothing to do with how clean your house is. Yes, the problem CAN be that the house is not very clean and they found a source of food, but that's not always the case, and that still doesn't count as an invitation. When I was real young we had ants in the house for a couple years... they were in bags of flour, pancake mix, bags of sugar, snack foods like chips and cookies, in the toaster, in the dishwasher, in the cat's food dish. Seems as though there was a colony of ants that took up residence right near our house... there were 4 or 5 lines of ants entering the house around the foundation, thank god they never made it upstairs into the bedrooms... wouldn't that be a nice surprised, 5 or 6 hundred ants crawling on you, in your ears, in your hair, in your nose.

ANYWAY... the way we got rid of them is with plain ol' Raid. We sprayed the outside of the house to cut off their entrance... it was that kind that foams up and creates a nice barrier... we went almost all the way around the outside of the house with that... then used a less toxic insect repellant inside (forget what kind, but was supposed to be perfectly find for use in home even around pets and small children) to kill the ants that were already in plain view... then set a bunch of ant traps to lure the ones hiding in cupboards and whatnot. It took 2 summers of this before they stopped coming back... we'd notice small ant hills in the back yard... possibly entrances to their nest or hive, whatever you call it. So we'd soak them down with the outdoor Raid or just water the lawn and flood their nest =) We use ant traps outside too, far away from the house to try to lure them away from the house.

*EDIT* Yes I'm aware I made typos, and no, I'm not going to correct them 😀

BTW... if anyone happens to know a good way to get rid of bee's and wasps that would be helpful to me =) We get them every year... wasps make nests in the gutters and on the neighbor's wood fence every year. And this past summer bee's found their way inside the garage and made a HUGE beachball sized hive up in very top of the garage... that was fun to get rid of... we ended up just taking the garden hose and spraying the shyt out of it so it started to fall apart... let them be pissed off all night, then sprayed the crap out of their exposed hive with hornet and wasp killer in the morning, then checked back the next morning and there had to be thousands of dead bee's on the garage floor, and tons of dead larve that had fallen out of the nest... we sprayed a few more times in there to make sure some weren't deep inside the hive and still alive... then we swept up all the dead bee's and put them in a garbage bag and weighed it... there was almost 7 pounds of bee's (and bits of their hive), lol. That was crazy... they keep coming back though... never a nest that big, but they make small ones behind the basketball hoop and in the gutters and under the wood steps by the doorwall in back. Any ideas how to get them to NOT come to our house? =)
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Ants ARE pests... often it has nothing to do with how clean your house is. Yes, the problem CAN be that the house is not very clean and they found a source of food, but that's not always the case, and that still doesn't count as an invitation. When I was real young we had ants in the house for a couple years... they were in bags of flour, pancake mix, bags of sugar, snack foods like chips and cookies, in the toaster, in the dishwasher, in the cat's food dish. Seems as though there was a colony of ants that took up residence right near our house... there were 4 or 5 lines of ants entering the house around the foundation, thank god they never made it upstairs into the bedrooms... wouldn't that be a nice surprised, 5 or 6 hundred ants crawling on you, in your ears, in your hair, in your nose.

ANYWAY... the way we got rid of them is with plain ol' Raid. We sprayed the outside of the house to cut off their entrance... it was that kind that foams up and creates a nice barrier... we went almost all the way around the outside of the house with that... then used a less toxic insect repellant inside (forget what kind, but was supposed to be perfectly find for use in home even around pets and small children) to kill the ants that were already in plain view... then set a bunch of ant traps to lure the ones hiding in cupboards and whatnot. It took 2 summers of this before they stopped coming back... we'd notice small ant hills in the back yard... possibly entrances to their nest or hive, whatever you call it. So we'd soak them down with the outdoor Raid or just water the lawn and flood their nest =) We use ant traps outside too, far away from the house to try to lure them away from the house.

*EDIT* Yes I'm aware I made typos, and no, I'm not going to correct them 😀

BTW... if anyone happens to know a good way to get rid of bee's and wasps that would be helpful to me =) We get them every year... wasps make nests in the gutters and on the neighbor's wood fence every year. And this past summer bee's found their way inside the garage and made a HUGE beachball sized hive up in very top of the garage... that was fun to get rid of... we ended up just taking the garden hose and spraying the shyt out of it so it started to fall apart... let them be pissed off all night, then sprayed the crap out of their exposed hive with hornet and wasp killer in the morning, then checked back the next morning and there had to be thousands of dead bee's on the garage floor, and tons of dead larve that had fallen out of the nest... we sprayed a few more times in there to make sure some weren't deep inside the hive and still alive... then we swept up all the dead bee's and put them in a garbage bag and weighed it... there was almost 7 pounds of bee's (and bits of their hive), lol. That was crazy... they keep coming back though... never a nest that big, but they make small ones behind the basketball hoop and in the gutters and under the wood steps by the doorwall in back. Any ideas how to get them to NOT come to our house? =)
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That would never happen, at least around here. I do realize that different parts of the country have different kinds of ants.

We don't have the agressive hill making kind around here. They're too small to be able to get into packages of food. If they're nesting in the wood of your house then obviously that is a problem that needs to be dealt with. But if they're eating your food, the best thing you can do is quit feeding them.

I guess I have a "they don't hurt me, I don't hurt them" mentality. They don't bother me or anyone else in my family one bit. That's always the way we've combatted them, and it has always worked. My dad is VERY clean though, almost freakishly.. there are never food crumbs left anywhere. So that might be part of it too.

🙂

As for the wasps and hornets.. I really don't think there is anything you can do other than keep spraying the nests. They're a little more mobile than ants. 😉

You have to remember that the ants and wasps were there first. You built on their territory & are surprised when they don't just give up the space willingly? 😉

Wasp nests don't bother me either, as long as they aren't in a place where they will become accidently agitated, like by the basketball hoop.. or somewhere in your home, like the garage.
 
If you remove all of your food that they're getting to they'll stop coming. They don't eat plates. Also, you can go to terro.com and buy some of their liquid traps. if you live in a house you can spray the perimeter with Demon WP or something else with its active ingredients.

Raid is only a patch on the problem. You need to get serious. And seriously - first get rid of the food they're eating and see if they buggar off within a few hours, because without food they get bored.
 
Originally posted by: Eli
I've never understood why people consider ants pests.

They don't bite/sting(well, the kind you find in your house anyway).
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I had Fire ants mysteriously appear in my bedroom closets this past summer and I assure you they DO bite and hurt like hell. Took some doing but I finally got rid of the bastards. I like ants too when they are outside. They are fascinating creatures but I am not endeared to Fire ants who bite me for no reason or carpenter ants. The rest I enjoy watching go about their business.
 
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