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How do you kill off ants in a house?

amdskip

amdskip

Lifer
They won't stay off of our kitchen counters after using all different kinds of remedies and even a thing you plug into the wall that makes an annoying sound, any ideas? I want them outta here:disgust:
 
Go buy some Sevin dust. Well maybe not since this is indoors. What kind of ants are they? One of my college roommate's dad was an exterminator and he told us to mix some sugar water with amonia and leave it out in bowls for the ants to eat. We did that and after about 2 weeks we never saw an ant again.
 
two pronged attack

the little ant traps around the base boards, under the sink

spray a really good insecticide around the foundation of the house , all the way around, double strength

ants don't live inside the house, their hill is outside, they have to enter the house, if you get the insecticide across their entrance trail, they are cut off
 


<< ants don't live inside the house, their hill is outside, they have to enter the house, if you get the insecticide across their entrance trail, they are cut off >>


Yep and the best thing for that is Sevin dust. Go ahead and get some of the 10% Sevin dust and put it in a trail about 1/4 inch thick around the outside walls of your house.
 


<< ants hate fires... i suggest burning down your house

but if that is too costly the poison sugar water works too >>



Na gust nuke it!
 
I prefer the foot method. I raise my foot and quickly drop it on top of the ants and then twist my foot once it hits the ground. If this method is not effective the Sevin should work well outside.
 
Well... In Sim Ant, the red fire ants always kicked my ass... so just get some red evil ants and let them loose. Once they get rid of the black ants... welllllllll.... gotta go!
 
Try half boric acid and sugar. Less toxic than sevin, so it can be used indoors. Keep pets and kids away from it as it can make them sick.
 
You should call an exterminator. Ants leave a chemical trail where ever they go. If you don't kill them all they will always find there way back in.
 
Flame thrower or call the Orkin man if you have a serious problem.

FYI, ants will avoid chalk. You see a line of ants, draw a line of chalk perpindicular to it and they will not cross it. The fun begins when you draw a chalk circle around an ant.
 
My mother used a product called Terro. I don't know if it's sold anymore. That was 20-30 years ago. A sticky like honey substance that attracts them to feed off of it and then they got stuck and poisoned at the same time. Worked every time!
 
a friend was telling me about a product called Noxout that killed all the ants at his house.. he tried many diff things even a pro exterminator and nothing worked except that
 


<< Get a pet anteater. 🙂 >>



RAID works better. You don't have to constantly clean up after or feed RAID. They can't eat JUST ants, there aren't that many in your house!
 
never heard of sevin dust.. i think we just got some of the ortho or something.. did that last year... dont know if it's the weather or what, but havent had any ant problems since..

can you pick up sevin dust at home depot/lowes?
 
How we did it at my parents house:

Our house is built about 16 inches off the ground on little cement pylon things, as many houses in California are.
We (or, I, or my dad if I wasn't home) could crawl under there w/ a big giant sprayer thing full of malathion. (that always sucked, there was lots of dirt and lots ofd spiders and typically large numbers of ants.
Anyway, we'd leave the whole area under the house damp with malathion, that would usually get them. If there were still more, we'd do it again the next day, until they were dead. Never took more than two or three days, nad they'd be gone for the year.
 
From
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<< My dad tried to kill some fireants with film developing chemicals once. It only made them mad.
So he developed the 'scorched earth, WoMD' method of dealing with them.

First, you buy some smokeless powder. It's the only kind that will work for this, because cellulose in the fibers used to make it look like food-starches to ants.

Anyway, you set a small pile outside a few of their holes, then wait a few days. The ants will up and carry it off as food.
Then you add a few more piles, and wait. After it dissapears, add a few more, wait some more.
After doing this several times, lay a few piles out, then wait only a few hours. When you return, a line of ants will lead from the pile down into the holes.

Then, ignite the half-eaten piles.

The ants, nose-to-tail, carrying the smokeless powder, will act as a fuse. The sight is incredible. It starts off with little puffs from all over the yard as the food-storage bins deep underground explode from the pressure. Then, whistling vents appear at each hole, flinging burning ant bodies up from the ground. Eventually, it all stops. And the ants, all of them, from the lowliest worker up to the queen, are incinerated.

Rather agressive way to deal with the nasty little buggers, IMHO.

And sure, eventually they come back. They always do. But for a while, sometimes months, you have a respite from them.
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Blow them up!
 
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