have ants in my house HELP
By acason
@acason (87)
United States
7 responses
@AndreaM76 (1164)
• United States
14 Oct 06
We've had this problem all summer if it's sweet ants then they won't go away till it freezes. We spray constantly but it will only kill one colony at a time.
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@sedel1027 (17846)
• Cupertino, California
14 Oct 06
Once you get ants they are really hard to get rid of. The best thing you can do is call an exterminator.
@LaGitana (277)
• United States
14 Oct 06
Put a plate of food in the bath tub. When they're having their picnic, drown 'em. No, don't really. That gets you bad karma points in Buddha's book. They are beautiful creatures of God, even if you can't see it. I've never had much luck talking to them and giving them an ultimatum. Some of my more new-agey friends do this, but it's never worked for me. It's testy. I don't know your answer, unless you simply don't care about whether they die or not. Then just call the Orkin man.
@ShannaS (557)
• United States
20 Oct 06
DO you have a Dollar Tree nearby? Even a Walmart will do but $Tree is cheaper, we got some of those discs that come eithre 2-4 to a pack and placed them in the infested area. The killed them in no time. It's rare to find something so stinking cheap that actually works but it did. :-)
Also, some of that in-home spray for bugs, I always get the "safe" one to use around kids and pets but it works well too. Also I have heard that if you put chalk, the powdered kind, around the outside of your home, ant's don't like to cross that line. May be an old wive's tale, never really tried it.
Played w/ sidewalk chalk out front before and the ants crossed it so.........?
And a key note, if you have a big ant bed just on the outside of your home, chances are the area of the house there is infested w/ termites, might want to check it out. Ants eat termites, learned that in Orkin School lol
@peaceful (3294)
• United States
20 Oct 06
Mix boric acid with sugar and place it along the trail that the ants use to get in your house. The ants will pick up the sugar/acid mixture and take it back to the colony and it will eventually wipe them all out including the queen.
Please use care in placing this mixture. Keep it out of the reach of children and pets.
One of the reasons why ants will colonize a home is that their scouts have found a food source there. The other is that a fertilised queen probably found her way into your home.





