spray them piss ants down!
By SomeCowgirl
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
United States
July 19, 2012 2:13pm CST
I have a spray bottle of vinegar at the ready! It's helped keep the ant problem we've been having down. It's horrible the masses that we see sometimes, but they keep coming back no matter how we clean. I've been cleaning and I have a spray bottle of vinegar and some spare sponges. I'm going to start soaking the sponges in vinegar and wiping everything down with it. That should keep some of the pesties away.
What's your natural home remedy for ants?
6 responses
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
20 Jul 12
I consider myself to be lucky that we don't have the piss ant problem in our home that many other people around here have to deal with. However, we do tend to have a lot of fruit flies that really like to take up residence in our house from the time that it starts to get warm in the spring.
I read somewhere that if you set out little bowls of apple cider vinegar with a couple drops of dish detergent mixed into it that it will help to get rid of the problem, so that is what I've been doing here and it really does seem to be working.
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
20 Jul 12
I wonder why it has to be apple cider vinegar, then I thought 'wait.. apple.. fruit fries duh SCG! lol'.
Well I am glad you don't have the ant problem and I bet the flies are a lot easier to deal with but those flies can be even more pesky then the ants. Luckily we've not had fly problems here. One or two but they've not been here since the spring time.
@froggieslover (3069)
• United States
20 Jul 12
The past few summers we have had a problem with ants on our back porch so we went and bought the ant spray but the would just be there the next morning we finally ended up using a mix of salt and cinnamon and laid it along the edge of the porch and they didn't seem to be there the rest of the summer but this summer they came back and that remedie didn't work, we finally figured out that it was the rug we had and since we got rid of that they have been back.
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
20 Jul 12
They have or haven't been back? Did you mean haven't?
I read online that sometimes remedies used one summer doesn't help the next go around with them, it's as if they become immune. I suppose those that "scurry" away somehow carry back the scent of whatever was used and all the other ants become immune to it.
The vinegar approach is supposed to kill the scent of the trails the others have made or that they've made back and forth. It seems to help, I used vinegar and all I see are the itty bitty babies, I've started with salt and I don't even see the babies anymore.
I do still see a few in other parts of the house I haven't sprayed but that's easily remedied.
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
20 Jul 12
I've heard of cinnamon working as well, and even salt. I used salt too. Vinegar doesn't bother me all that much and my grandmother LOOOVES the smell lol so it's not so much a bother for any of us. As long as it keeps working. I've heard that ants can become immune.
@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
20 Jul 12
I've never heard of doing that but we have plenty of straws. I doubt boric acid is much and mint jelly either! Thanks for the tip!
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@JenInTN (27514)
• United States
20 Jul 12
Get em girl! It is certainly that time of year. I am going to use your natural remedy for ants if I start to see them. I usually get that stuff you buy at the hardware store. Not natural and probably not good. Now for gnats..I use a small cup of sugar water. The sugar draws them in and the water drowns them. @anklesmash (1412)
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19 Jul 12
I had never heard of vingar being used as a way to keep ants out,i wish i had heard that method when we lived in our old house as every year our kitchen was plagued by ants and nothing we tried to keep them out ever worked.Im guessing you use white vinegar otherwise the smell would be pretty strong.The only uses for vinegar apart for food that i had heard were all cleaning .A good use i know is for cleaning the inside of the cars windscreen you have to be careful as to what you clean your car windscreen with in case you obscure your view which can cause an accident but vinegar gives a brilliant non stick clean.
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@SomeCowgirl (32189)
• United States
19 Jul 12
I use white distilled vinegar. It is supposed to take the scent away from the ants. I also just put salt outside and in in certain spots, we'll see how that does. Yes I've heard of vinegar for cleaning mostly. Of course it's used in recipes, and making cucumbers into pickles, lol.
I've heard of vinegar being used in replacement of a window cleaner for just windows before, but not sure I had fo the windshield on the car.
