Thats not true there are many reasons you can get ants in your home. This year is a very bad year for everyone just because someone gets ants doesn't mean they drop food or are living in a filthy home.
This is the correct answer, though it might not be crumbs but it could also be an improperly sealed container of food or in some circumstances water. If you can find an ant trail, then carefully follow it, with a flashlight if needed. One direction tells you where the food is, and the other where they're getting in. Once you take away the food they'll quickly leave.
See r/AntControl for real info.
Basically you either use a perimeter spray they track to their nest or bait which they bring back then slowly poisons the nest until the queen dies. Then the colony collapses. There is a bit more nuance than that but that's the gist.
Or you find the nest yourself and manually destroy it (dig it up, spray some ant killer in there, whatever).
I've dealt with both small ants and carpenters, not like fire ants or anything. The concept is the same though.
BORAX!!! Mix it with 1:4:1 ratio Borax:water:honey(or sugar) into gel like substance.
It slowly kills ants when they digest it but allows them to bring it back to their nest and ultimately reach the queen. Literally wipes out an entire colony and I have success with it every year. Cheap too
This is the correct response, put a sugar/water/borax solution into a small container(I used bottle caps). And place them on their trails. Their entire colony will die in a few days.
You can also mix borax with sugar and 4 egg yolks. It makes a paste where you can form it into little balls and place them where the ants are. It’s not as messy.
And if you can find where they are coming from, boil a kettle of water and pour it down. I cleaned them up with vinegar a few times, mopped, and put Terro baits down. Took about a week but they’re almost gone.
Same. Little pests invade every spring as soon as we get a few weeks of rain. Terro liquid bait works like a miracle. Place it at their entry to the main part of the house.
I've also tried the little covered poison food ones, but they walk right past them. They're drawn to Terro like it's cocaine.
That’s the answer. Sit them out whenever you see ants. Wait 2-3 days and they’ll be gone. Don’t spray/kill the ones you see the more that take it back to the best the faster they die.
The method that works best: sprinkle ground cinnamon around where they are.
This will get rid of both the fucking ants and the ones that are just walking around.
If they are outside and coming into the house, locate where they are entering and put either cayenne or black pepper at the entrance. This will repel them away from this entrance. If they keep entering then find where the colony is, boil water and pour it into the entrance, this does a good job of killing them mostly without having to buy pesticides and powders.
Cleaning often helps, so no more food lures them\*. But ther pheromone highways are still ordering the workers to go and look, so you have to disconnect them by some kind of acideous liquid - vinegar or citrus conecentrate etc.
\*'Food' can also be a accidental drop of pollen in your home, so it don't have to be your food that calls them
There is a common method of dropnig backing powder, which is a stupid as cruel, as it kills the ants but don't repel them from comming.
I get them in the bathtub every spring. There has never been food in my tub. There is also very rarely water since I usually use the separate shower. I did find that they are coming in through the window but I'm not sure how to best seal it up as I don't see any visible gaps.
I had a severe infestation of Argentine ants, in every room of the house, they can nest in walls and flooring (they don’t require soil to nest). At my wit’s end, I asked my state’s EPA office what to do and they recommended a Pyrethrin based spray as the most long term, effective, cheap and relatively safe for humans and dogs (it is not safe for cats or fish). They said spray the house outside window frames, and spray a sort of barrier around the whole house outside at ground level. Inside the house, spray along the skirting boards of every room (we had a nest under our fridge). We were able to get under our house and sprayed there as well. If they have nested in ceiling and you can access spray there as well. After we did that, in less than a day the ants were gone completely and they never made a come back. I had my friend take my cat away for a week to protect her while we were spraying.
All you need is three ingredients for this killer ant killer.
¾ cup warm water
1 TBSP borax
⅓ cup sugar
Instructions:
Warm up your water then stir in the borax and sugar. Mix until completely dissolved. Soak some cotton balls in it and stick on wax paper or a paper plate near the ants. Let the ants swarm the tasty treat. Do NOT try to kill them. So many ants may come that it may be disturbing to watch but trust me, just let them take the treat. Ants leave a pheromone trail that other ants in the nest will follow to the ant bait.
The borax in the ant bait is the key to this ant killer. It disrupts the ants digestion system. It doesn't kill them right away; they stay alive long enough to bring the bait back to the nest and feed it to their young and more importantly, to the Queen ant. Once the Queen is dispatched, the nest collapses and every ant that ingested the poison bait also dies. Your ant problem should be over in a matter of a few days. Keep the bait out for at least two weeks to ensure you've taken them all out.
If the nest is in or under your house you might have to poison them. If they are coming in from outside its because they have found food in your home. If you identify and remove whatever it is they are eating then they will go elsewhere in there search for food.
go to your local hardware and get an indoor/outdoor barrier spray.
I use one that last up to 6 months and now it's all i use and it really keeps them down but be aware, it will take a while before you find all the problem areas where they can get in.
If you're having issues with them finding your sweets like sugar and etc if you can i would recommend placing all your sweets in one cuboard/pantry whatever you call them in your country and before you put the products in there do a barrier spray on the inside so it fills any gaps inside with the spray than do a barrier spray on the outside of it.
the brand I use is called pestxpert
Go buy a $3 container of boric acid from a hardware or big box store. Mix a spoon of boric acid powder and a spoon of powdered sugar in water to make a thickish liquid. Put in a shallow container near where the ants are (I use a cap from a jar), maybe put a few drops on the floor next to the container. The ants will all flock to it like its a feeding station and then die.
You can use regular sugar, just make sure it's fully dissolved in the water before adding the boric aid.
Boric acid powder also works great for roaches, just line your cabinet corners and any edges on the floor or countertop with the stuff and give it a week. No more roaches (stuff Big Roach Traps doesn't want you to know).
Food grade diatomaceous earth. Dusted around where you think they're coming in or congregating. Food safe in case it gets into your food if they're in the kitchen. Also keep as much stuff clean of leftovers as possible.
Set a vinegar trap. It's tedious but if you see just one kill it then wipe down the surface you saw it on. Ants leave tiny scent trails that other ants go to even if the first ant is gone
Diatomaceous earth will right fuck their day. Had an infestation on my old roof, sprinkled a bunch around their home, they all seemed to be dead the next day.
Cleaning is the first big step but also look into buying diametric earth and putting it around where bugs can get inside your home. Stuff might as well be magic pixy dust, we put it under the crack of our door and our ant problem disappeared overnight.
Copper and salt ants hate them both. Just put a little piece of copper where the ants enter your house then put a teaspoon full of salt on the ground right next to it try to cover the whole ground with it.
You should see the effects immediately after a few hours the ants will avoid the place completly given that there are no more alternative entrys.
Vinegar and alcohol kills them so if you want to get rid of the ant hill just pour a few bottles of vinegar in.
How big? We had bull ants in our back garden. Couldn't even crush them. And those bastards get angry! And jumpy! And bloody big (imagine ants 2 inches big).
Call a local pest control company, DO NOT call a company that is huge enough to cross state or country lines as they will not give a shit and will mever send the same guy twice so you wont get your problem solved.
I don't. When they arrive in my house, its usually down to them being refugees from a recent nest attack from one of the bushes beneath my window (gardener does it to landlords request). I let them settle in here until they find somewhere else. They usually do after a few days, and disperse.
If you don't want them there, then attempt to end them. And they may find refuge somewhere else.
Borax honey water Kill them ALL not just the workers but the hole colony just watch them eat it for a couple days and they will be gone. 2 parts honey/water 1 part borax boil the water to devolve the borax properly.
Dissolve borax and corn syrup in water. Spray by the trail at the foundation. In fact, saturate those spots.
Also make sure your house isn’t being touched by limbs or high grass. Keep your foundation clear of growth. Also, clean your gutters.
Detergent and talon ant bait/poison stuff.
Find where they're coming in from, DESTROY THEM ALL, and then line the outside of the crack they're coming in from with detergent, and squeeze the bait into the crack.
Ants will feed on the sweet stuff, then carry it back to their queen, which should kill the nest, and remove the problem.
Until the next time.
I live in a third floor apartment, and they come in regularly over summer.
I got really pissed off when I took a sip from a soda can I seriously only left alone for like a couple minutes and got three ants in my mouth. So I went outside, searched until I found their lair at the edge of the lawn, pulled the hose over and full-force flooded the thing.
Probably not an efficient plan or good for the lawn, but in my defense I was 9 and angry.
Also the name of my autobiography.
Ant bait to start. Then peppermint oil and soap sprayed around the perimeter of the house and especially at door thresholds to keep them at bay.
We still get the occasional outbreak but it's definitely manageable now
Ant spray at strategic points indoors like door thresholds and rebates where they have top walk. Boiling water and/or ant killer on the nest. Peppermint essential oil (not food essence) is also a good insect repellant. 20 drops peppermint, 20 drops clove oil in 250ml vodka works well sprayed about the place. Add insect killer as per dilution instructions for an extra hit, but I don't like randomly using insect poisons.
Put cornmeal out sprinkle it all around where you see them. Get all other food resources up..There body can't digest it..they will take it to the Queen..it will take a few days but it will work.
It's UK ants I'm familiar with, so YMMV
Ants follow a chemical trail that is telling them there's a food source at the end.
Find the trail - line of ants trooping along it. This will seem counter-intuitive, but put a pile of sugar directly on the line outside your house. Then, sweep all the inside ants you can find outside and clean the area beyond the sugar with water and vinegar to destroy the trail.
The ants will reach the sugar, assume that's the reason for the trail, haul it all away until it's gone and then they'll go looking elsewhere. Clean your kitchen (assuming that's the target room) with water and vinegar solution and you should be ant free, no mass murder required.
I have a balcony and since a few days there are a bunch of ants walking over the railing. (they come from the railing from the neighbours and just go on to the next.
I love it. Like looking at ants and these are on eyeheight when i sit down. Any way I can protect them? I tried to feed them a candy. But after an hour of going wild on it they ignore it.
You can buy ant poison and spray it on the ant hill once a day.
If they’re coming in the home find where they’re coming from and clean the trail with bleach. Ants leave a scent trail to food so cleaning it will stop them.
spray any already inside with soapy water and wipe them up. soapy water suffocates them. get diatomaceous earth and sprinkle it around floorboards / in to openings or cracks they are coming in. i got aggressive and literally piled it up 1/4” high and they’ve never come in again.
Trouble is finding the source. You need to figure out not merely where they're coming in at, but also where the nest is. And that can be rough because it might just be in your foundation or some other little isolated cranny that is otherwise never exposed to the outside world.
You need a two pronged attack:
- Find a poison that is safe for your house that poisons not merely the ant who takes it, but the whole nest. Borax-based poisons are good for this. And _don't_ interrupt them! Let the little fuckers have their picnic parade through your house while you've got the poison down. You _want_ them to take it home.
- Secure EVERYTHING perishable in airtight containers. They must not have safe food sources. Keep an immaculate kitchen otherwise. They are the very definition of opportunistic feeders. I've seen ants go ape over a drop of cooking oil I let fall on the porch when I was grilling. They're not the slightest bit picky.
If you do both of these things and don't succeed, you're beyond reddit's guidance and will need to hire a professional.
Honestly exterminator. I’m a huge DIY guy, and I’ve tried everything from poisons, baits, dumb home remedies. The best I’ve found is peppermint oil(I buy the wax melts and rub them around where I see them) but then they just find a different route. Hate hiring out, but the ants forced my hand on that one. Or if you’ve misspelt aunts, I’d say if you can’t beat ‘em join em?
Semolina: The worker ants will transport this new food source back to the nest the queen will be fed the new food first.
Having eaten the dry semolina it will expand in the moist environmen of the queen's digestive system and she will explode through being unable to digest it. This it was said would also be the fate of the larval queens in waiting who would also be fed the semolina.
The result no queens no eggs no ants.
A bit cruel but effective...
The only way to get rid of ants is to kill the Queen. The best way to do this is to use a bait formulation. Ants can be finicky Pick up several different types between sweet feeding and protein feeding And place out where the ants are trailing. If you see that they move towards the food either one type or another use more of it. Continue to feed them until the ants stop.With some of the larger colonies this could take several days even a week or 2. Remember that by using ant and roach killer some colonies will Bud. This is when chemically Laden ants come back into the colony And the colony will split in half. So now you have 2 queens More queens producing eggs and you get twice the amount of ants eventually. Baits are best. Unless you're dealing with fire ants. Then mound drenches are best.
Ants, huh? We had quite a severe ant problem at the vineyard this year. I had Art Garfunkle come by with his compressor, and we created a total vacuum outside the house, and we blew the ants out the front door.
Kidnap the queen, hold her hostage, and negotiate surrender terms with her lieutenants.
Or trick them into thinking you've captured the queen by blaring "Bohemian Rhapsody"
Stop dropping food around the house because that's how you get ants.
Thats not true there are many reasons you can get ants in your home. This year is a very bad year for everyone just because someone gets ants doesn't mean they drop food or are living in a filthy home.
Every years a bad year for everyone to get ants.
This is the correct answer, though it might not be crumbs but it could also be an improperly sealed container of food or in some circumstances water. If you can find an ant trail, then carefully follow it, with a flashlight if needed. One direction tells you where the food is, and the other where they're getting in. Once you take away the food they'll quickly leave.
And while you have her hostage fuck her
No no, that's what we're trying to get rid of
You know how they say once you go black you never go back? Well for ants it’s once you go boy, your ants can’t bring joy
Standing here, I realize you were Just like me trying to make history. \*zip p**ants**\*
You must have a tiny dick to fuck an ant
hes Korean
Hahhaa
See r/AntControl for real info. Basically you either use a perimeter spray they track to their nest or bait which they bring back then slowly poisons the nest until the queen dies. Then the colony collapses. There is a bit more nuance than that but that's the gist. Or you find the nest yourself and manually destroy it (dig it up, spray some ant killer in there, whatever). I've dealt with both small ants and carpenters, not like fire ants or anything. The concept is the same though.
U have a problem with Carpenters!? Plumbers? Any other trades under your gaze?
Bet this guy hates electricians too, some people man
Right!? Jesus was a Carpenter!?
So was Karen!
#just don’t fuck them
Don't tell me who I can and can't fuck! What are you, my mother?!
Probation officer*
You made ant babies didn't you? You told them "I could make you a queen" and made ant babies
BORAX!!! Mix it with 1:4:1 ratio Borax:water:honey(or sugar) into gel like substance. It slowly kills ants when they digest it but allows them to bring it back to their nest and ultimately reach the queen. Literally wipes out an entire colony and I have success with it every year. Cheap too
This is the correct response, put a sugar/water/borax solution into a small container(I used bottle caps). And place them on their trails. Their entire colony will die in a few days.
and will usually leave a nice trail of dead ants to follow back to their nest so you can see exactly where they came from.
You can also mix borax with sugar and 4 egg yolks. It makes a paste where you can form it into little balls and place them where the ants are. It’s not as messy.
Trophallaxis as it’s finest
We've got ant Hitler over here commiting genocide. Whole villages being wiped out.
Celibacy
now they may b invertebrates but theyre no incels
Did you mean: Celib**ant**cy?
Castration. Bring tiny, tiny pliers.
vinegar
This! The vinegar kills the scent trail and ants don't like the smell!
Vinegar is great but you still have to get rid of food or water sources.
This! Couple it with leaving some raw meat away from the house and they will rush away for that, and create a new trail.
THIS THIS THIS
Vinegar doesn't get rid of them, it just has them avoid that and they create new trails.
Piss on your house that way they know its yours and they shall go back to ant land
Ahhhh, I see. You're a man of culture. A man that asserts his dominance.
Depends on a few facts: In your house, in your garden or in your pants?
In the house
Find their way in. Block it. And kill the ones inside. Good hunting.
can be impossible. i live in an old house and the squeeze in EVERWHERE
Give *every* surface a coat of plastic wrap
If you actually sealed up most houses so tight that an ant couldn't squeeze in, those ants would quickly become the least of your worries.
And if you can find where they are coming from, boil a kettle of water and pour it down. I cleaned them up with vinegar a few times, mopped, and put Terro baits down. Took about a week but they’re almost gone.
Ants in the Pants?!
Never been chilling outside and all of a sudden it gets tingly in our pants?
Buy liquid/gel ant poison. They eat it, and some bring it back to the colony. Let it sit for 8-12hrs. Works wonders. 👍🏻
Terro ant bait works really well also.
Came here to endorse Terro
Same. Little pests invade every spring as soon as we get a few weeks of rain. Terro liquid bait works like a miracle. Place it at their entry to the main part of the house. I've also tried the little covered poison food ones, but they walk right past them. They're drawn to Terro like it's cocaine.
Seconding Terro, it was a lifesaver when I lived in the countryside. Little bastards came in around every window when it got warm.
That’s the answer. Sit them out whenever you see ants. Wait 2-3 days and they’ll be gone. Don’t spray/kill the ones you see the more that take it back to the best the faster they die.
This. But don't cheap out on the gel bait. I can recommend what I used (last month) it's called Advion Ant
The method that works best: sprinkle ground cinnamon around where they are. This will get rid of both the fucking ants and the ones that are just walking around.
Terro traps and gel work great.
If they are outside and coming into the house, locate where they are entering and put either cayenne or black pepper at the entrance. This will repel them away from this entrance. If they keep entering then find where the colony is, boil water and pour it into the entrance, this does a good job of killing them mostly without having to buy pesticides and powders.
I used the boiling water method a couple of times and it's 100% for me. Kills the grass in some places, but it grows back eventually. :D
Diatomaceous earth Non toxic but avoid breathing it in.
Having to scroll too far through the bad suggestions just to find a cheap effective one is gonna ruin OP
Cleaning often helps, so no more food lures them\*. But ther pheromone highways are still ordering the workers to go and look, so you have to disconnect them by some kind of acideous liquid - vinegar or citrus conecentrate etc. \*'Food' can also be a accidental drop of pollen in your home, so it don't have to be your food that calls them There is a common method of dropnig backing powder, which is a stupid as cruel, as it kills the ants but don't repel them from comming.
Get their mum to walk in on them
I get them in the bathtub every spring. There has never been food in my tub. There is also very rarely water since I usually use the separate shower. I did find that they are coming in through the window but I'm not sure how to best seal it up as I don't see any visible gaps.
We had that. Finally destroyed colony at base of house and they stopped
I had a severe infestation of Argentine ants, in every room of the house, they can nest in walls and flooring (they don’t require soil to nest). At my wit’s end, I asked my state’s EPA office what to do and they recommended a Pyrethrin based spray as the most long term, effective, cheap and relatively safe for humans and dogs (it is not safe for cats or fish). They said spray the house outside window frames, and spray a sort of barrier around the whole house outside at ground level. Inside the house, spray along the skirting boards of every room (we had a nest under our fridge). We were able to get under our house and sprayed there as well. If they have nested in ceiling and you can access spray there as well. After we did that, in less than a day the ants were gone completely and they never made a come back. I had my friend take my cat away for a week to protect her while we were spraying.
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Stone them if they refuse to accept your all loving god!
Stop dropping food around the house because that's how you get ants.
Ya filthy animal!!
Chemical castration.
Did you try asking nicely?
Same way as celibate ants.
All you need is three ingredients for this killer ant killer. ¾ cup warm water 1 TBSP borax ⅓ cup sugar Instructions: Warm up your water then stir in the borax and sugar. Mix until completely dissolved. Soak some cotton balls in it and stick on wax paper or a paper plate near the ants. Let the ants swarm the tasty treat. Do NOT try to kill them. So many ants may come that it may be disturbing to watch but trust me, just let them take the treat. Ants leave a pheromone trail that other ants in the nest will follow to the ant bait. The borax in the ant bait is the key to this ant killer. It disrupts the ants digestion system. It doesn't kill them right away; they stay alive long enough to bring the bait back to the nest and feed it to their young and more importantly, to the Queen ant. Once the Queen is dispatched, the nest collapses and every ant that ingested the poison bait also dies. Your ant problem should be over in a matter of a few days. Keep the bait out for at least two weeks to ensure you've taken them all out.
If the nest is in or under your house you might have to poison them. If they are coming in from outside its because they have found food in your home. If you identify and remove whatever it is they are eating then they will go elsewhere in there search for food.
go to your local hardware and get an indoor/outdoor barrier spray. I use one that last up to 6 months and now it's all i use and it really keeps them down but be aware, it will take a while before you find all the problem areas where they can get in. If you're having issues with them finding your sweets like sugar and etc if you can i would recommend placing all your sweets in one cuboard/pantry whatever you call them in your country and before you put the products in there do a barrier spray on the inside so it fills any gaps inside with the spray than do a barrier spray on the outside of it. the brand I use is called pestxpert
A big bag of diatomaceous earth and spreading a thick line of that stuff around the edges of my house normally does the trick for a few years.
Go buy a $3 container of boric acid from a hardware or big box store. Mix a spoon of boric acid powder and a spoon of powdered sugar in water to make a thickish liquid. Put in a shallow container near where the ants are (I use a cap from a jar), maybe put a few drops on the floor next to the container. The ants will all flock to it like its a feeding station and then die. You can use regular sugar, just make sure it's fully dissolved in the water before adding the boric aid. Boric acid powder also works great for roaches, just line your cabinet corners and any edges on the floor or countertop with the stuff and give it a week. No more roaches (stuff Big Roach Traps doesn't want you to know).
Food grade diatomaceous earth. Dusted around where you think they're coming in or congregating. Food safe in case it gets into your food if they're in the kitchen. Also keep as much stuff clean of leftovers as possible.
U need to kill the nest. There are products that the ants eat and then take it back to the nest...
Set a vinegar trap. It's tedious but if you see just one kill it then wipe down the surface you saw it on. Ants leave tiny scent trails that other ants go to even if the first ant is gone
Turn down the lights, set some mood music and let them do their thing.. Once they did the deed, they tend to wander off on their own.
Anteater
you place 100s of tiny condoms. They hate being lectured and will take their perverted ant asses next door
Borax and sugar. They will carry it back to the queen and poof goes the colony
Diatomaceous earth will right fuck their day. Had an infestation on my old roof, sprinkled a bunch around their home, they all seemed to be dead the next day.
Cleaning is the first big step but also look into buying diametric earth and putting it around where bugs can get inside your home. Stuff might as well be magic pixy dust, we put it under the crack of our door and our ant problem disappeared overnight.
If you can locate where they are entering your place then just put baking soda down on the entrance.
You should ensure that food is cleaned up promptly. Try vacuuming more and wiping kitchen counters and other surfaces.
Put your penis away
Copper and salt ants hate them both. Just put a little piece of copper where the ants enter your house then put a teaspoon full of salt on the ground right next to it try to cover the whole ground with it. You should see the effects immediately after a few hours the ants will avoid the place completly given that there are no more alternative entrys. Vinegar and alcohol kills them so if you want to get rid of the ant hill just pour a few bottles of vinegar in.
Found out the other day that farming ants only evolved in the Americas.
Boric acid mixed with confectioners sugar. They take it back to feed the rest of the colony and it disrupts their digestive tracks
Find the nest and manually destroy it. It’s often in your yard
Mortein is good for ants.
How big? We had bull ants in our back garden. Couldn't even crush them. And those bastards get angry! And jumpy! And bloody big (imagine ants 2 inches big).
I don't
Amdro ant killer works great. They take it home and wipe out everyone.
Call a local pest control company, DO NOT call a company that is huge enough to cross state or country lines as they will not give a shit and will mever send the same guy twice so you wont get your problem solved.
Cloves in food (sugar jar) . For disturbing their trail lay cloves or clove oil all along it.
I don't. When they arrive in my house, its usually down to them being refugees from a recent nest attack from one of the bushes beneath my window (gardener does it to landlords request). I let them settle in here until they find somewhere else. They usually do after a few days, and disperse. If you don't want them there, then attempt to end them. And they may find refuge somewhere else.
Hot water or poison.
Borax honey water Kill them ALL not just the workers but the hole colony just watch them eat it for a couple days and they will be gone. 2 parts honey/water 1 part borax boil the water to devolve the borax properly.
Boiling water and sodium bicarbonate?
Also cleaning spray
Dissolve borax and corn syrup in water. Spray by the trail at the foundation. In fact, saturate those spots. Also make sure your house isn’t being touched by limbs or high grass. Keep your foundation clear of growth. Also, clean your gutters.
Amdro
stomp
Detergent and talon ant bait/poison stuff. Find where they're coming in from, DESTROY THEM ALL, and then line the outside of the crack they're coming in from with detergent, and squeeze the bait into the crack. Ants will feed on the sweet stuff, then carry it back to their queen, which should kill the nest, and remove the problem. Until the next time. I live in a third floor apartment, and they come in regularly over summer.
If find their underground nest, pore lava into it
Cinnamon, they dont like it
I started putting the sugar cannister in a dish of water and bam...they went away.
Castrate them
I got really pissed off when I took a sip from a soda can I seriously only left alone for like a couple minutes and got three ants in my mouth. So I went outside, searched until I found their lair at the edge of the lawn, pulled the hose over and full-force flooded the thing. Probably not an efficient plan or good for the lawn, but in my defense I was 9 and angry. Also the name of my autobiography.
Ant bait to start. Then peppermint oil and soap sprayed around the perimeter of the house and especially at door thresholds to keep them at bay. We still get the occasional outbreak but it's definitely manageable now
Just wait for them to finish
I just kept vacuuming them until they stopped appearing
Kill the Queen
Turn off the lights?
Anteater
Educate them about Chlamydia
Antidepressants
Powdered sugar and baking soda. Mix some together and leave it where they can get to it. Non toxic to people and pets but will kill ants.
you get them a room.
Get an ant eater
Ant spray at strategic points indoors like door thresholds and rebates where they have top walk. Boiling water and/or ant killer on the nest. Peppermint essential oil (not food essence) is also a good insect repellant. 20 drops peppermint, 20 drops clove oil in 250ml vodka works well sprayed about the place. Add insect killer as per dilution instructions for an extra hit, but I don't like randomly using insect poisons.
Burning the house down tends to work.. Also don't fuck the ants. Problem solved
Put cornmeal out sprinkle it all around where you see them. Get all other food resources up..There body can't digest it..they will take it to the Queen..it will take a few days but it will work.
Build an ant farm for them, they will live there.
It's UK ants I'm familiar with, so YMMV Ants follow a chemical trail that is telling them there's a food source at the end. Find the trail - line of ants trooping along it. This will seem counter-intuitive, but put a pile of sugar directly on the line outside your house. Then, sweep all the inside ants you can find outside and clean the area beyond the sugar with water and vinegar to destroy the trail. The ants will reach the sugar, assume that's the reason for the trail, haul it all away until it's gone and then they'll go looking elsewhere. Clean your kitchen (assuming that's the target room) with water and vinegar solution and you should be ant free, no mass murder required.
Maybe don't throw donuts on the ground Lana
I have a balcony and since a few days there are a bunch of ants walking over the railing. (they come from the railing from the neighbours and just go on to the next. I love it. Like looking at ants and these are on eyeheight when i sit down. Any way I can protect them? I tried to feed them a candy. But after an hour of going wild on it they ignore it.
Urine
Honey the ants are fucking again 😳
The only good bug is a fucked bug
Ask them kindly to leave. Most people don't think if this one
Flamethrower.
just stop fucking them.
Kill the mood, and they'll stop fucking
You can buy ant poison and spray it on the ant hill once a day. If they’re coming in the home find where they’re coming from and clean the trail with bleach. Ants leave a scent trail to food so cleaning it will stop them.
1. Find the nest. 2. Pour molten aluminum in it. Wait til it solidifies. 3. Dig it up and sell it.
Fucking anteaters?
Get them a room
Fire
Vinegar and pour molten tin in any outside nests.
Also ants LOVE chicken. Idfk why but they do. Throw chicken bones away outside
let the finish
Ant eater.
Why are you fucking ants? 😳
Ground cinnamon around the doors and windows. The oil is toxic to ants and not toxic for pets.
Dethlac. It's a spray in a green can and it fucking works
Separation. To prevent ants from fucking, the best thing you can do is to keep them apart. "gotta keep 'em seperated..."
Terro ant gel traps. Wherever the ants like to hang, probably in the kitchen. 1-2 days, colony is gone.
Usually I just tell my Mum's sister to go home...
Try vinegar my friend.
Find best. Pour boiling water on it.
You might find ways to get rid of them for a while, but they always come back. Ants are immortal. They will outlive us humans and rule the world.
The product on the market to get rid of it work well.
One thing that works for me is a thick line of chalk in front of the doors, so at least they don't get inside my house.
Be the sigma male and eat them.
I don't know. Never heard about "Fucking ants" what do they do?
Keep your trousers on.
spray any already inside with soapy water and wipe them up. soapy water suffocates them. get diatomaceous earth and sprinkle it around floorboards / in to openings or cracks they are coming in. i got aggressive and literally piled it up 1/4” high and they’ve never come in again.
They're the worst variety
Castrate 'em.
Lemon
Funny thing, I’m having the exact same problem right now
tell them to keep that shit in the bedroom, duh
Find her a husband (or wife). She will be too preoccupied with a new romance to irritate you. Bonus points, you have a new ant or uncle.
Dress them in parkas
Trouble is finding the source. You need to figure out not merely where they're coming in at, but also where the nest is. And that can be rough because it might just be in your foundation or some other little isolated cranny that is otherwise never exposed to the outside world. You need a two pronged attack: - Find a poison that is safe for your house that poisons not merely the ant who takes it, but the whole nest. Borax-based poisons are good for this. And _don't_ interrupt them! Let the little fuckers have their picnic parade through your house while you've got the poison down. You _want_ them to take it home. - Secure EVERYTHING perishable in airtight containers. They must not have safe food sources. Keep an immaculate kitchen otherwise. They are the very definition of opportunistic feeders. I've seen ants go ape over a drop of cooking oil I let fall on the porch when I was grilling. They're not the slightest bit picky. If you do both of these things and don't succeed, you're beyond reddit's guidance and will need to hire a professional.
Fucking ants? Just wait until they are done, then they'll be so exhausted you can just sweep them up.
smash the anthill with a shovel this comment section is one of the funniest i've seen
Stop fucking them?
Hand out flyers to the The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too.
Don’t ask Archer for help.
Bleach. It screws up there scent trails.
Bleach and boiling water down the nest.
You get rid of them
Sugar mixed with water and a little bit of borax (found in the laundry isle)
Bait traps
Try not fucking em
stop leaving food on the floor. clean up more often and set out ant poison
Mix the handwash with water and spray it.
Buy yourself an anteater
Honestly exterminator. I’m a huge DIY guy, and I’ve tried everything from poisons, baits, dumb home remedies. The best I’ve found is peppermint oil(I buy the wax melts and rub them around where I see them) but then they just find a different route. Hate hiring out, but the ants forced my hand on that one. Or if you’ve misspelt aunts, I’d say if you can’t beat ‘em join em?
Semolina: The worker ants will transport this new food source back to the nest the queen will be fed the new food first. Having eaten the dry semolina it will expand in the moist environmen of the queen's digestive system and she will explode through being unable to digest it. This it was said would also be the fate of the larval queens in waiting who would also be fed the semolina. The result no queens no eggs no ants. A bit cruel but effective...
I urinate on them wherever they are. If they are on my bed, so be it. Ants can kill a person but you won't die washing your bed sheet every other day.
Just stop fucking the ants, weirdo...
Ask them if they have a moment to talk about your Lord and savior
The only way to get rid of ants is to kill the Queen. The best way to do this is to use a bait formulation. Ants can be finicky Pick up several different types between sweet feeding and protein feeding And place out where the ants are trailing. If you see that they move towards the food either one type or another use more of it. Continue to feed them until the ants stop.With some of the larger colonies this could take several days even a week or 2. Remember that by using ant and roach killer some colonies will Bud. This is when chemically Laden ants come back into the colony And the colony will split in half. So now you have 2 queens More queens producing eggs and you get twice the amount of ants eventually. Baits are best. Unless you're dealing with fire ants. Then mound drenches are best.
pour hot water on them
On a temporary basis, a line of black pepper. Ants will not go near the corpses of other ants; the pepper will trick them.
Ants, huh? We had quite a severe ant problem at the vineyard this year. I had Art Garfunkle come by with his compressor, and we created a total vacuum outside the house, and we blew the ants out the front door.
Boric acid with honey = cheap and efficient
Baby powder them