What's the best method to get rid of ants?

Ants don't care for mint or citrus, cloves or bay leaves, so think orange peel, peppermint tea, lemon juice, ground cloves, etc. If you can plant mint around the foundations of your home, you may deter them from entering. Vinegar has the same acid as citrus, so use it to clean with and ants won't feel welcome. (It probably erases or overpowers the odor trail other ants have left for them to follow.)

Clean bench tops and cupboards down really well, and then wipe down with a clean damp cloth that has a few drops of essential peppermint oil on it, you may need to apply a few drops of oil a couple of times.

Ants hate the smell of it and it is also environmentally friendly, and safe for humans and children, and no residue powders etc to clean up. And the big bonus is that the room smells fresh and minty. I also want to add that you can put the oil on a cotton ball after cleaning and put in the areas you have ants and that should help too...replace once the smell is gone.

I hope this was helpful,Good Luck!!! :)

Terro. It's been around about a century. It's a liquid poison that the ants carry back to all the other ants, including the young 'uns. The small bottle comes in an orange-black-white box. Lasts a long time. You have to put it in the ants' paths. My parents used it successfully for decades, for years I had the same problem you have in the spring, Terro did the trick. Be careful no children or pets can lick up the liquid. If the liquid doesn't stay on those dinky little pasteboard squares that come w/the Terro, I've used pill-bottle tops and shaped little containers from aluminum foil. Best shape is like a rubber raft w/high sides, but missing one end (=the entrance). Use your pinky to mold the foil around.

If the ants won't go in or on the container, I've dipped a toothpick in the Terro and coaxed them in. I've also gently pushed a few to the edge of the stuff, but only ants that are so close that they can smell their own trail when they leave. Don't push them into it; they'll get stuck. Even if they are invading pests, I hate the thought of making one die the equivalent of being put into quicksand.

Terro works against both sugar ants and grease ants. A couple years ago, I heard that there are salt ants. That I can't help you with, altho I've heard putting a solid half-inch to inch-wide line of borax completely around the base of your house prevents any kind of ants getting in. Probably too late this year, and you have to 'repair' the line of borax after rain, time, grass growing up thru it, etc.

Ants can get thru spaces we can barely see. The house where I had my springtime invasions, they came thru a corner of a couple window sills, a space maybe 1/16 of an inch square, and we never could find where they went. They were probably in the walls or the concrete blocks of the basement walls when we bought the house. We could get rid of them each year, and fill in the tiny spaces they had come thru, but the next year they'd chew thru or find another way under-over-around. Two kinds, teensy rusty ants and small black ants. They always headed to the cat-food dishes, which we couldn't cover.

If you can find the exact place the ants are coming from & going back to, a strong vacuum cleaner may give temporary relief. Good luck. I know the aggravation.

For ants on the counter top, wipe down counter top with white vinegar. To prevent ants from coming into the house, or getting into cupboards, sprinkle dried mint or red pepper where they are entering the house and in the cupboards. If you know where the anthills are make a mixture of 50 percent borax (sold in laundry aisle of supermarkets) and 50 percent confectioner's sugar and place near anthill. The ants are attracted to the sugar and carry the fatal borax/sugar combination back to the nest to feed the queen and other ants. Soon all ants will be dead. Do not put this mixture where children and pets can ingest it. To get rid of anthills, pour 3 gallons of boiling water down them. This is best when done when the ants are active and at the surface. Do not do it near flowers or they will die.

Have you tried "TERRO" ? If you haven't (I can't believe you have...because it works so well). Anyway, you can find TERRO at most hardware stores. It comes in a little glass bottle, packed inside a cardboard box. The contents of the bottle are similar in appearance to white Karo syrup. You put some of this thick liquid (about the size of a dime) on a piece of thin cardboard and the ants are attracted to it and will take it back to their colony and this poisons the rest of the ants. I have had excellent results with TERRO and have recommended it to others and they have all had success with it. Good luck!

Get Terro ant killer at Wal Mart; follow instructions intently in the beginning up you will see extra ants, yet after some days none; they convey about the stuff returned to the nest and kill off the colony and the Queen.

Try this web site http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/pmg/pestnotes

Most home remedies do not work, but to get the ants away from an area, set some sugar in a spot and they will go to it and not all around to hunt for food.

I had some in a mobile home in Florida. They move slow enough to kill them, and I think that they live inside the walls.

Good luck.

An exterminator will definitely do the trick...they use a gel in a little capsule thing, or for cracks in cabinetry, they use a puff of special powder that dries ants out.

IN THE MEANTIME....use Windex. That's what my pest guy told me.

You need to figure out what opening they are coming in through (window/door) and then sprinkle paprika powder across the threshold. I think hot chili pepper works as well.

Terro its awesome!!they eat, it take it home ,die and the family eats them and they die,it takes a few days maybe a week but it works!

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