I am in N.C. amd have a re-occuring problem with carpenter and tiny "sugar" ants. I don't want to hire an exterminator because -I think they are environmentally unsafe and do not like the fact that they kill ants and other living creatures. I just want the ants diverted safely to another area where they wont bother me and I won't interfere with their life. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get rid of ants or what to use besides an exterminator. Any advise could greatly help.Feel free to pm me qith any questions/comments! Thankz
This may not fit ecologically, but..... Repeatedly pour either boiling water or used motor oil down ant holes. They will move to get away from it.
You know, you're really going to have to kill them to get rid of them. Try using those Ant Hotel things.
If your looking for something ecological and then buy some grits from any old store. Put the grits out near the ants. The workers will take the grits down to the queen. They explode when the grits swell in their stomach. No queen, no anthills.
if you pay me $20 dollars i will smoke them out for u!! ill get those little guys so high they wont be able to find the anthill
I've gotta tell you that I've had a line of grits on my kitchen counter for months...and I still have a line of ants to go with it. They just walk over it and around it on their way to my sink. The best thing I've found is caulking (or clay or newspaper or whatever else you can shove in the cracks they come through)...eventually you might block all their entrances. Good Luck. Did ya know that the weight of the amount of ants on earth excedes the weight of the amount of people on the entire earth. Imagine if they ever declared war on us...we'd lose.
yeah- I got some of that.Terro-but it works for a little time-gotta keep re-applying it though*(when they reappear)..and let's hope the ants will NEVER declare war on us...that would be a bitch.:&
They seem to dislike baking powder as well.. don't know if you'll get rid of them that way since yours seem to be kinda persistent (you must live at a nice place!) but you can at least use it to divert them.. good luck!
Greetings, I've found the best way is to make friends with them. Find where they are coming in. Place a bananna peel or some tasty sugary fruit compost in the bush, or place, they are coming from. Stop killing them. Seems like the more you try to kill, control or push away another part of nature the more it comes back to meet you. Just try this simple offering and of course make sure not to leave peanut-butter, honey or other trace smells on the counter. Store these in a remote cabinet. Namaste
one summer they kept coming through a crack near the front door. but once i poored some clorox infornt of the crack they wouldn't come through it. follow the ant back to the crack. good luck
clorox is also GREAT for Cave (Camelback) cricket infestations. I don't mind the little carpenter ants so much, but in South GA we had BAD fire-ant problems. WHAT EVER YOU DO, DON'T POUR GAS ON THEIR HILL!!! I did that, and it was bad... I probably poured like a half liter of gas or so, maybe a little more (I was 12 and a child of the Grunge) and then I made some napalm with a five gallon bucket and some styrofoam(sp?) and put it on the end of one of my dad's turkey hunting arrows. Then I grabbed my old bow and the napalm coated arrow, set it on fire, and while standing like 20-30 yards away, I shot the hill and thought that it would sink the gas through the little tunnels, burning all the little devils that dwelled inside. Man, that was a great theory, but in reality all the pressure from the gas that had by that point seeped deep into the earth, well, it basically made a bigass bomb/landmine that blew LIVE and DEAD fire-ants all over me and the yard... and then the fire in the ground kept burning for about a minute or two later... just dirt and mud... and a bigass flame. It looked cool to me as a 12 year old, but this being the least of my dumbass fire expirements gone wrong, I really am thankful to be alive. There is a tribe in Africa where they live with these ants that really are blamed for the disappearance of people and large animals. Those are the Siafu of Kenya, I believe... they are allowed to do whatever they want because man... you mess with those guys one minute, and you don't exist the next... Here's a link to a site for nontoxic ways to control ants though... http://www.getipm.com/thebestcontrol/bugstop/control_ant.htm Hope that helps some! Peace
There is this stuff call Sol U Mel sold through a company called Melaleacu (likely mispelled) and Ants hate it. It is safe to put on pets, to breath and its a cleaner too. I sprayed it around the outer edges of my home and the little buggers wont cross it and left.
