Ants!

[laktrash]

read somewhere where dry instant " grits " were used ....

sprinkled around and allowed to be eaten by the ants ....

it's suppose to swell up and burst them once they drink water ?

maybe larger yard ants / not indoor sugar ants ?

anyone ever heard this besides me ?

I've heard cornmeal will do the same thing

[TN Outlaw]

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[jughead]

if they are those large black wood ants i call them slice a cucumber and lay small slices around where u see them and they will be gone in a couple of days. wont work on those little tiny ones though had to use a poison to get rid of them.

[daddyo]

My wife bought some Raid Ant Gel at the market last weekend. I put some around the kitchen light switch (which is where I see them most often). Sunday night the spots of gel were covered with ants. Since Tuesday we have seen one or two at a time, and this morning when I made my coffee I didn't see a single one.

Here's hoping. If it doesn't work, looks like I'll be ordering some Terro.

[Oh Shoot]

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Here's hoping. If it doesn't work, looks like I'll be ordering some Terro.

Ace Hardware has it here.

Sounds like the stuff you used may be 'bout same.

Borax is the actual killer in the Terro.

- OS

[mk19]

If you have kids or pets and don't want to use chemicals, then pour some flour on the ant hill and watch them disappear. Make sure it is fine flour, I hvae used it and to my surprise it works. Apparently the flour particles get stuck to their antenae or or thier mouth and kills them. Also I hear simple green works well.

[K191145]

Terro liquid ant baits/killer at Lowes or Tractor supply.

My sister gave me a couple of packets, she swears by it. I haven't had ants in my house this year but I had a colony in my potting shed, I opened a packet and put a line of liquid on a piece of plastic and put the packet beside it. The ants loved it, a thousand or so were at the line of liquid and I assumed they carried it back to their colony. Anyway, a week later no ants were to be found.

[K191145]

Here's hoping. If it doesn't work, looks like I'll be ordering some Terro.

Didn't see your post, Terro seems to work good.

[Oh Shoot]

Terro liquid ant baits/killer at Lowes or Tractor supply.

My sister gave me a couple of packets, she swears by it. I haven't had ants in my house this year but I had a colony in my potting shed, I opened a packet and put a line of liquid on a piece of plastic and put the packet beside it. The ants loved it, a thousand or so were at the line of liquid and I assumed they carried it back to their colony. Anyway, a week later no ants were to be found.

In my apt, I've had several trails through the years, usually about like your experience, a few days at most just gone. Last infestation, though, I must have used a whole third of a bottle over about 10 days, just kept hitting the same three or four areas, then 6 or 8, with a drop as they ate it up.There might have been a flat million ants over that time that stopped by to slurp, must've tapped into a really big nest outside. Eventually got em, but by then I swear I was starting to feel a little guilty killing such a vast kingdom of any damn thing like that.

I generally try to take care of stuff like this, minor plumbing probs,etc rather than get apt folks involved, just simpler.

- OS

Edited May 5, 2012 by OhShoot

[daddyo]

Looks like the Raid Ant Gel is working. Haven't seen a single ant for two days.