How to eradicate house ants?

[Nadia]

Hello

I have house ants every summer.  I spray fly killer on them.  It stops them  for a while, but they come back in summer.  What shall I do?  :( >:(

Thanks
Nadia

[Nadia]

[tim]

We always use Nippon Ant Killer - puff a thin trail of it all around the room extremities - & outside the house. One dose usually sufices.

No point in spraying them.

[Nadia]

We always use Nippon Ant Killer - puff a thin trail of it all around the room extremities - & outside the house. One dose usually sufices.

No point in spraying them.

Thanks Tim, I shall do that.

Regards
Nadia

[manicscousers]

or borax and icing sugar, mix in a saucer, put somewhere safe, does the same  :)

[Nadia]

or borax and icing sugar, mix in a saucer, put somewhere safe, does the same  :)

Thanks manics.  I never had borax before !!

[caroline7758]

Nippon also do an "Ant control system" which has a little bait station which you put near the area affected and just leave it. We've used this for the first time this year and not seen an ant inside since.

[manicscousers]

or borax and icing sugar, mix in a saucer, put somewhere safe, does the same  :)

Thanks manics.  I never had borax before !!

comes in a box from the chemist, Ray's mum's way of controlling them  ;D

[Old bird]

How about a flame gun! 

No - sorry being sillly now!

Old Bird

;D

[Pumper]

How about a flame gun! 

No - sorry being sillly now!

Old Bird

;D

Nope - Not so silly, but outside rather than indoors  ::) I have a flame gun (one of those jobbies from Lidl with a 3 foot tube). I pushed it right up aganst the crack between the wall and the path where ants were piling out of, and blew flames down inside. Not a single ant since.  Next door's probably got the pesky lil critters now:D

Mind you, before that I used nematodes and that was seriously good after about 4 treatments.

[lolabelle]

 ants apparently don't like mint a colleague puts a mint plant inside and out to deter them ::)

[manicscousers]

trouble is, according to Ray's mum (89,been fighting ants for 60 years), if you persecute them outside, they go indoors  :)

[froglets]

I use the spray in a red can from RAID.  I know, not good for me or the environment, but it's sandy soil here & they've probably been around here longer than our Victorian terrace, but if I don't catch the ones on exploratory duty, I can come down the next morning to the furniture parading down the hall towards the door ( & they always find my mum's gorgeous home made jam)   :(

[Robert_Brenchley]

A bit of jam mixed with borax is good, put underneath a stone or something so the rain doesn't get onit or the bees eat it. They take it back to the nest and feed the other ants with it, then they all die.

[Nadia]

A bit of jam mixed with borax is good, put underneath a stone or something so the rain doesn't get onit or the bees eat it. They take it back to the nest and feed the other ants with it, then they all die.

Thanks Robert.  They are in the house, so rain would not be a problem.

Regards   :) :)

[shirlton]

I used lavender oil last year and it seemed to work

[Nadia]

I used lavender oil last year and it seemed to work

That is interesting Shirlton !!  Never heard about it !!

Nadia

[PurpleHeather]

That nippon gel, in a tube. The ants take it back to the nest and the whole colony goes to sleep. For ever.

You may need to put a little down every night, in the same place for a few days for them. But it does clear the nest.

Don't squash them while you have poisons out. The sneaky blighters go somewhere else once they know that the trail is dangerous to walk.

[posie]

I use a spray called Deathlac - you spray it in a strip on the floor or wall where they're coming in and bingo no more ants!  Once it dries it's non-harmful to pets or kids.

[Nadia]

I use a spray called Deathlac - you spray it in a strip on the floor or wall where they're coming in and bingo no more ants!  Once it dries it's non-harmful to pets or kids.

Thanks Posie I shall try that.

[cambourne7]

Have you found the nest, MIL had them in her bed room wall and they were everywhere when we pulled the skirting board there was just black underneath there was so many and had to get something injected into the wall to kill them. After 2 years and 6 treatments the ants are gone.