Ants everywhere in the kitchen please help!!!?

Question

There are small black ants everywhere in the kitchen but for some reason they won't go on the carpet. They only stay in the kitchen and they are in every corner. They are popping up from under the walls. What is a good home remedie that is easy to use/make. Thanks!

Answer 1

There is a 5 dollar solution to this problem. I get ants in my apartment every year. I use ant traps that they sell in hardware stores or Home Depot Walmart etc etc. You put them where ever they are walking back and forth - meaning preferably in their path and they go into the trap take some bait and bring it back to their nest and all the ants eat the poison bait and die in their nest. No mess and very effective.

For 5 dollars you get 6 traps and there are 4 or 5 manufacturers of these ant traps just ask the guy in the hardware store to recommend one. They know which one works the best. They can take up to a week to work.

I should warn you to keep them away from pets especially dogs that like to put everything in their mouths. And not to mention always keep things that contain poison out of reach of children. A great spot to place one or two is slide it about a foot deep under your refrigerator. I have  a dog and I make sure he can't touch the traps.

Answer 2

seal all cracks in the home -look carefully in cupboards, along windows, at the foundation, etc.

Answer 3

Just head to your spice rack!  Use a mix of cinnamon and sugar. The ants will pick up the sugar, along with the cinnamon, and take it back to their queen. Ants can’t digest cinnamon and once the queen dies from not being able to digest the cinnamon the colony will die without her.

Answer 4

Place cucumber peelings along their pathway and they wont cross it, thats if you can find where they are entering the house from outside

Answer 5

I have this problem too. You can go to Lowes and buy some "Terro" ant killer. This is stuff that the ants are drawn to (so prepare for short-term increase) but they take it to their home and it kills them all. I also heard (and it appears to have worked when I tried it this year) that crushed Red cajun pepper has the same effect. Since both of these destroy the whole nest and not just one at a time, it's effective in the long run.

Answer 6

do paste control.. they give u best & permanant solution for ants.