HELP!! How to get rid of ants in the kitchen? In a natural way?

Question

I know where all the sources are but don't know what to use to kill them. One the the sources are on the side of the counter.

Answer 1

you can use bug spray to spray the holes that the ants come from.

or spray every corner of the outside of your house

Answer 2

I no longer have to do this, but I wanted to share for those who have the problem. I have conquered the ant problem this year!! Keeping ants out of your pet’s dishes and small animals cages

As you will see there are so many uses for what I am going to tell you.  You can keep ants from getting to the fruit you have put in your birds cage, and keep ants from getting into the soft wet litter areas in small animal cages like hamsters or guinea pigs. There is no end to what it can do.  You see, its simple, I use petroleum jelly (Vaseline). I know you have seen the scout ants hunting around your house. They hunt for damp cool areas and for food.  Ants cannot cross over a line of petroleum jelly. They would get stuck, one toe in and the see the cant cross, they don’t even try.  So they won’t be able to get to your pets food or water so therefore won’t be able to bring back the rest of the troops to invade your home!!  A thin line around a trash can, or bird cage legs and base of your pets food or water dish, (apply to sides of dish about 1 inch from the floor).  I use a thin line applied with a q-tip around my guinea pigs cage, she used to get ants in her cage they wanted her fruit all the time… I just tried my tried and true way of keeping ants out of my cat’s dishes and it WORKED GREAT!! I am so happy with this method for the past several years… I used to put my cats food dish in a pie tin of water, which worked great because ants can cross water… a good idea and can be used in a pinch, but I found the food kept falling in the water and making a murky mess and attracted even more ants if I did not change the water in the pie tin few times a day.  

REMEMBER ONE IMPORTANT THING! Keep cages, bowls, etc. from touching the walls by at least one inch so the ants can’t bypass the petroleum jelly and enter the bowl or cage from the wall where it is touching as to avoid the carefully placed petroleum jelly. I even use the petroleum jelly around my trashcans in doors and out.  Keeps ants from there as well!

Answer 3

use some ant spray from walmart or the dollar store

Answer 4

Get some Taro, put it on a small peice of cardboard at the source.  at first you will seee more ants, they take the Taro to the colony and it kills them all.

Answer 5

sprinkle Sweet n Low artifical sweetener near where they come in. They think its sugar and take it back to the nest. But it is really a poison for ants and it wipes out the nest.

Answer 6

baby powder. it disorients them and they go away. put it outside where they are trailing in from and inside. they will be gone in a flash and it will smell nice.