How to get rid of ants

Question

How to get rid of ants

Answer 1

u could cal an exterminator and ask for a gel. its like brown and he put it in corners. the ants would eat it and bring it bac to the nest and then it kils them.

Answer 2

Go to home depot and buy Grant's Ant Stakes.  Starts working in a couple of hours, and in a couple of days no more ants.  I think six bucks for a ten pack.

Answer 3

For outside use and especially on ant mounds, I highly recommend Amdro.  It works within a few days and it kills the Queen and her mound.  For indoor use, I highly recommend Ortho Max Home Defense.  I spray it around the base of my walls inside and outside.  The good thing about Home Defense is that it kills all other bugs to.  Plus, most Wal-Marts and hardware stores carry indoor versions of ant bait.

Happy hunting.

Answer 4

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 5

If they're outside, they don't need to be gotten rid of. That's where they live, and they are an important part of the natural world and ecosystem.

If they are inside, feel free to rid your home of them.

Here's a list of great documents on controlling pests:

http://www.hgic.umd.edu/content/onlinepu...