How to get rid of ants without poison or going to the store.?

Question

Theres these nasty ants that come in my house, I kill about 100 at the kitchen table, and the colony has 100 to replace it! I put a small container with food in it for ease of capture, and I sprayed the hole with misquito repellant, they still come!

Answer 1

I have seen Wrigley's spearmint and double mint gum used as an ant repellent as ants hate mint .....put it across their trails and try to find where they are coming from and bait there also.  It seems to me peppermint oil would work too.

Answer 2

i would say find their nest and kill the queen ant. the ants will not be able to reproduce without their queen.

Answer 3

use baby powder or cinnamon and sprinkle around window sills and doors etc...

Answer 4

Borax is cheap, available in the detergent section of your local grocery and will discourage ants.

Answer 5

Raid!

Answer 6

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.