My cousin is crying about seeing ants in her house??

Question

She's a teenager and she's really afraid of bugs and so she has carpenter ants in her house and she's crying all the time cause she's scared about them invading her house. Any ideas on killing the ants for good?

Answer 1

Carpenter Ants are workers......they are problably inside the walls or coming in from cracks in the foundation...find the cracks ...look for the ant hills outside ....kill the nest ......stop the invasion of the house.....Ants are not afraid of tears so crying is not a solution....she needs to get some help of her bug phobia.....and then when she sees one she can beat it, step on it, smash it with her shoe....and no more ants......ants will  go back to the colony and say she is not crying any more she has become a ant killer and won't return...

Good luck to your friend ......fear is difficult to face but it can be done.

Answer 2

I had carpenter ants, too.  They keep you up at night!  Crunch, crunch, crunch.  Here's what I did:

1. I bought Advance 375 A carpenter ant bait (see link).  I got the 2-pound size, because I wanted plenty, but your cousin might not need this much.  

2. Next, I had to get it into the walls.  I used a drill and the largest drill bit I had.  I waited and listened to pinpoint where the "crunching" sound was coming from.  Then I drilled into the wall at a 45-degree angle, down.  I made a funnel from paper and poured about a tablespoonful of granules into the wall.  (Again, maybe a teaspoonful would be enough.  I like overkill.)  Taped up the hole.  

3. I placed tiny amounts of the granules in bottle caps anywhere I saw carpenter ants wandering out from baseboards, et cetera.

4. Within 5 days--no more carpenter ants!  They carry the granules back to their nest for them and their colony to eat and it kills them.  It beats tearing out the wall and applying poison.  With that, the ants aren't killed--they just go somewhere else.

Exterminators will basically do what I've outlined, above.  You can do it yourself.  If you do, don't be afraid, the poison can't hurt you if you wear gloves and also wash your hands after.  The Advance bait isn't cheap, but it works.  From the site I gave you the link to, orders over $25 are free.  I don't work for Advance, or the website, by the way.  Good luck!

Answer 3

She's crying.  Wait till she owns a house, then seeing ants will give her reason to cry.

Answer 4

they are called exterminators...naw!! but they do sell some kind of spray product at wal-mart i believe that kills bugs.