Question

We came home to ants in our kitchen! Trap and powder down. To early for ants? How to stop them?  

Answer 1

Lavender outside my front door. It has helped. We still have the ant wars every year. But not as bad as the first year living here

Answer 2

Talcum powder works too

Answer 3

Also that diatomaceous Earth stuff works too x

Comments

@orvilleorwell750 and food grade DE os safe for kids and pets

Answer 4

Bicarbonate of soda and icing sugar mix x

Answer 5

Find where they're coming in on the outside and put something sweet there.  

Answer 6

You can also defend your home with scents and substances that ants don't like. Consider some combination of vinegar, peppermint oil, cinnamon, black pepper, cayenne pepper, whole cloves, and bay leaves. Be careful where you place your deterrents: keep peppers and spicy things away from curious pets and children.  

Answer 7

Do you have pets? Just be careful of using those if you do. I have ants & have found talcum powder sends them packing to where they came from!  

Answer 8

Play @quitclaim Blunt music 24/71234

Answer 9

Washing up liquid

Answer 10

Hire an ant eater for the weekend. Job done.  

Answer 11

Dont need to they are harmless and clean except for vampire ants

Comments

Not nice to have your home over run with ants.  

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@endrin I really dont mind for above reasons

Answer 12

I have them to since them about two weeks ago

Answer 13

Hi sprinkle cinnamon around it destroys there sent trail hence they leave 100%

Answer 14

Anything in large numbers is not nice. My had them in her bungalow. They were crawling all over the place; in food cupboards, in her bed, all over the place. They even managed to create a hole in the wall where they made a run.  

Answer 15

Johnson baby powder they don't like

Answer 16

I used to put salt around the door and window frames.  

Answer 17

I sprinkle this on the floor around my front door (which is where my ants were coming in). It works wonders. Apparently they take it back to their nest as food, but it breaks down their exo-skeleton and kills them.  

Answer 18

Talcum powder along the threshold works quite well.  

Answer 19

Ant houses, you wont see anotherone

Answer 20

White vinegar

Answer 21

Ant stop from Wilko £4 for two bait stations. Brilliant stuff.  

Answer 22

A quick "ant" joke: How can you tell the difference between male and female ants? Put them in the water. if it sinks, it's a girl ant. If it floats, it's a boy ---! Tadum. I'll get my coat!  

Answer 23

My mum's house was built on a nest. We tried everything. Jay's fluid mixed in a bucket of hot water and washing the floors with this finally did the trick. I know it stinks. And you need to be careful if you have cats and dogs. But it works. I do this on my patio every year too. We had loads of them on it and comming through the door when we moved here. It's reall helped keep them away from the house.  

Answer 24

White sugar, I had hundreds in my kitchen once. they are attracted to it but it will poison them.  

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@depute Dont u have to mix it with bicarbonate of soda, or is it baking powder

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@pimental8200 nope just sugar

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Do you mean standard granulated sugar?  

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Normal sugar will just make more of them come.  

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@honeyhoneybee yes it works trust me never had another one since. better still if you can find the nest just pour over it  

Answer 25

You need to find where they are coming in we had this problem and found them in an inner wall

Answer 26

Ants already . I’m dreading it

Answer 27

Ants don't like vinegar

Answer 28

We get ants all year but lots more in summer.  

Answer 29

Sprinkle ant powder around the outside and inside the house unless u know where they coming in then pour hot water down

Answer 30

Forget the powders, get a can or 2 of raid kills them dead.  

Answer 31

Nippon the worker ants take the poison back to the nest killing all

Answer 32

Kills all crawly creeps and slugs and non toxic and fleas too

Answer 33

We had them last year tried all the things suggested. they never took it back to nest because they died before getting back there so they just kept coming. we ended up taking the skirting boards off in one room. there was 3 baby nests. then we found the main nests under the patio steps and by god the nests were 3ft wide by 1ft high

Answer 34

You can get little black traps they go in end of them

Answer 35

Borax in water it’s an antiseptic so safe to use inside Xx

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I used to put Borax on my head and rinse off as a conditioner.  

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@endrin it’s what they use in food shops when they get ants it also good for cradle cap Xx

Answer 36

Tried everything, over run the house, ended up having bug man in

Answer 37

Was there any food left out? Fruit?  

Answer 38

Go get some ant bait stations