Little. Black. Ants!!!

HELP! We've got these little buggers coming into the kitchen. We've scrubbed everything, put all packages of food (cereals and breads, etc.) into zip bags and treated the perimeter of the house, outside, with Ortho Home Defense granules. In previous years, this has worked. Not this year. Do any of you have any suggestions on different pesticides that have worked for you?

Thanks!

think they are the ants that spread the pollen to peeohknees flowers....in college they said to use baking soda, ants are mostly acid and they will eat it thinking it is sugar and explode. Aw better living through chemistry

Vet said ticks are HORRIBLE this year,winter didn't freeze 'em,and I believe it,I have been finding them everywhere-and I mean everywhere!!!!!
Soooooo,get your dogs and cats some frontline or you'll be sleeping with ticks

I just found a site online that said to use Borax. I've heard that one before, about all other bugs, too. I've got plenty of that on hand, since I use it in the laundry. I guess I'll try that.

If that doesn't do it try tobacco tea.

Buy Skoal Bandits and drop them in a gallon of water. Set it in the sun in the yard and let it brew just like sun tea. Dispose of the tobacco packets and pour the liquid into your sprayer. Almost all bugs find this to be offensive and will leave your yard, even grubworms.

Warning: do not spray too close to roses or tomatoes. May cause tobacco mosaic, affecting your blooms or fruit production.

We always use cayenne pepper.

He IS awfully cute, Ratz, but I think I'll have to pass on borrowing your cousin.

We had ants a year or two back. Set out three or four of those little Raid traps. Ain't seen any since.

suzyr wrote:

He IS awfully cute, Ratz, but I think I'll have to pass on borrowing your cousin.

Are you sure? Once the ants are gone you might find him useful in other ways.

We had ant trouble too this year.
~Started with ant traps inside the house... didn't work,
~sprayed outside the house.... didn't work.
~Hubby planted a couple of those ant killer things that you stake into the ground outside... WORKED!!! I'll find out the brand name and get back to you!

I've used bait traps with success. You gotta get a bait specific to the ant though. Some go for grease, others sugar. Try putting a little grease out and some syrup/sugar where they travel and see which they like, then buy the appropriate bait traps. They take it back to the queen and all of them die.

Ratzilla wrote:

suzyr wrote:

He IS awfully cute, Ratz, but I think I'll have to pass on borrowing your cousin.

Are you sure? Once the ants are gone you might find him useful in other ways.

Eeeeeewwww!

I do NOT want to know the rest of this story.

Malathion for spraying, Ant stakes for outside. We've used Grant's stakes, but there is also another brand I can't remember the name of at Ace Hardware on Vine.

From what part of the ant do you get the steak?

nitromaxx98 wrote:

From what part of the ant do you get the steak?

Thorax.

dz724 wrote:

We had ant trouble too this year.
~Started with ant traps inside the house... didn't work,
~sprayed outside the house.... didn't work.
~Hubby planted a couple of those ant killer things that you stake into the ground outside... WORKED!!! I'll find out the brand name and get back to you!

Terra is the brand name! Working like a charm!

I bought some Terro baits last night, set one out this morning. There were about 15 ants in it within 10 minutes. Hopefully, this works better this time, than in years past. So far, it seems to be.

I've talked to the neighbors on each side of me, and down the street, everyone is having this problem this year.

On a side note, the peonies are getting ready to bloom! Yay!!!

Yeah! Hope they do the trick!

Yippeee! Where there was a convoy yesterday, I only saw 2 today.