Ants in the Kitchin!

[hugoboss]

Just found quite a few ants wandering around my worktop. Anyone got any hints and tips for a)where the little beggars have come from and b) how to get rid of them? thanks

[Grunty]

The one I use successfully is Nippon Ant Killer Liquid.  It comes in a white tube and is a very sweet syrup (haven't actually tasted it).  The idea is that the ants carry it back to their nest, then Kerpow! as Superman might have said.  It comes with a little lidded saucer to put the drops in so you don't have to have it direct on your worktop.  I think you get it from Wilkinsons, B & Q etc.

[clarelouise]

Hi there,

we started with ants in our kitchen 3 years ago now and seem to get them every year starting around june time.

They are coming in under the house and you can see thousands of them under the floorboards.

They come out of the skirting board in the kitchen.

I hate them,I dread every summer.

We bought some Raid foam spray from asda in a red can.You spray it into the hole where they are coming from or where they are entering and they hate it.

It lasts for up to 6 weeks and then you reapply it again.

When we sprayed that we had the odd one come out of the hole and then that was it after a couple of day.

We bought some plug in pest repellers,the ants aren't supposed to like the frequency they are at.only ants can hear it.

We have 3 plugged in the kitchen.

The sound waves bounce of the walls creating an environment they hate

I don't know if it was because we had a bad sumer last year or not but with the pest repellers plugged in we only had about 10 flying ants come out,compared to hundreds of ants the summer before.

So we didn't get any last summer.The last lot we had was when I sprayed the ant raid foem spray from asda and after that we didn't get any.

I am expecting them again this year and dreading the time again.

we have also tried the bait method.

I found the recipe on the net.

It's boric acid from a chemist,peanut butter and sugar mixed together in an old jar.

we put that under the house floorboards or you can out it on the entrance and exit to the hole where they are coming from.They then eat as they love sweet things,take it back to the nest and feed the other ants and then they slowly die.

It killed quite a few but not enough in our case as there were too many.

There's no point in calling in pest contraol as the little beggars only come back again.

hope this helps.

clarelouise.

11:27 Wed 04th May 2005

[curragh]

we use talc powder. it works!

[SC00BY]

Grunty is right!! Nippon is great they love it and they can't see the end coming. I used it a couple of years ago and havent seen em since!!

[patriciather]

talcum powder really works-i was advised off another ab user and it got rid off the pesky things thanks to ronianna for the cure