How to Get Rid of Ants?

[mathrulz]

There seems to be more and more of them around the last few years, what's everyone's tricks for getting rid of them? I've tried about every product out there, along with some home remedies (borax and sugar, gas, diesel, flooding with water, etc), but it just seems to suppress them at best only to have them thriving again in the same spot or nearby within a few days to weeks. The most effective I've found so far is manually digging up the hill and burning all the ants including the nest of eggs with a torch. I'm thinking there must be a better/easier way though?

 

[john s]

I would say rig up a hose to the exhaust of your truck and gas them I had to do it once with baby birds worked a treat.

 

[Cat401]

There seems to be more and more of them around the last few years, what's everyone's tricks for getting rid of them? I've tried about every product out there, along with some home remedies (borax and sugar, gas, diesel, flooding with water, etc), but it just seems to suppress them at best only to have them thriving again in the same spot or nearby within a few days to weeks. The most effective I've found so far is manually digging up the hill and burning all the ants including the nest of eggs with a torch. I'm thinking there must be a better/easier way though?

Boiling water poured directly into the area......but it also hurts the grass for a while in that spot

 

[whoDEANie]

Funny, you've had such poor success with everything you've tried. I had excellent luck with gas. I just doused the area with gas and then ran the spade into the ground a few times. Poof! Of course, the grass suffered for a couple of years.

 

[lilduke]

Yeah Gas should do it,, dont let the greanies hear you;re dumping gas on the ground tho....

 

[neilsleder]

Cream of wheat. They eat it and then swell up and die. That's what I have heard never tried it my self. I have had good luck with Wilson brand of ant killer. Both the powder and this stuff you hook up to your garden hose.

 

[Highfly]

I use powder as well. Seems like they re invade every year. The first time I see the little pile of dirt coming up through the grass I hit it with the powder and that takes care of it. But I swear the little buggers pack up and move to a different location sometimes. Again powder it and so far I've been winning.

 

[SLEDBUNNYRACING]

Dr. Doom is my killer of choice.
Use it at home and the lake, the outhouse is bug and spider free thanks to Dr. Doom

 

[sledn]

Malathion works good.I spray a few times a year.Keeps ants and other bugs under control.

 

[TylerG]

good info guys! thanks!

 

[MACHINE]

Throw a few boiling kettle of water on top and see them do the bacon dance , Priceless

 

[fnDan]

I tried all of the home - safe remedies like cream of wheat. None of them worked. I picked up a powder ant killer and haven't seen them for 2 years. It was a very large nest. I'll have to check to see if I kept the bottle.

 

[Mike270412]

I've got 3 acres covered in ants.That's a lot of boiling water!

Throw a few boiling kettle of water on top and see them do the bacon dance , Priceless

 

[ferniesnow]

I've got 3 acres covered in ants.That's a lot of boiling water!

Mikey, mix up some Malathion (that's an insecticide for house plants that my mother faithfully used) in a big hand held sprayer (the ones with the hand pump on it). If I were closer you could borrow mine. Mix it twice as strong as recommended and spray each "hill". It will work wonders. I only have an acre and that has been a god send.

 

[plio7]

agreed, I have started using the powder after trying all kind of other chit that never worked, the powder knocks them out pretty good

I tried all of the home - safe remedies like cream of wheat. None of them worked. I picked up a powder ant killer and haven't seen them for 2 years. It was a very large nest. I'll have to check to see if I kept the bottle.

 

[Cat401]

I've got 3 acres covered in ants.That's a lot of boiling water!

3 acres of ants???..............Then you need a roto tiller and a bag of grass seed.....

 

[TROLLCAT]

had good luck with the powder "ant killer " on the label

had carpenter ants ' the big black ones' moving into the house as there colony grows they move to a new area and you need to attack the main colony to stop them it took me 2 years to get handle on the bastages , I sat in the back yard on a lawn chair and lookin at ants movin around until I friggered out where there living then give them the powder


good luck - I called the Orkin man for this info

 

[TROLLCAT]

I've got 3 acres covered in ants.That's a lot of boiling water!

get a couple of pet ardvarks Mike

 

[ferniesnow]

The trouble this day and age is that all the "good stuff" has been removed from the shelves. In most cases, one has to ask for Malathion because it is in a back room so to speak.

I don't think a place like HomeDepot/Lowes would have Malathion. A green house or tree farm place would definitely have it.

 

[Bnorth]

I believe I use the Wilson stuff. Mix it up in a handheld sprayer and it decimates those little fuggers.