Ants!!!!

Caterina

I sprinkled peppermint oil all over the place around the door where the ants were coming in, it seems to have worked. And it made the house smell lovely too.

Red_sky

dandy-candy wrote: »

We get invaded every summer and this year I finally found something that works.
I have a juicer and found this use for the orange skins after squeezing the juice out. Put the skins in a blender with enough water to cover them and blitz to a watery mush. Strain it and put the water in a spray bottle to use indoors and put the bits of orange mush from the sieve around the ants entry holes outside.
I have not had a single ant since!

Yes, I think the reason why this works is because of the acid content in the orange peel the ants hate it. Works for lemons too. Just wipe the juice from a lemon any where the ants are and they should disappear pretty quick. I live in Vietnam and the ants are quite literally every where. The best thing i found to use is an ant spray but I guess you could use the lemon as a natural alternative.

Red_sky

Where can I buy an ant trap from? B&Q? Never heard of them before.

lindsaygalaxy

Over the summer we had a big ant problem. Came down one morning to find loads under our sofa (laminate floor). We re-sealed around the french doors where they were getting in (found an ants nest outdoors) and it seemed to stop them. But now they are getting back in. We are finding some in the living room and some in the kitchen, though we cant't find where they are getting in.

Any advice greatly received, I hate them in here!

Thank you.

calicocat

Where I have moved to seems to have quite a few ants, as it happened I was going up to flea-spray the house before moving in and found a few of the critters coming in where previous owner had washing machine. The fleas spray worked a treat if you have any. Mine was R.I.P. You can also get proper ant treatments but as yet I haven't had to use any.

Not loads of help, but something that worked for me.

Badrick

We used to get them every year until buying ant bait stations.
Just place them where the ants run and they'll take it back to the nest and it eventually kills the colony.
Pet safe and cost about £3 for 2, I think

Butterfly_Brain

Put some cornflour mixed with sugar down where they are getting in, they can't ingest it so they take it back to the colony and it kills them off

Popperwell

Never had a problem for decades then this happened here, I'd find them at night in the living room and had to resort to bait stations, it worked and so far its been years(I'll regret saying that)since any ants caused problems.

This year it has been fruit flies(again never had them before)but talking to others it seems to have been a common problem.

Never purchased fly spray in my life(I'm in my 50's)and gave in this time. Used very little and found one for only 82p and yes it got rid of them all in minutes. And there were a lot.

Whatever next?

Pink.

lindsaygalaxy wrote: »

Over the summer we had a big ant problem. Came down one morning to find loads under our sofa (laminate floor). We re-sealed around the french doors where they were getting in (found an ants nest outdoors) and it seemed to stop them. But now they are getting back in. We are finding some in the living room and some in the kitchen, though we cant't find where they are getting in.

Any advice greatly received, I hate them in here!

Thank you.

I've added your post to our existing thread which has lots of advice on getting rid of ants in the house.

Pink

-taff

fruit flies congregate where there is overripe fruit/vegetables. Keep it in the fridge or covered if it's in the open or in a compost caddy, and they'll go.