Very Big Ant Problem

Raksha

I've found in past years that around this time of year they stop foraging in the house for food and look elsewhere - mine seemed to have done. It also helps to close all sweet things away, wipe jars clean etc.

quidsin

After seeing rolpaula's contributions- this also may help http://www.zsl.org/info/media/press-releases/868,868,PR.html
http://www.maiaw.com/anteater/

trayci

Nippon, in traps. Refilable but never needed to. They take it to the hive and it wpes them all out. Wilko's about £3 for a years worth with traps.

madmum33

I HATE ANTS!!!!!!

We found ants building a nest in our bathroom, under the bath (it's an old house, rented, and under the bath is just earth) Two weeks later they are all over the bathroom, at least three different nests (tunnelled into the plaster, under the skirting boards, and under the bath).

We bought Nippon with the traps and it seems to be killing them, most of the remaining ants are tiny.

computerwoman

the problem is if you dont do anything about them to control them they do untold damage to your house behind the scenes so you dont see what they are up to, they have been on the drive for about 3 years, until the drive dropped one day and it had to be dug up and re-laid at much expense, now they have been at the front door step, big hole under step now so thats going to be another expence to fix, and under the front room window I can see holes immersing by the day/week where the path meets the house, so they are now under the house, digging up all the soil, I feel as thought I have moles but its ants, everywhere, so hopefully as long as it doesnt rain anytime soon, they will be controlled, now when I go see how things are going I find heaps of dead ants instead of live ones, my ants are red, they bite, and they hurt, and after being biten by one, you dont feel very well for a whole day afterwards, they are a pest, I do feel abit guilty about my neigbour getting them, but thats life, the powder does look like chalk when its down, but my garden is slowly losing its soil because the ants are all over it, and they seem to make lots of hills with the soil, which is annoying, as it goes like fine powder, not soil, so the sooner they go the better for me, I have given my neighbour some powder just to be socialable really as I feel as it is my fault that they have got them all of a sudden, since I started to put down the powder, which does seem to much of a coincidence, to me anyway,
but thanks for all your help, I have been using boiling water for years and did get the council in afew years ago to spray them but this seems to have had little effect on them,
so maybe the powder is the only way to go. and I have 4 cats that have not been harmed in anyway by the powder,
thanks all cw.

Chester_Draws

If anyone has one of those wallpaper strippers that pumps out steam, these are highly effective. They obviously do the same job as a kettle of boiling water but distribute the steam over a wider area.

dazzii

This was interesting reading, i had them in the garden last year so i tried all sorts of powder to kill them of. This year the come cack with a vengence by moving into the house, they use the radiator pipes in the walls to get every where. If i put a can of coke on the floor they are there within minutes to have a sip(all my floors are wood so they are easy to spot), the little blighters even run up the table legs and attack my laptop( they hide in my keys when i try get them!!!!!
well i put bait down again and i have a little rechargable vac which i have fun sucking them up

The moral of the story is... leave them alone in the garden , if they promise to go back there ill even build them a little house hahaha