Flipping Ants!

natley

The past couple of weeks, I have found ants in the sitting room. Started off 1 or 2 but tonight I've killed about 10. I fear they may be living in my couch or sideboard - both are black and so are the flipping ants:eek:
I cannot see any entry points on the floor.
Does anyone have any remedies/old wives tales how I can get rid? Looked at rapid spray but unsure how safe this is as I have a dog and toddler

Apologies if in the wrong place

closed

http://www.poundland.co.uk/home-and-garden/gardening/pests-weeds-fertilisers/ant-killer-powder-300gz

wouldthisbeodd

I had this problem a few weeks ago, kept finding 1 or 2 ants and didn't know where they were coming from. My daughter had a friend over for a sleepover and they were in the living room on camp beds when she called me downstairs around midnight as there were ants all over the fireplace. I think they must have come through the vent at the back of the fire. I put some of the ant powder from Poundland all around the fireplace and vacuumed it up the next morning. Have seen no more ants since.

Could you put powder down at night keeping the dog out of the way until you vacuum it up?

bluebeary

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Vitax-Nippon-Killer-Liquid-Disp/dp/B000TAUBSC

• Destroys compete ant colonies without trace
• Worker ants carry the bait back to the nest
• Useful where the nest site is unknown
• Discrete and easy to use

trolleyrun

A few years ago I came home from work to a living room floor full of ants - yuk! I initially killed as many as I could, then I started watching them. I found out where they came from, and sprinkled cinnamon liberally in the area. Then I realised that the ants were trying to get in in a slightly different way, so I did some searching online and found out that bleach on a small cloth should do the trick. I put a drop of bleach on a j-cloth and left it in the area. It did smell like bleach in the house for a bit, but I've never had ants since (knock on wood)

NoAngel

I had some in the kitchen and used these:
http://www.homebase.co.uk/en/homebaseuk/ant-stop-bait-station---2-traps-333772

Dead ants around the traps the next day and haven't seen a single one since.

FatVonD

I've never tried it but I read once that cucumber skins contain enough arsenic to kill an ant and that they go back to the nest to die and are then eaten by the others in the colony killing them also.

mel48rose

trolleyrun wrote: »

A few years ago I came home from work to a living room floor full of ants - yuk! I initially killed as many as I could, then I started watching them. I found out where they came from, and sprinkled cinnamon liberally in the area. Then I realised that the ants were trying to get in in a slightly different way, so I did some searching online and found out that bleach on a small cloth should do the trick. I put a drop of bleach on a j-cloth and left it in the area. It did smell like bleach in the house for a bit, but I've never had ants since (knock on wood)

I'm over run with them at the mo. Will try the bleach trick as I've already got some. Thanks.

Mrs_Imp

mix some Borax with some neat orange squash. Leave in a jam jar lid out of reach of children/pets etc. They take it back to their nest and it kills the nest.

You can mix 1 part bicarb with 2 parts icing sugar. They can't separate the grains so eat both. They can't expel air, so the excess gas from the bicarb kills them. We had some success with this.

barba

Having ants is a sign of a dirty house.

Clean up and your problem will be solved

Februarycat

Get a couple of the Ant Stop Baits, I had ants in my kitchen, and tried loads of things, only thing that works are the Ant Baits, they are around £4.99 for two, or sometimes on offer. I have no ants now.