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I have to comment about how well these ant traps work. Yesterday morning there were a few ants on the kitchen counter. By evening there were more. My wife asked if we had more ant traps or did I use them all at church? I told her that they were in the car so she went and got one, cut it open and left it on the counter. This morning there were about thirty there. I left them to do their thing. Tonight there are none. These are the clear plastic traps with the clear syrupy boric acid in them. They take the Boric acid back to their ant home and it soon kills all of them. Sweet. Now if I could just find something as good for mice.
 
Terro is the brand name, there are at least 4 products (all work well) one is a liquid that you put on paper tabs on ant trais, another is the plastic "feeders" the third is powder, and the 4th is a small tin that is for grease eating ants. Jim
 
We are having the same problem. Any info you can give would be helpful. We tried cleaning our kitchen counters, cleaned stove inside out, and sprayer with raid ant spray and still are fighting ants.
 
The small, clear traps and the liquid have been absolute miracles for us in the past! If you want something that a child, animal, or a careless you might get into, use the plastic traps. Otherwise, you can take a small piece of cardboard from any food box, a piece of foil, wax paper, etc., and put a small amount of the liquid in the middle. Then place in an area near where the ants are at.

BOTH of these items, the bait will eventually dry out (quicker on the liquid), so if it sits too long, won't do any good. Need to change the liquid out every couple of days for best results.
 
(quoted from post at 17:29:20 07/29/17) We are having the same problem. Any info you can give would be helpful. We tried cleaning our kitchen counters, cleaned stove inside out, and sprayer with raid ant spray and still are fighting ants.

As Janicholson said they are Terro liquid ant traps.
 
Terro ant bait or ant liquid is quite cheap so there isn't much incentive to make your own, but I do anyway. A four pound box of 20 Mule Team Borax, found in the laundry detergent section of the store, sells for about $5. Mixed one for one with white sugar or honey, and enough water added to bring it to the viscosity of thin syrup, it has defeated two sugar ant infestations at our house this year. I mixed it in 1 teaspoon batches, but that appeared to be somewhere around 50 times more than was needed. It is toxic, but we only have pets, not children, and how hard is it to come up with a way that ants can get to the bait but pets can't? It took me ten seconds to think of a way, and another thirty seconds to do it. As a bonus, you can use it to do laundry. The box calls it a "laundry booster". I tried some along with the regular amount of detergent with several loads of laundry, and as far as I can tell it makes no difference whatsoever. Kills ant colonies, though.

Stan
 
You could make you own by mixing maple syrup, a
little water with boric acid. Put a few drops on a
plastic, put in window or where you see ants.

Mix peanut butter with boric acid, good for roaches.
Glad I don't have roaches, they make my skin crawl.
 
We had a problem with carpenter ants once, but I hid their little toolboxes and they left.
 
I use Tengard, its a termiticide/insectide and works great on any pests on or in the ground or inside the house. Fleas, ticks, ants, termites are all covered.

Incidentally I had one of those big red ant hills about 200yds from house. I was getting a few mice in my vehicles so I set out those poison bait stations for mice. Little did I know those red ants found one, raided it brought the poison back to their colony. The ants didn't bother me because they were so far away but now they are all gone.
 
we have had little black ants several times in the kitchen. they do not like sweets at all. I mix peanut butter and borax for them and they love it. soon
they are gone. I think they are known as grease ants.
 

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