cb

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maybe someone can help...I am plagued with ants, a very small ant.. I have a brick home , that I have added a single carport with the back part given to a storage room.. it is on a slab,like the house..i have a constant stream of very small ants around the outside edge of the carport slab..they do not bother the house slab.. I have used antpowder to no avail.any suggestions thanks
 
Go to a farm and garden store and get some bifenthrin. Spray aronud the edges a couple of times. Once it is dry, no harm to people or pets.
Richard
 
Earlier this year we were plagued with small ants in the kitchen. Tried all the commercial remedies with no success. Finally put together a sugar/Borax mixture (3 parts sugar to 1 part Borax). I placed the mixture on a tin can lid in a location where they were most active. All the ants were gone within a couple days. I also had a tree out in the yard that has always been just covered with huge black ants. I tried all kinds of sprays with zero luck. A few weeks ago I sprinkled some of the Borax/sugar mixture here and there around the tree where most of the ant activity was and BINGO... the next day I could not find a single ant.

The way I understand it ants cannot digest the Borax. They carry it back to the colony along with the sugar and after they all feast on the Borax particles they croak.

It is amazing how the ants basically disappeared almost overnight.
 
My daughter what she thought were ants in her carport. She found where they were behind the baseboards. Found out they were termites. The builder had piled dirt up above the floor level around the edge of the carport and they were going in there. She had it retreated and in the process of repairing the damage now. Pest control man didn't think the damage was anywhere else but in that area.
 
cb; Several people have recommended Terro Ant Bait, and several have recommended borax and sugar. Terro may use something different than sugar to attract the ants, but the chemical in it that kills them is borax. A one ounce package of Terro costs around $4, and a 65 ounce box of 20 Mule Team Borax (which is pure borax) also costs around $4 at Wal-Mart. It's on the shelf with powdered laundry detergents. To deal with those tiny ants, which I call sugar ants, I mix 1/8 tsp of borax with 1/8 tsp of white sugar and add water drop by drop until it's the consistency of thin syrup. Someone else here said he used three parts sugar to one part borax. My mix works, and he said his mix works, so obviously the proportions don't have to be too precise. I mix it in batches of less than 1/2 tsp total at a time, so clearly cost (less than one cent per batch) is not an issue.

One problems is that the sugar/borax mix did not attract the ants around the concrete foundation of my house but did work on ants on my kitchen counter which looked exactly the same. I noticed that the outdoor ants were enthusiastic about some braunschweiger (liverwurst) which I used to bait a fly trap, so I'm going to try mixing that with some borax and water and see if I can get them to go for that. I'll post my results here, but maybe in the meantime you might try Terro to see if that attracts the kind of ants you have. Leftover borax can be added to your laundry detergent as a booster, so don't worry if you don't think you'll need 3,100 batches of ant killer.

Stan
 
Yup Terro is just a ready made, high priced, pre packaged ant bait with Borax as the killer ingredient.
Mixing borax with table sugar 3 to 1 or something close is good.
But you do not want the borax portion to be to "heavy" in the mix.
It kills slowly and you are trying to get the ants you see to ingest it and take it back to the queen to eat.
If you do not get the queen dead you will have ants from that nest forever.

I mix the sugar and borax with just enough water to make a spreadable paste. Then mix in some cheap pancake syrup, whatever cheap stuff you got.
I then use plastic drink bottles like water or soda that have the bottoms with "hills and valleys". Put in enough mixture to just fill the valleys. Poke some holes around the perimeter at the level of the hills. Set out where ever you see the ants your wanting to eliminate. It helps to rub some of the concoction around the outside from the holes on down.
 
Lately I've been dumping used oil on the ant hills if you do it before a heavy rain seems to knock out the hill. Then they just go build another one..... Old french fry oil seems to work too. For what its worth.
Sod Buster
 
Be careful just dumping sprays on them. Very tiny ant could be Pharaoh ants. Guess what they do when they get sprayed? It's called "budding" and suddenly you have 3-4x the problem you did at first. Terro works ok. Advion Ant gel bait is phenomenal stuff.
AaronSEIA
 
I have had little black ants coming into the house that would not touch the terro ant bait. They were after grease. I mixed some borax with peanut butter and put it on the window sill and they loved it. Three or four days later they were gone and have not come back. I used to be able to get some stuff called anti ant that worked really good. All of the sudden they took it off of the market and it is no longer available. found out that a woman (Blanch Taylor Moore) had used anti ant to poison several of her husbands. The anti ant had arsenic in it. It sure did kill the ants!
 
I like to use an insecticide that is also labeled as a termiticide. Since ants live under soil ( like termites) these insecticides are very effective on ants. They can also control just about any other insect you have too including spiders. Termidor and Bifen are two I can think of and both of these are odorless or near odorless to insects. This means they are not a repellent and will not cause issues like budding.
 

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