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Old 04-30-2009, 09:03 AM
 
Location: Southwest Nebraska
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Whats with al these ants. They are every where in my trailer. How do you get rid of them? We spray but they come back, and keep sweets off areas as much as possible.

We live in Somerset area.
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Old 04-30-2009, 09:28 PM
 
Location: Southwest Nebraska
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Thanks for all the suggestions, it has really helped.

No more Ants!!!!
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Old 04-30-2009, 09:44 PM
 
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Quick easy cheap - mix boric acid (or borax) with sugar and water and make little foil dishes, put some of this liquid in these dishes and put them on one or more ant paths. The ants eat the poison, take it back to their nest, regurgitate it and the nest dies. Keep it out of children and pet's way. If the ants you have a protein feeders not sugar feeder use tuna instead of sugar.
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Old 05-02-2009, 09:21 PM
 
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P.S. Additional info - I have found (but I may be wrong) but if they are fairly large ants they tend to be protein feeders, while the smaller ones tend to be sugar feeders. Also, if you put a blob of the mixture in the path of one of the ants and they run in the opposite direction then you're talking about the other kind of ant.

This is what you can expect to see if you get the correct mix (just don't kill them before they can go back to their nest).
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Old 05-02-2009, 09:45 PM
 
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I don't like them much either. What I do is get a syquirt bottle water, and soap, and spray, it reall does work! They sell this terror? stuff, they flock to and bring it to there queen, and it kills her!
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Old 05-03-2009, 11:28 AM
 
Location: In the Pearl of the Purchase, Ky
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My parents swear by just setting out some corn meal. Ants carry it back to the colony and it kills them. Don't ask me why, but they say it works. Maggie they used Terror for several years and it worked for them too.
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Old 05-03-2009, 12:54 PM
 
Location: Bowling Green, Kentucky
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Or...another possible solution is.....be very diligent about cleaning up after yourself...make sure there is no crumbs or open food containers anywhere.

Almost always, in the past, whenever I discovered a line of sugar ants going from one end of a room to another....sure enough....there was a food source somewhere--be it crumbs or a sticky counter top, or a container of something or other where the lid wasn't on tight enough. Take away the food source...and the ants will eventually go away.
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