Seeking Good Ant Killer

I use liquid ant from lowe's. It has worked everytime for me and let me tell you I was bombarded by ants. They laid eggs all over my shed and in my lawn chairs. That is the only thing I found that works and I still use it today in my new house.

Ortho's Soy Bean Oil spray worked for us. Its safe around kids and pets. We also used the ant bait/traps they take awhile to work. I used the spray inside and outside and also continued to put down the traps at night and when we would leave for work/school. Took about two weeks but I haven't seen one in over a month!! Good luck!

Tough and Tender by Melaleuca! Absolutely kills ants! They have a Tub and Tile that kills wasps. They have all kinds of products that not only do the obvious, but have great uses you'd never think of (I have a quick reference guide). I used the Laundry Stain Remover on purple maker on my carpet--thanks to my 2 year old son :) None of their products have caustic chemicals, no ammonia, no chlorine bleach or phosphates. They are totally safe to use near kids and pets and that's why I'm a customer and I adore these products! I converted my whole house and feel better knowing my kids are safer away from ALL the other products we used to use--including baby shampoo--it had formaldehyde in it!
Yeah, the company pays you back when you refer people so I suppose that's another reason I keep telling people about Melaleuca's products. Hey, ever received a check from Wal-mart for telling someone about an ant trap?--that doesn't even work?
Melaleuca guarantees (for 60 days) every product so I highly recommend you check it out. You have to go through a member to get a membership so....

I can't help too much but wanted to reply to the thread cause we are having the same problem and I want to see your reponses. It's driving me crazyyyyyy. They are everywhere and you are right, the bait traps don't work well because they don't like to go in them. They do however work if the ant goes into the bait. This sounds crazy but I spent an hour one day waiting till I saw the ants where I knew they were. I then scooped them up and put them on top of the bait and let them go on their merry wait with the poison on them. I know it sounds mean and neurotic but it seemed to control them for atleast a week or 2 a little better than had been. My dad tells me fresh mint plant they don't like. I've heard of diatemaceous earth, but haven't used it.

Terro. found at Lowes is the best I have used in 10 years!

Follow the trail and find out where they are coming in first. Then take baby powder or powdered chalk and pour a line across the opening. It's safe for your family and actually works!

Put salt across your window and door sills-ants won't cross a path of salt. Also Martha Stewart has a great all natural-safe around children and pets spray that has mint in it. You can get it at Kmart. Or if you have access to any mint leaves and can put them out-ants hate them and will vacate.

You should try to see where they are coming in from. If you weren't having a problem before then they are probably coming in from the outside somewhere. We have an issue with ants every year because of our garden and the fact that there are so many little cracks in the siding and windows that they can get in from.

Anyway, until this year, what has always worked for us is to use Sevin powder that we put around the perimeter of the house. That kept them out fairly well. And you have to redo it every time there is a heavy rain. This year we ended up calling a pest control place because I think they made a nest in the house somewhere in the siding or under the wood so the outside tactics didn't work. I was not sure if I wanted to call pest control because I just pictured them spraying my house with this really nasty toxins but these days the good pest control places are using very low toxic but effective products with multiple treatments to keep things under control.

Bottom line - start with sevin powder outside if you are able to determine where they are coming from (I wouldn't use it inside unless if its out of the way from everything). Also see if you can plug up any "holes" in the house where they are coming from. We used caulk or wood putty where applicable to plug up small holes...

Good luck.

Terro is the best thing ever! You put it on a scrap of paper near where the ants are coming in the house. They take it back to the nest and you never see them again. We see ants every spring and use this at the beginning and they are gone for the season. The best thing is you can find it at any hardware store and it is cheap!

at my husbands work they purchase a product by Share corporation called surface insecticide there number is 1800 ###-###-####. This is a great product it smells like vanilla and kills most any bug . I had ants in my dish washer and he brougth a can home from work I sprayed under my dishwasher and the bottom of my cabnets s , and i havent seen one sence , Im not sure of the price but it work great

I second Diatomacious Earth as I have used it in VA with good results. I also recommend cayenne pepper as another barrier method. We would also pour it on the ant hills in our yard when we lived in Louisiana and the ant hills would disappear.

My 93 yr old grandmother uses cinnamon. The ants won't come near it.

The best advise I have is to find the source. They could be nesting in your walls or floor boards and unless you get to the nest they will continue to invade. Other then that sprinkle corn starch around the perimeter of your room. I have used the corn starch successfully outside my home as well!

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Ultrasonic pest repellers...when I bought mine I thought for sure I was throwing away my money. Now I have them everywhere! You can buy them at Home Depot or Bed Bath Beyond type places. I don't remember the prices but you an probably get at least 2 for $20. I've bought at least 2 diffrent kinds (Sunbeam was one of them) and they are magical. I use extension cords to get them placed in the right spots and if I already have ants I spray before bedtime and then wash it down the next morning. That usually does the trick.

I did a search for this and will be trying it also the next time I have the little unwanted offenders. Use Aspartame. Here is the article.
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/0...
Good luck!

Hello, I know what you mean...i use a product called Orange Guard, it is found in most natural food markets, it smells good. Follow the directions on the bottle and it works...find where they enter into the house and spray the trail....good luck, chelle

I had read recently that Bounce (the fabric softner sheets) repelled ants. You are just supposed to lay it down in the area where they are.

We sprinkled cornmeal. They get greedy and eat a ton of it, take it back to the queen, it swells in their stomachs and kills them. Worked for us!

diatomaceous earth! all natural, non-toxic, ants will flee from it.
now, you do have to keep yourself and littles from breathing it deeply or it will irritate the nasal passages (DE is actually very-finely ground shells, so has microscopic sharp edges- that's how it deters bugs, it puts tiny slices in their carapaces.) this is only an issue with crawly babies. just working around it and having it nearby is not a problem. it's effective for a large variety of bugs which does not, to my sorrow, seem to include stinkbugs.
NOTHING kills those varmints!
khairete
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Have you used Home Defense...it really works!

Windex works very good and does not smell as bad as the bug spray.Do not get the kind without amonia that is what kills them.

The only at-home ant killer that has ever worked for me is Combat. They make a Ant killing GEL that you squirt on the perimeter of the room, but really only where you have seen them. They swarm it! It's amazing. Then by about a week later, they are dead. Sometimes I have had to use several containers of the stuff, but only when there were a ton of ants (when I see they have consumed all of one application, I put another down, etc, until I don't see them anymore). FYI - the only place I have found that actually sells the gel, is Home Depot.

You certainly wouldn't want you kids or pets playing with it directly, but if you apply it when the 2 year old is napping of something, they really shouldn't even notice that it is there.

Good luck!