I know ‘my’ ants prefer grease (rather than sugar). Can you do the Borax solution bait in a microwave???

Any assistance is deeply appreciate!

ps- we actually have a professional service which performs monthly service and they said they can’t touch the inside of appliances – worthless!

You may have to repeat this a few times, but it will kill them dead.

I know part of the prevention of such an issue is keeping wooden parts of your house well away from the ground, as well as stay on top of any leak issues, but once they’re in what’s the quickest most efficient way to be rid of them?

Thanks.

You can use talcum powder across doorways and other “paths” to help keep those armies occupied. Until they start piling up the dead bodies and making a bridge to get across your primitive human barrier.

The only REAL solution = complete annihilation!

I moved into a house in the city which had been cockroach-infested for many years. We had lots of pets so we didn’t want to use poison – and the neighbors told us they’d been using poison for years without getting results anyway.

For cockroaches, you don’t even have to mix it with sugar. Just lay down a continuous line of boric acid powder all along the backs and sides (anywhere they’d be entering) of the food cabinets and closets where they’ve been coming in to steal your food.

Something about the design of cockroach feet traps the boric acid powder, they track it back to the nest, and… doom. You’ll have to be patient, though; we saw fewer cockroaches within 3-4 days, but it took weeks before they were completely gone. Make sure to maintain the lines of boric acid during that time.

(also u can use ground up Camphor to repel them.. it works good.. and it quite fast-acting)

However, when playing with chemicals like borix acid make sure kids don’t eat it!

That’s why it’s a good idea, if you use ant baits, to use two different brands. Read the instructions to be sure they’re actually different.

BTW (esp. @ Penelope), you do not want to kill off all the ants near your home, and you absolutely positively don’t want to get rid of any black widows that are outdoors (where they prefer to reside). Black widows kill and completely consume any number of insect pests, including (b’lieve it or not) cockroaches. And ants are effective scavengers that police your yard and form an important part of the ecosystem.

I recently discovered an all-natural product called EcoSmart which is made of vanilla, cinnamon and rosemary oils and is safe for pets (though it’s probably still best to keep pets away from it until it dries). We’ve only just begun using it, but we really like it. It kills insects on contact, is safe, and best of all smells really nice!

I bought 3 cans the first day and picked up another one yesterday to make sure we never run out.

We use the boric powder as well, but I mix it up with a little powdered sugar and snow cone syrup. The little guys can’t resist such a solution and as you said in a couple days are completely gone.

But they find ways.

When I moved in to the House from He**, one of its many demonic traits was vast infestations of ants. The landscaper didn’t want to work in the yard because of the aggressive little ladies, who belonged to a variety with a particularly annoying bite. I managed to get rid of them with two strategies:

1. Call in birds that eat ants. Most birds will eat a few, but flickers and thrashers just love’em. Get yourself a bird feeder and hang it near the ant nests. This takes a few weeks, but it helps a lot. BTW, don’t leave the bag of birdseed where the ondts can get it: they’ll poke holes in the plastic and consume the seed in days.

2. Get two packages of ant baits in different brands (they’re not necessarily identical). Place a few of each near ant hills. I had two dogs that I didn’t care to have eating the baits, and so I took the cages off my house fans and set them down over the baits. This effectively kept pets out but allowed the ants to come and go. And that WORKED.