overun with ants

Hi everybody,

can anyone tell me any remedies to get rid of

ants from my home.

I have never encountered this problem before.

I have tried boric acid powder mixed with sugar,

THEN MIXED WITH HOT WATER.

also found one ant nest and poured boiling water down it

with a good sprinkle of boric acid powder neat.

plus scattering lemon rind outside, thought I had

got rid of them but they are back.

now trying spraying all surfaces with half water

and half vinegar. plus washing floors with lemon juice

and hot water.

I am always cleaning benches and make sure no food

is open to the air.

CAN ANYONE PLEASE GIVE ME ANY REMEDIES BEFORE I GO BONKERS

WITH THE LITTLE BAS---DS.

 Your local ferreteria will have many excellent products, powder and sprays, to sort your problem.

Hi Floella,

thanks for reply, but I forgot to say that I have

also bought ant spray which does kill the ones

you see but does not help with all of the others that are still

in the nest. I want the whole lot killed.

 I bought a gel in a syringe from the local ferretaría and piped it into the ant hill in the garden and they disappeared practically instantly!!  Haven't returned anywhere else either!  Cost about €6 if I recall correctly. 

Ant powder DOES it for US only really noticed them THIS YEAR, you know you are winning the WAR when you see the QUEEN ant the BIG ONE with the WINGS stumbling around.

They are QUITE entertaining on a HOT SUMMER night

Rod

any that venture into our apartment get vacuumed up. I then spray the holes where they came in and fil them with polyfilla.

 Zum powder is supposed to work the same way as Nippon where they take the powder back to the nests.  We found it worked very well as long as you put the powder on some of the ants.  They also do a Zum spray which, when spread over the door entrances, stops even bigger creepy crawlies from coming in.  

We had small ants in the kitchen and tried powder, spray and all kinds of old tips none of them worked for long. We bought a plug in pest reject and watched them march out through a gap in thr wall where the drain was and have never seen them since The plug in was about 40e from carrefour

Hi Everbody,

thanks for all your replies.

I am now trying the following.

have put ant powder down outside and I remembered

that I had one of those pest control gadgets  in a drawer

so have now plugged this into electric and am keeping my

fingers crossed that these work.

Hi Johnzx,

if you cannot come up with any constructive

advice then please do not bother posting on this

You can buy cheap things from any Chinese store they don't work as well as the more expensive ones. Not seen an ant in the kitchen for the last 4 months.