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infested!! green ant killers??
Hi, I'm new to the board- my name is Jessi and I live in Harrisburg, PA. Nice to meet everyone- this is a great board!
Question- our kitchen is INFESTED with ants!! I am trying to get rid of them naturally, I have sprayed vinegar in the hole in the grout where they are entering, and I have made a trap of sugar, cinnamon (which is suprisingly an ant irritant) and 20 mule team boarx, but it didn't really work.
Please, I'm open to ANY suggestions!
Thanks!
Re: infested!! green ant killers??
I think you are using the right ingredients, in the wrong way.
I use vinegar to clean the floors/wherever they were crawling, to remove the tracks.
Pour the cinnamon down the crack in the grout... they won't want to crawl over it to get up through the hole.
Make the bait from the sugar/borax - no cinnamon. I'm not sure how to properly make the bait since I just used the terro liquid traps, but I'm sure you could google that part. Once you have it set, you have to let them come in, eat the bait, and leave undisturbed. The borax would theoretically kill them back at the nest.
...then, I don't know, you may want to... fix the crack in the grout.
We had a major ant problem a couple months ago. Here's what I did...
Took out everything from my cupboards (this is where they were congregating). Sprayed everything with vinegar to remove their scent tracks. Sprinkled cinnamon in the cupboards. Used a piece of chalk to outline all the edges of the cupboards. Supposedly ants do not like to walk on chalk and will not cross over it.
I pretty much had to just keep at it by killing the ones I did see and then spraying vinegar again and again. Left all the pantry stuff in shopping bags until the problem cleared up...I guess about a week. Yeah that part sucked, but it worked! Without using any chemicals at all.
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Ditto what the PPs said. I also found a spray that was basically just clove oil and it worked pretty well. I'm not sure what is what called but it was available at a few places near here so if you want the name just let me know (I'll update if I remember). If your kitchen is next to a garage or other outdoor area, put some torro or other traps out there.
But, mainly just wanted to say I feel your pain. We had a HUGE ant problem this spring and since I hate ants it was horrible. We also have cats and had a crawling infant so I tried everything natural and it took a long time to get things under control.
We used vinegar to kill the ones we saw, and put TONS of cinnamon on our counters and where it looked like they were getting in. Haven't had a problem since.
ETA: I'm not sure about other options as I needed to make sure everything was non-toxic to our cats, and also that it wouldn't exacerbate the asthma of one of the kitties.
5 cats. 1 baby.