How to get rid of ants??

[Mike]

Seems that my house is constantly being swarmed by ants. A few ants wouldn't bother me but it's the fact that if you leave something in the sink and walk in 10 minutes later there seems to be a buffet going on.

It must be a Nor Cal thing because my school has mass quantities of ants running around as well.
Any tricks on how to get rid of these guys?

[uethello]

You have to go to a small local hardware store to find this: Terro. Not some cheap junk that says "antkiller" or what have you. Terro. Put a spot of it on a piece of nonabsorbent material in a place accessible to the ants.

I've never been able to find this in a big store, liability I guess.

[Mike]

What's it do? I was thinking about suggesting to my dad an exterminator because the ants are so bad.

Terro? I will do some research on it.

[thekingofpain]

Here is my method from living on the beach---works 100% gauranteed every time---

Throw a 5 pound bag of sugar under your neighbors house when they aint around...
:-)

[Mike]

ROFL Well TKOP That'd work except they have the same ant problem we do.

[uethello]

What's it do?

It kills ants. Very dead. When I had them, I watched them for a few hours, They would sit there and suck on the spot until their butts got huge, then they'd trundle back home and give it to the wife and kids.

I found it at the local hardware, under "things that will poison you" next to "things that might explode" and "things that will remove a limb".

Still Remember mom putting the milk cap full of Terro right behind the Pop-Tarts.

[Mike]

hehe you watched the ants for a few hours? Wow well only time I really watch them is when I decide to throw them in some boiling water or something just as wretched.

I will be sure to go to my local hardware store and see if they have something like that.

[Epidemic]

I use a mixture of boric acid in a milk cap.

you take strawberry jelly 50 50 by volume and mix it in a pot over the stove making sure not to heat it up to much and carmelizing it.

take the mixture and place it in milk caps and such place the home made ant traps around. If you have kids or animals you may want to place them so they are not accessable to the kids. they are poisonous to humans and animals. But they work best if you place them in their path. The boric acid weakens their shells and they die after bringing their toxic payload to the nest.

It has worked for me several times.

[Mike]

Very nice Epidemic..Thanks.
Well little brother is in Japan for 6 weeks and the cat doesn't go on the counter.
Where do I buy boric acid?

[uethello]

hehe you watched the ants for a few hours?

Ummm...errr. minutes, yeah minutes. I have a life, I just forgot where I put it.