How do you get rid of carpenter ants?
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010 at
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Spring just sprung and I have carpenter ants in my house. I laid traps, but they aren't working. Any ideas?
Don't pay them. They'll pack up their tool belts and go looking for work somewhere else.
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Get an exterminator service to come and spray.
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Here are the specifics of the recipe. Follow them closely, because if it’s too strong then the scout ants will croak before they have a chance to deliver your goods to the mothership.
2 tablespoons Sugar
2 tablespoons Peanut Butter
1 tablespoon Boric Acid
(The Boric Acid is a white powder which you can find in any local Hardware store… it’s nothing too powerful, but don’t put it where pets and kids can easily reach it.)
Mix the ingredients thoroughly with a disposable spoon or knife. Then cut up a couple of straws into about 3 pieces each. Pack them halfway with the mixture- this allows you to handle them easily and allows you to place them in areas where your child or pet is less likely to find them.
Place the straws near where you see the ant trail- try to follow it until you get as close to their point of entry, because there’s no reason to invite them further into your home. You will probably need to replace the straws after a day or two. By then you will probably not see many, if any, live ants showing up. If you notice that none of the ants are making it more than a foot away from your mixture, then you probably overdid it with the Boric Acid… just reduce the amount and try again.
It can be frustrating to think of having to tolerate them for the 48-72 hours it takes for the queen to eat her poison, but the only way to effectively rid yourself of ants is to destroy the entire colony.
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try posion, find where they hang out and put the posion there
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by killing them?????
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Hot pepper spray, nothing can stand it.They use it for outdoor plants and vegetable plants.
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First, make sure they are carpenter ants. The ants have been marching through the same way for who knows how many years. It is possible that this is a self limiting problem and will only last a week or two.
Also find out it they are ants that are harmful to the structure of the home. If so, you have to protect it. Otherwise they are just annoying and will probably disappear when things dry up a little.
Traps just don’t work.
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Although the Boric acid is effective, I have had better results with Grits. Sprinkle grits around the areas you see ants. They carry the powdered grits back to feed the queen. The queen cannot digest them and dies, killing the colony. The grits is safe to use everywhere and you don’t need an attractant like peanut butter. Outside, the peanut butter attracts other animals, so just sprinkle the boric acid around it and don’t mix them. The Boric acid will burn plants and grasses too.
Good luck
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Ants big problem here in Las Vegas
You have to hire an exterminator that is licensed to spray Tramadol. The ants will carry the poison back to the nests and kill them. Carpenter ants will make nests in your walls. The exterminator will spray inside your house in elec. outlets. A "worse case" scenario is if they have to drill small holes in your outside walls and spray between the studs.
Fortunately The first treatment worked for me and he didn’t have to drill any holes
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carpenter ants eat wet wood, get rid of their food, i.e. fix the leak, or source of it and you won’t have the ants. what shape is your house in? how is the roof? have you added an addition lately, or other remodeling? if your ant infestation is recent, since any work on the house, that may be the cause. of course, if the house is in need of repair, ants are natures way of saying "it’s time to fix it".
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If you don’t have young children crawling around: Get a residue ant spray. They work really well. Spray the ant’s entry points and nearby baseboards. Ant’s will try to go around the stuff. If they go through it they will die within an hour. Available at any discount store. The stuff is not strong enough to be harmful to adults and does fade away after a few weeks.
My experience with ant bait is they don’t work for the immediate problem. You won’t see ants in two months or next year, but they don’t get rid of the ants that are there now.
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they sell and insecticide called "Demon" works very well I get it from a feed store if you are in a bigger city google it.
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First, you have to find a colony of fire ants and then locate a rogue male member who has been thrown out of the colony. After capture tell him you will grant freedom if he does a "job" for you. The "job" is to train to be a union rep and then he must unionize the carpenter ants that you want to get rid of. Carpenter ants being the most independent of all ants will refuse to be unionized and will quickly leave your home voluntarily. Wait 3 weeks….if the carpenter ants have not returned then keep your end of the deal and free the fire ant… preferably somewhere not too close to home.
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There’s a product called "Sevens" @ the hardware store..it’s a bag of white powder that kills. among other things, carpenter ants. It’s supposedly safe enough to put on dogs to kill fleas too. Check around outside your house for the nest.. usually a large, obvious mound. I’d sprinkle there for sure. I also scattered a bit around the whole perimeter of the house to create a barrier they’d have to cross. I found several nests around my property. They hadn’t come in but were walking on my deck rail. They were gone after Sevens application.
They carry the product back to the nest where they all eat it. I also dump some on the nest when I find them.
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Don’t pay them. They’ll pack up their tool belts and go looking for work somewhere else.
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