Posted by SweetFeet on May 17, 2012 at 15:38:59 from (70.35.110.213):
In Reply to: Ants! posted by Chris Jones on May 17, 2012 at 13:14:44:
Not sure if this works for what my mom referred to as "sugar ants", but it does work for black carpenter ants... BORAX POWDER (found in your local laundry supply isle of the grocery store). Don't know how/why it works, but it does on the carpenter ones for sure - nor have I seen any little brown/reddish sugar ants since then either.
Our house was built about 100 years ago (in all seriousness). Anyway about 10 years ago, had some black carpenter ants take up residence. Hired a bug guy who drilled little holes in all the walls... then used some type of air bulb to blow white powder into each cavity in the wall and all around the sill of the house inside and out and across the path of all entry doors. ANTS ALL DISAPPEARED! The bug guy had said if they ever appear call him again... OR JUST SPRINKLE BORAX POWDER ALL AROUND - so I did that numerous times just for good measure. No ants ever came back.
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