[Sca-cooks] ants

Huette von Ahrens ahrenshav at yahoo.com
Thu Oct 25 01:45:23 PDT 2007


When I had problems with ants a couple of years ago, here is what I did that actually worked:
I followed the trail back to the nest and put Grant's Kills Ants bait stakes near it, which 
are pet safe, unless your pets are ant sized.  I took penetrating ant and roach spray and 
sprayed all around the foundation on the outside of the house.  I repeated this every month for
several months.

When I get one or two ants [which usually means they are scouts], I spray them with windex, which
burns the beggers up.  I also spray the windex around the area so that I can obscure their trail
so no ants can follow it.  I spray the foundation again with penetrating ant and roach spray.
And I put out more ant stakes around if I can't find the nest.

Huette

--- Heleen Greenwald <heleen at ptd.net> wrote:

> I need an opinion please..... I have had ants in my kitchen and  
> bathroom (right above the kitchen) off and on since July. Every time  
> I think I have the problem taken care of, I find a few more. These  
> are the tiniest ants I have ever seen. They certainly don't look like  
> roaches. I keep all my food in Tupperware containers.  If I wash the  
> kitchen down with ammonia water tomorrow do you think that will take  
> care of these tiny ants... or should I use bleach water?  Or should I  
> call the exterminator?  Has anybody else dealt with tiny ants that  
> won't go away.  btw, I never have many ants at one time, never more  
> than 5, usually 1 or 2.
> Thanks for any suggestions.
> 
> Phillipa
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