10 Simple Ways To Get Rid Of Ants

Ants had been giving me a big headache these couple of weeks. It's also one of my reason to stop cooking for the past one week just to kill them all...

Everytime i step into the kitchen, i will see them.. and i will be washing up and killing the ants with hot water. I have to do that before it gets worst. Last week, i had washed up the whole kitchen just to find their home.. but sigh. Over the weekend, i see that the ants are getting lesser and not really that many already. I stopped tingkat and start cooking. Yesterday, Just one day... the ants army came back. Ended up my maid got scolding from me for not washing up the kitchen immediately after use...

I tried using ants poison - those that will bring home and kills the families.. waited for 2 weeks, there are still ants... the ants are so smart.. they will detour and avoid the poison...

Yesterday was in a chat room with my colleagues, and i see ants on my table and i pop out the question "how to get rid of the ants???" lol.. Thanks N and S had entertained me and provided some suggestion. S told me that ants scared baby powder, so I went to try baby powder, the same thing, they will detour too... N suggested to wait till the ants formed a line and use bygone to kills them all.. But i cant use bygone as Janelle someone who will touch everywhere and put inside the mouth.

Really cant stand it anymore and i did a google search and i found this:

10 Simple Ways To Get Rid Of Ants:

Discovered ants in your kitchen cabinet? Now worried about how to get rid of ants? Don’t worry you can get rid off ants with few simple and effective home remedies. Some of the home remedies to kill ants are listed below:

• White vinegar is considered to be effective home remedy to kill ants. Simply you have to spread white vinegar in areas affected by ants and you will get rid of ants in minutes.
  Thumbs up... I tired this method and it works, cheap and good... yesterday night i went down to sheng siong and get a bottle of white vinegar (pure one, dont get those artificial) which cost me $1.20 for a big bottle. After washing the kitchen, i mopped a layer of vinegar over kitchen tabletop, dinning table and cabinets where the ants will walk passed. Just before i sleep, i check the kitchen again, the ants are so much lesser already, and i put on another layer of vinegar just before i went to bed. This morning.. THERE IS NO MORE ANTS!!!
  




• You can use cucumber to get rid off ants. Ants don’t like the taste of cucumber. Placing small piece of cucumber in ants affected area will force them to leave your home.
  




• Spray soap water on the entry points of ants as well as cabinets and other areas. This is another effective home remedy to get rid off ants permanently.
  Tried but failed. Once the soap water dried up, the ants will come back again.
  


• Crush dried mint leaves and spread the powder in areas prone to ant attack. You can even use mint tea bags. This is considered to be one of the effective home remedies to kill ants.
  


• Add borax to sugar solution and dilute it a bit and spray it. This is considered to be highly effective home remedy to get rid of ants. You can even use borax in powder from to kill ants.
  


• Spreading chili powder on the hives and nests of ants is the best way to prevent ants entering your house.
  


• Another best way to check ants entering your house is to spray peppermint oil in all the room corners, kitchen and cabinets.
  


• Table salt is also one of the effective home remedies to get rid of ants. Add salt to boiling water and prepare a salt solution. Now spray this salt solution in all corners of your house.
  Tried but failed. The ants doesn't seems to scare of salt water. they will walk over it.
  


• Placing bay leaves across the tracks of ants is another effective way to get rid off of Ants.
  In the similar way you can spread cinnamon powder on the path followed by ants. This is considered to be effective way to march ants out of your house.

Pasted from <http://homeimprovements.ygoy.com/2009/03/03/home-remedies-to-kill-ants/>

Those i put on the red comments are methods i tried and my feedback... Those who has the same problem as me... go ahead and try the above methods and do drop me a comment to see which methods works.. Good Luck. :)