General Chat

I have them all over my kitchen worksurfaces - YUK! Every morning when I come down into the kitchen, there they are hiding under the dishcloth and even under the kettle. I have to clean up before I can make my cuppa! They are coming in around my kitchen window, but I can't find out where. The only thing that stops them is Raid spray. I spray it all around the window frame most nights before I go to bed and every 2 or 3 days I spray it all around the outside frame and outside where the pipes come through the wall. That is the only thing I've found that stops them, even if it's only for a couple of days. I think I have tried everything on the market and nothing else seems to work. It's only in the last 4 or 5 years that I have had a problem, before then I never had ants indoors. I don't know what's changed to make them love my house so much :o) Sue xx

There is a great product called something like 'Deth Lac' it is a spray that puts a sort of film down used it once a couple of year ago not seen an ant in the kitchen since. Worth a try think you can get it at most hard ware stores. (it is in a green and white tin I think) watch where you put it though it is a sort of gluey stuff and leaves a film. Germaine

I think the ants are taking over.....woooooooooo lol BC

your a crule lot poor wee ants

Move out!

It's them or us Ben........lol BC

Doff ant powder is also good as is the boiling water. Ann

Try spraying the place where they are with Lavender.....and you have to keep on doing it! My nan gave me that advice and it does work if you keep on it! Spray every entrance daily (it's not a bad smell) and keep doing it. Worked for me!!!

I brought in some plants from the greenhouse and there must have been ants eggs in the soil because suddenly there were loads of ants on the windowsill. As soon as I took the plants away again and cleaned away the ants, no more appeared. Reminds me of a time in Malta when my son was small - we went out leaving a bottle of squash on a worktop and when we got back there was this army of ants marching in a line in from the balcony, under the door, up the units and along the worktop to the squash bottle. They were the tiniest ants I had ever seen and my son said 'Oh look, anorexic ants' (Apologies to anyone who is anorexic). Now even tho he is grown up he still calls tiny ants anorexic ants. I think my mum used to use a mixture of boracic powder and icing sugar so they took it back to their nests and it killed them sweetly.

I don't know if you can get this product over there it's called 'Ant B Gone', it works wonders. We came in one evening a few years back and there was an 'army' of ants marching in a line to my medicine cabinet in the kitchen. They had got in under the kitchen door. They were after the sugar wax that I keep there. The poison is a liquid that they swarm around and take back to the colony. Last year I came home on my lunch hour to another line from my front door up the hall heading into the kitchen. I squirted the stuff outside to stop them. By the next day they were gone. No doubt they will be back this year. Deb