HELP ME I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO TO GET RID OF THOSE PESTY ANTS
I am finding them everywhere where is no food around they are in my craft closet they come in under the wood work. I have tried bombing the house, spray of all kinds and the those ant traps.. If I could figure out where the nest is I would kill them ants I hate them. They are nasty
Did you find your way to this forum through the How to Get Rid of Sugar Ants article? Most of the advice I can give you on the matter is found on that page. If you're still having problems after following that advice, please feel free to reply here and we'll do our best to help you out.
- Jonathan
I am having the same problem with the sugar ants (or little black ants). We've been using the sweet bait for three weeks and keeping up with the cleaning tips from the article but the ants seem to keep coming out...even more now.
Any other suggestions? How do you track down their nest to get rid of them all?
It may be time to call a professional exterminator if your ant problem is growing worse and commercial ant baits aren't working. But, let me look into this and see what I can come up with.
So what do you do if the professionals don't work either? We have had an exterminator for 2 years now coming every month in the summer and we still have problems. What do we do now?
Where you do you live? I would suggest getting into contact with a local university extension office...or a biology department. Generally speaking, entomologists are relatively helpful when it comes to identifying the insect you're having troubles with, and they may be able to offer you some advice that I'm incapable of providing because I'm not familiar with the environment you're dealing with.
For an example, here is a link to our extension office at the University of Minnesota: http://www.extension.umn.edu/
I hope this helps. I'm afraid that's all the help I can give you at the moment.
I've had 'little black ants' many times, but now I have a real problem. They have set up camp inside my very expensive coffee/espresso machine!! I can't exactly spray the inside with a pesticide...
I have saturated an old towel with Sevin and set the machine on top of that. I have used canned air to try blowing them out....but God only knows how many are in there. If it were an inexpensive coffee maker, I'd throw it out and buy a new one, but that's not an option.
Please, please...I hope someone out there can tell me what to do!
(We entertained the idea of taking the machine apart, but it looks very complicated and quite frankly, it scares me to think of ruining the machine by making a mistake)
Thank you in advance.
Um, if you've got ants in your coffeemaker you may just have to take it apart and clean it out. I don't know what else to tell you. Does anyone else have a suggestion? I wouldn't recommend putting ant baits or poison anywhere near your coffeemaker, even though Terro is pretty harmless since it's just Boric Acid in syrup.
I think you'll have to chance it and disassemble that beast.
I live in the N.E. I've had these little ants every year but this is the first year they have inhabited my kitchen counter. It seems the nest must be behind my dishwasher as they keep coming out from between the dishwasher and adjacent counter. Short of calling in someone to pull the dishwasher out, is there anything I could spray in the tiny crevice between cabinet and dishwasher? These ants seem mostly interested in water. I tried putting sugar and borax out but they didn't take the bait. I thought I might have put too much borax so I just put plain sugar but they were not interested in the sugar. Are these different ants or just the same ants during a different seasonal period?
I've had very good results with COMBAT ANT KILLING GEL from Home Depot. Worked on small black ants and also on big brown ones. Killed the colonies.
Thanks for suggestion to disassemble my coffeemaker. It's a large espresso/coffee machine, very expensive, and even my mechanical engineer son-in-law was more than reluctant to take it apart. I'm persevering. The ants 'seem' to be on the decline and I monitor the site every day. It's a long road.
Thanks again.
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