How to KILL carpenter ants? Damn ants!

[Scrooge]

what's with all the ants? I just found out that my house was infested with ants as well.

So far we must have spent like $50 on ant baits and nothing has worked. I was at home depot and there were at least 5 other people buying ant killers. Seems like lot's of people in BC is having this problem. Must be this years weather........... We didn't have this problem last year Now like clockwork they come out in hordes under our front door.........

[Scrooge]

I think half the battle is finding out where they are comming from. Most likely from foundation cracks ,so you might have to start looking outside first and tackle the problem from there.

I have a few soldiers coming into the house, and one crawled up on my blanket before. this season is much better than last. I found out their outside location, but couldn't get a grasp at killing them. so far so good, but you definitely need to find the outside source first.

Yup, they seem to be coming out of the foundationi crack and I started sealing it up with cement and seems to work oK but I can't seem to get the crack that's right under the front door. Very hard to see where the crack is and hard to reach..........

[m77m7]

Don't waste your money on those poisonous products like RAID. You can use some simple (and cheap) household products. If they are in your house, clean the areas very well with any household cleaner like Mr.Clean or VIM, and pour comet (the cleaning powder) on the holes and crevices that they are entering from. As long as the powder is there, they won't come in from there. The day the powder was placed, the ants stopped coming in my house .

Comet is really really cheap from Wal-mart and Zellers. 1 bottle of RAID ant powder (toxic) is like $9, and a similarly sized can of Comet is $1.27 (non-toxic).

From my research online (ie. google), a product called "Terro" works very well but I believe its only found in the US as people were mentioning it is available at WalMart, but the ones I went to don't carry it -- only RAID

[hammer]

someone mentioned soap so I use diluted dishwasher fluid...wow...kill them by the thousands!! thanks!!!

[me!]

someone mentioned soap so I use diluted dishwasher fluid...wow...kill them by the thousands!! thanks!!!

that would be me! It works and is perfectly safe for all members of the household, even pets.

[bug]

I had an infestation of them this spring. I bought a box of ant traps and set them in various areas. I still see a few now and then, but not the numbers that were present before. I have a tree outside that they're destroying now

[vancouverforsale]

Speak to them politely, "Sorry, this my home, go build your shed elsewhere." If they go on a rant about how Anarchism doesn't believe in private property, tell them to go build an comunity-made commune. Tell them I'll join the community too, if they start one, it's hard to find one now days with this whole, "me me me scenario" going on everywhere.

[usando]

I've heard that anything with boric acid works well to kill ants and cockroaches. I just got some from Home Hardware. It's pretty cheap compared to the Insect-B-Gone stuff with diatomaceous earth.

I'll post my results later.