Sagus and I just started getting these HUGE really awful ants in our kitchen! I HATE ANTS! Tell me please how to KILL THEM DEAD! And stop returning ants!!! HELP!

Try these Ideas I copied from a site.

Repellents: Ants can be repelled by vinegar, cayenne pepper, citric extracts, bone meal, cinnamon, cream of tartar, salt, and perfume. You will have to keep trying different repellents to find the one your ants aren't willing to tolerate. Place lines of the selected repellent at points of entry and at various points along their path.

Insecticides: There are two ways to kill ants. The first is to dehydrate them by laying out piles of instant grits ( a corn product usually located in the cereal section of the grocery store) at the point of entry and along their trail. They will think of the grits as a food source and consume the pellets. The grits will in turn absorb moisture from the ant's body, thus killing it (instant grits are specially formulated to absorb water more rapidly than regular grits, thus they are more effective). The second method to kill ants is to feed them a mixture of 1 part active dry yeast, 2 parts molasses, and 1 part sugar. They will be attracted to the sugar in the mixture and will eat it readily. Once consumed the yeast will produce gas in the ant, and because they can't expel the gas, it will kill them.

Another method of elimination involves the elimination of the nest. If you can find the nest, you can try pouring boiling water over the nest. If that isn't sufficient, you can try adding cayenne pepper to the boiling water, or using citrus extracts. If you have multiple nests, you could dig up a bucket of ants from one nest and dump it on another nest. Ants are very territorial, and they will readily hunt and kill invading colonies.

IF THIS FAILS " NUKEM "


><}}}}Q>
~~~~~~~

orange peels..... they seem to dislike the citrus...

These sound like carpenter ants. Big, black ants, about 1/2" long on an adverage.

These can be just as bad as termites. While termites eat the wood and live in the ground, carpenter ant live in the wood and eat what ever the can find. They will have a main nest and several outpost nest. They will set these outpost near the food source. Kitchen floor, great for a snack.

They prefer damp wood, any type of wood. Trees, or the lumber of your house.

Seeing ants in your kitchens does not mean you have them living in you house. Those may just be foragers looking for a snack.

I must warn you, have you house check before you find one side starting to sag. We found that out in or old house. Look for damp wood from a leak in the roof or from the foundation. Keep dirt and mulch away from the wood house foundations. Small saw dust piles even though you don't do wood working. Check you trees, especially if they are close to the house.

Wash the brick or cement foundation around your house. This will break their scent tail that they navigate by. Won't be able to find their way to the kitchen. This is unless they have a bivouac site IN your house.

An old farmer showed me a trick. He took some axial grease and pull a 2" wide ring of it all around the tree 6' up. Came back a couple of hours later and found hundreds of them trying to figure out how to cross it. Coming and going. He determined that that was the nest tree, cut it down. He was right.