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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 60311" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>We often get serious ant problems in summer, especially. They not only come after ANY dropped food, but also after water. I keep a bottle of water beside my bed, with one of those pop-tops on it. If I leave the top open (so I can grab the bottle for a quick drink) then in ant plague times, they cluster inside drinking the water, and I get a mouthful of ants.</p><p></p><p>Not to be recommended.</p><p></p><p>Prevention - talcum powder sprinkled round where they're getting in is supposed to help - we haven't found it works well, though.</p><p></p><p>What works best - a mixture of sugar and borax, mixed with enough water to make a sort of wet paste. Keep it away from dogs and kids... you don't need much, a few drops of it near where the ants are getting in. Put some in a bottle cap in an out-of-the-way spot near where they're coming in, but safe from dogs and babies. Ours come in via the kitchen windowsill, so we keep a lidful there, up the end where they come in. They eat it and take it back to the nest.</p><p></p><p>When you want to clean it up - it washes off easily. A bit sticky, but once the sticky is gone, so is the borax.</p><p></p><p>A lot of similar, commercially sold ant poisons have the same stuff in them.</p><p></p><p>Try and find where they're getting in. At various times we've been horrified to find a nest in a cavity wall of the house - when easy child was a baby and we had a few too many ants in our bedroom (where we had the baby, too) husband dropped some anticholinesterase powder down the cavity wall and there turned out to have been a HUGE nest there, the ants seemed to almost ooze through the wall, like something out of a horror movie. Every possible crevice became an escape-way for ants, into our bedroom. I moved myself and easy child into another bedroom until they were cleared.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 60311, member: 1991"] We often get serious ant problems in summer, especially. They not only come after ANY dropped food, but also after water. I keep a bottle of water beside my bed, with one of those pop-tops on it. If I leave the top open (so I can grab the bottle for a quick drink) then in ant plague times, they cluster inside drinking the water, and I get a mouthful of ants. Not to be recommended. Prevention - talcum powder sprinkled round where they're getting in is supposed to help - we haven't found it works well, though. What works best - a mixture of sugar and borax, mixed with enough water to make a sort of wet paste. Keep it away from dogs and kids... you don't need much, a few drops of it near where the ants are getting in. Put some in a bottle cap in an out-of-the-way spot near where they're coming in, but safe from dogs and babies. Ours come in via the kitchen windowsill, so we keep a lidful there, up the end where they come in. They eat it and take it back to the nest. When you want to clean it up - it washes off easily. A bit sticky, but once the sticky is gone, so is the borax. A lot of similar, commercially sold ant poisons have the same stuff in them. Try and find where they're getting in. At various times we've been horrified to find a nest in a cavity wall of the house - when easy child was a baby and we had a few too many ants in our bedroom (where we had the baby, too) husband dropped some anticholinesterase powder down the cavity wall and there turned out to have been a HUGE nest there, the ants seemed to almost ooze through the wall, like something out of a horror movie. Every possible crevice became an escape-way for ants, into our bedroom. I moved myself and easy child into another bedroom until they were cleared. Marg [/QUOTE]
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