Ants

[J Dunlap]

Jack Rabbit wrote: think the home remedy is baking soda and lemon juice, but then again I could be thinking of the remedy for acne or some other ailment. Or maybe the recipe for a home volcano or a small explosive? :~ :rolleyes:

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[Navin]

Yes. It's ironic that I would like to attract more ladies to my house... but this is not quite what I intended. :) No single raindrop believes that it is responsible for the flood.

[Kant]

Rama Krishna wrote: to keep sugar and all other stuff in the refrigerator Eat the laddus quickly.... ;P
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[Phil Martin]

I've had a few successful ways of discouraging ants from the house, though none fit the criterea of non-harmful. For interiors: - Get some borax, and mix a teaspoon with maybe a couple of table spoons of honey. - Place this mixtue in a small container thats easy for ants to climb on, and pepper these around the house or where ants go. - They absolutely love the honey, and will eats it up in no time, carrying the borax back home and killing the colony, or at least reducing it in numbers. For exteriors: - mix 1 table spoon of borax to 3 handfuls of blood and bone. - Mix up that ratio to the desired amount in a bucket. - Sprinkle it in large handfuls around your house. The ants love the blood and bone, and will also eat up the borax, with the same effect as above. Bonus is next time you water it will act as a great fertiliser for your yard as well. I've used it a couple of times, and the ants left for at least a month. Another thing to note, is that those little tiny black ants (at least where I live, middle east coast of australia) are perdators of white ants. Large infestations of these type of tiny black ants often indicates some form of nest of white ants. Might be worth looking into.