How to Get Rid of Ants

[Errata]

You don't need the nest to die, you just need the ants that scout your apartment to never return.

They should have thought of that before breaking and entering.

[Scarlet Knight]

With a knife! I can guarantee you those ants aren't tough enough to stand up to steel. Cut 'em in half,not all of them just most of them. You need some to escape and tell the others what happened.

Roy Spim lost his left arm battling with an ant !

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[Temotei]

If you want something more natural (and possibly less expensive) than poisons, you can try peppermint oil. I heard it interferes with the way they navigate, I don't know if that's true but they do tend to stay off surfaces I've wiped with it. And there's the whole minty freshness thing!

I've this weird ant problem for a while, hundreds of them kept coming in. Not in the kitchen for the food, but into the shower. I don't know what they were coming for as both the wife and I are a bit anal about cleanliness. In the end only the peppermint oil worked...

I can vouch for it. Mum's into this oils business and she gave me a bunch. I just put some on tissue paper and set them next to the cracks in the walls and floor. They stopped coming after a day or two.

[Adam75]

Clean the place properly and don’t keep food at that place. You can also poison the corners to get rid of ants. Last month I had pest control done at my home from a reputed Pest control Port Macquarie firm. They told me all these methods.

[007_ctrl_room]

... On a college budget. Roommate's yucked up the place, and they're starting to mingle around my desk.

"Borrow" friend's / roomates cleaning supplies and start spraying and praying

[Fragenstein]

Ants, huh? We had quite a severe ant problem at the Vineyard this year. I had Art Garfunkle come by with his compressor and we created a total vacuum outside the house and we blew the ants out the front door. But I'm sure you high-tech Internet people could care less about our resort-town ways.

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