get hot pepper and lay it down in little dishes around your kitchen area. We haven’t had any ants since we did that. Cheap and effective way to get them out.
Perhaps the pepper scared away the small pieces of food left around because everyone knows the pepper is the bully vegetable. So there was no food for the ants, so they went elsewhere. So your theory is wrong Jubba, but still works :beam:
But do your research next time, you made yourself look like dummy!
It worked for us at our old house. We put small dishes with hot crushed red pepper in them. After a week or so we had less ants and then after 2 weeks they were gone. We didn’t really have any serious problems with them after that.
We are guessing that they eat it and they don’t like the spicyness and they stay away. Best thing to do tho is to make sure that your house is crumb-free while you have the pepper down, or they will go for the crumbs and not eat the pepper. But if you have large amounts of this pepper available they will still take it and then they left…
Spraying vinegar in any opening to your house (doorway bottom windows, etc) where they usually come in does a good job a lot.
Also rice. When ants eat rice it expands inside them and kills them. They bring it back to the colony for the colony to feed on, sometimes pretty effective, but not all the time.
I have heard that New Yorkers in Manhattan put out little bowls of coca cola and when the rats drink it, since they cannot burp or fart, they implode. Kinds neat hunh? :!: