Powder...

Posted By: Judie on 2009-01-18
In Reply to: ants on the kitchen table - Eileen

Quick, inexpensive, and easy: Pour fine powder (baby powder, baking soda) at holes where the ants are entering. If they are progressing in a line across the floor, lay down a line of powder so they will not cross.

It seems that they get stuck in the powder and can't continue. You will find that literally just a few make it across the barrier, but nobody is coming behind them. There will be some laying dead in and around the powder

Otherwise, they seem to tell their sibling, friends, and distant cousins that it's a no-go, find another route--and that trail just dries up.

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ants on the kitchen table - Eileen
- Lysol works great!! Either spray or Lysol Bathroom cleaner. nm - Homebody
- Powder... - Judie
- Windex.........nm - deenibeeni
- try Listerine in a spray bottle - marceia
- ants on the table - ej
- try cinnamon. - nm
- Ant bait - Happy MT Robin
  - ants remedy - RJ
    - You know what else I discovered? - Happy MT Robin
      - If you have kids you have to be careful sm - frugalfannie
- Look for a product in the store that...sm - Moo
- maybe spray outside the house around the base? NM - anon
- They sell these droplets that you put on paper and it attracts them and they stick (sm) - MeMT

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