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How to get rid of ants?

NYCHitman1 said:
Threw down some traps. I'll post back when I have any further details.
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Hopefully they're not borg ants like in that other thread. :D

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Our don't seem to get in the house. We do get those damn flying ones, but they stay in one place and don't get in the food. Raid spray gets rid of them.

The ones that bite in the yard are a problem. They are not fire ants.

What we get in the house is carpet beetles. Have no idea where they nest, but they will eat anything organic.
 
zuben el genub said:
Our don't seem to get in the house. We do get those damn flying ones, but they stay in one place and don't get in the food. Raid spray gets rid of them.

The ones that bite in the yard are a problem. They are not fire ants.

What we get in the house is carpet beetles. Have no idea where they nest, but they will eat anything organic.
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The ants with the wings are swarmers and are a stage they go through. If you have them in the house you most likely have the workers too, you just don't see them. It's the ants you don't see that do the damage.
 
Borax and powdered sugar worked well for an infestation here. Soak some cotton balls in the mixture and watch them feast. Gets them at the source. They feed it to the queen and she goes kaput.

Ultimately you need to find where they are coming in though, seal it up and keep the area free of food.
 
We usually see the swarmers in 2 places. One is the bathroom, the other under the lintel of the front steps. If the workers are in the house, there is nothing for them to eat. Since we have had carpet beetles, everything is in containers that bugs can't get into.

I have had ants in the house. I baked one into a corn muffin. The trailer we lived in when we first moved here was over an ant hill.
 
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