How to Get Rid of Ants
In general, I don’t like killing bugs. If I can simply send them back out into the world, so much the better. We periodically get ants in the house where I live. If one ant finds our cat food dish or a pizza box sitting on the counter, suddenly 20 ants, then 50, then too many ants to count are marching through the house on the way to the first ant’s discovery. You can never squish or drown ants fast enough to stop the dozens more that also learned about food. Poisons treat the problem, but not the source. The best way to cut off a steady stream of ants is to find where they are entering and seal it off. I do this with baby powder. Think about all those bad horror movies with voodoo where they pour brick dust across an entrance to keep out enemies. Baby powder works the same way by blocking the ants scent trail. Ants already in your house walk around lost until they die, unable to find their way back to the colony. Ants outside your house won’t ever come in because they hit a dead end at the baby powder. Using this method of prevention often takes detective work to see where ants came from - if you put baby powder at the wrong opening, they’ll just keep coming.
Anyone got a favorite method of eliminating ants?
ants, baby powder
ring your house with chalk dusk (you can buy ‘em at your home improvement store - they’re sold as chalk line refills).