![]() ![]() Borax is tried and true for ants, roaches, box elder bugs and book weevils/carpet weevils. Ants can be beneficial but most of us don’t want bugs of any kind in the house. Is the stuff you are using the really fine corn flour (white and powdery?). Although it worked somewhat it didn’t get rid of our ant problem. I also tried putting down polenta (is that the coarse version of corn flour?!). I don’t think they worked at all – either the ants were just not interested in the poison or else they were too big to fit through the openings. I tried the little sealed boxes where you pop the corners off and the ants are supposed to go in and collect the poison. Since it’s a vegetable patch AND we have kids running all over the place I don’t really want to put down ant poison. We also have three little children, and the rather aggressive red ants made it almost impossible for them to be around the vegetable patch last summer. I’m allergic to ant bites and even one bite makes me swell up like a balloon, lol. We have a vegetable patch and have a real red ant (fire ant?) problem. Booyah!Ĭheck out my DIY Pinterest board for more easy tips and tricks. Every single ant was gone within a few days. I repeated with a second box of cornstarch the next day and again the sprinklers just hit the spot to get the cornstarch wet. I put down a box of Cornstarch and allowed the sprinklers to come on as usual. Like I initially though there was an oil spill or something because the pavement was totally black. This year we actually had a MOUNTAIN of ants that suddenly popped up in the backyard. UPDATE: This has worked many times for me since posting a few years ago. So this is worth a shot- just note they will still slug around in the corn starch for awhile but they should be gone within a day or two. I did check it out this morning (Wednesday) and we still have a little pile of corn starch to be rinsed away but not an ant in sight! I spread this on Monday and we were actually not home yesterday. If this is indoors, you might try a spritzing bottle or something. If this is outdoors- turn on sprinklers or use a watering can to get the cornstarch piles nice and very damp. The cornstarch will become like a cement mixture and will kill the ants. ![]() You need a bit of patience to allow them ample time to carry the cornstarch back. I had a pretty good size patch so I just used about 1/3 of the box and dumped it everywhere. If this is in your home you can just put the cornstarch in a measuring cup and pour it right over the path they are marching in. So I followed the crack in the pavement and dumped the cornstarch generously over the path they made, where they came from and the spot on the ground under the trash. Now I wasn’t that interested in becoming close friend with these things so it is hard to see but we had a bunch of them climbing all over in the trash and just under the trash. I just went out side two days ago and found a bunch of ants crawling around the garbage can (BLECH!). You want to be sure the corn starch is in the path they walk because you want them picking it up and carrying it back home with them. Just grab a standard box of corn starch- my box was $1.00 at Walmart so you can certainly be generous in applying this.Īnd dump it all over the ants. In California, ants can really be a problem and I absolutely can not stand them for even a second and this tip has worked like magic for me many times.Įven better you don’t need to buy expensive products, dump all sorts of chemicals around the house or mix up complicated DIY recipes. Call me a terrible person, but any sort of rodent, bug, snake comes along and I am ready to put the house up for sale. My Dad taught me this a few years ago when we had a trail of ants marching across the front stoop of the house. If you have any of those pesky little ants wandering around the house or yard you might try this little trick to get rid of them. Here is something kind of random but I was dealing with this the other day and thought some of you might be interested as well.
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