Safe Non Toxic
Safe Non Toxic
non toxic way to get rid of ants in the house?
Hey I was hoping that someone could tell me a safe non toxic way to get rid of sugar ants or piss ants as they are also known
I have a child and pets so I was hoping to get some safe ideas I heard baking soda but that doesnt seem to be working
they are in my living room and seem to be coming from behind the couch. We moved the couch and cleaned and vaccuumed behind it and the one spot it looked like they were coming from I used tape over it and baking soda all around but they came back and there isnt anything around for them to really feed on but they seem to be looking pretty hard.
There are lots of ways to get rid of ants safely! Generally there are a few things you can do.
1. Keep your house clean and keep food closed. If you don't feed them, they'll be less likely to visit.
2. If you do find a trail, vacuum up the ants, or wipe them up. Always wipe after to vacuum, because you want to get rid of the chemical trail they leave back to the nest.
3. If you can find where they enter the house, plug it! As a kid, I used to put a piece of tape over the hole, as an adult I would probably use some caulking for a more permanent solution.
4. Use a bait. If you can, use a bait which has a very low amount of pesticide and is enclosed. If you kill the scouts, that's not really damaging the nest. You give the scouts some poisoned bait to take home and feed the colony, and you've killed the colony! The only thing you want to make sure of if you use baits, is that you keep them out of reach of your children and pets. It is a concentrated (and contained) amount of pesticide.
I would recommend going to this site for more info. It is from the University of California, Davis and gives a lot more options for getting rids/controlling ants. They're not just for Californians either! I think it's somthing like 70% of home pesticides are used on ants. Crazy!
http://ipm.ucdavis.edu/ <-- general site
http://ipm.ucdavis.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7411.html <-- specific ant site
Good luck!
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