Faire D'Income

Ants. They've taken over the asylum here. Any good ideas how to get rid of them efficiently and quickly as I need to get rid of them this weekend but I can't find where they're coming from.

Any help out there?

Hammy Hamster

Don't tread on an ant, he's done nothing to you. Unplug the juke box..

I've always found Ant Powder very effective indoors and out.

*Always read the label.

Spoon

Should be easy to follow a trail to where they are coming from.

I use ant powder and put a bit down at the entrance/exit and that solves any problem I've had pretty rapidly.

RichWalk

Buy an Ant-eater, available from all good branches of B&Q.

ajm

You really need to find out where they are coming from in order to do any meaningful damage to their population! Ant traps are well and good, but they don't stop other ants following the pheromone trails in to your house, you need to get to the nest!

What are the precise circumstances of your formic infestation?

Spoon

You try stopping the fúcker from barking though when it's hungry.

Faire D'Income

This is the problem. I've found one of their nests in the polythene sack containing the Strawberries but the other mob coming into the house are more elusive.

Any particular brand of ant powder or are they much of a muchness?

ajm

All pretty much the same, I think the active ingredient is sodium fluoride, so the more of that they have in the better!

Edited to add: looking at some I have here it may have permethrin or boric acid as the active ingredient. Just buy whatever has the most of the whatever the active ingredient is and the least bulking agents like flour.

Gidney&Knowlesy

To know your enemy....

http://www.antnest.co.uk/

or buy an "antfarm".............

the chosen one

yeah had a bad infestation in my kitchen, just had to give it a once over because of all the sugar around the kitchen which is what they after, personally i just squash the buggers, but yeah also found ant powder a good solution to help aswell

ProperCharlie

must be the time of year - the b*stards are in my kitchen, too. they seem to be coming from somewhere beneath the fitted units, which is tiresome...

zoog

me too - it seems a good yr for ants.............