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The liquid sugar/borax and cotton ball method absolutely works. The first day there must have been 20 ants on the cotton balls. The second day only 2 ants. No ants after that.

I used icing sugar mixed with borax. I found they mixed better because the icing sugar is finer.

It worked...with liquid and cotton..Thank you so much.

Excellent presentation. Thanks for your advice.

I boiled water 1cup, 1/2 cup sugar, 2 tablespoons BORAX & a teaspoon of honey . Stirred up, soaked cotton balls in mixture laid them around where the ants had been seen. Checked in an hour they were all over it. When I got up the next morning there was maybe 6 ants crawling around. The day after that there were none, there gone. THANK YOU !!! 👍🏻 🙂 04-13-24

Thanks for your video. I tried making my own and had limited success over a several week period. I finally broke down and forked over 8 bucks at my local huge hardware store for some commercial grade T**** Liquid Ant Bait. Although we had hundreds of visible ants in 3 locations, within 24 hours the ants were gone. I'm a huge do-it-yourselfer (do everything around the house from plumbing to installing my own furnace and AC) but I couldn't get rid of those pesky ants until I bought this stuff.

thanks

It works!

Thankyou!

Thanks god bless

In powdered form ants can select sugar from borax, in liquid form they can take both. Adding some honey helps. Using mixture of sugar, honey, and borax with minimal amount of water looks more potent.

I boiled around 3/4 c of water in the microwave, then dumped in about 1/4 c each of sugar and borax. Stirred till it all dissolved, then soaked cotton balls and put them on plates where we had seen a bunch of ants. The critters are ignoring most of the plates, but in one location, they crowded around the cotton balls within an hour. I took a photo and would ove to submit it, but I don't know how

Great!

is the formula usable for how long?

How about in a carpeted bedroom, where I have a lot of fabric items stored in lidded plastic tubs, stacked in the closet? Some of the fabric items are out in the main part of the room, NOT in the lidded plastic tubs. We've found a bunch of ants crawling in the fabric; those we've shaken out outside and then tossed in the washer and they are ant-free. But the closet - I am confident that the ants aren't in the plastic tubs, but there are some fabric items out of the tubs there too. How about leaving some plates with borax-and-sugar-soaked cotton balls around the room, and with luck our little friends will take some back to their nest, which might be in the closet or under some of the furniture? (PS - our house has no pets or kids that might get into the borax/sugar solution)

Anybody know the shelf life of the water mix version?

I love this method 😁👍. I ended up mixing with water and then dehydrating into a brick.

I sprinkled a 50/50 mixture of sugar and borax and in a matter of minutes the ants were piled on top and by the next morning the pile was almost gone. Hopefully this gets rid of them because they are definitely attracted to the mixture

After making it, can i save it for use in the future? Do I have to boil it again or throw it away?

Thanks. The cotton ball link is outdated - it shows as cotton square.

I use white vinegar directly on the holes or mounds it works fast and costs less than $3.00 a gallon, Windex works too. Fast and easy.

Not sure what I am doing wrong but mixing the borax with sugar and water the mixture turns hard as a rock and they die there because they get stuck in it.

I sure hope this works, I've tried lemon on my countertop and it doesn't work which I herd it did and I've tried vinegar which I herd and it didn't work either.

What if the ants are coming from gardens near foundation? They come in my bedroom and bathroom, where there is no food. But I can't find a trail up the outside wall. Will it work if I sprinkle dry mixture along foundation of house?

Will this work on red ants??

Thanks a bunch! That's exactly the kind of ants that I see at my kitchen sink ! I am gonna try that. I have tried vinegar and water half and half mixture but they keep coming back. I will ceratainly leave a comment here if this works or doesn't work for me. This things sting ya too! It hurts for a little bit but then the pain goes away.

I use the cotton balls. Haven’t had ants in 5 years. I recommend it totally. MommaFaye

I make a liquid borax/syrup or sugar mixture and then take it outside. Placing it in quantity near ant trails or ant hills will take care of a major infestation in 24 hours.

too much sugar

Does it work for fire ants ???

Too much sugar you will give the ants diabetes !

I need to find a place to buy borax and be very careful with my pets. The dog only roams the floor, but the cat can climb places. So to I use normal vinegar as repelent. It does not expire, so it is a great thing to have a bottle to spray the vinegar. It is not a permanent solution like borax, but if you have no other way, that helps. Try to keep ants away from electronics. Ants already ruined an expensive TV. You cannot imagine how outraging it is. I would have gladly given them a place but no, they had to ruin exactly that.

I saw on MythBusters that olive oil stops ants. :)