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My mother in law lived in a trailer park and had these terrible. They were worried about their animals. I mixed boric acid with molasses, poured a little in the bottom of old soda cans so the pets couldn’t get to it. I placed them in the planters and tossed a few under the house. They were gone for years.

Years ago I put out two caps with boric acid and sugar and enough water to make a syrup. In about two days they were gone for years. Then about two weeks ago they came back so I did the syrup yesterday and today they have disappeared. Hope they stay gone for years again. 💖👏👏👏🤗

That one super ant dragging the huge chunk of food and one of his buddies must work out a lot! LOL 🏋️💪🐜😄

Also Apparently adult ants eat the liquid but baby ants eat solid, so if you put a piece of waffle or bread into the solution the ants will take chunks of it back to feed the young in the colony.

When you see ants trailing to the bait. Move the bait closer to their entry point. Go outside and see if you can find ant trails coming into the houses. Place the bait outside, seal up the entry points. The majority of time, ants are looking for moisture inside. And they are nesting in moisture areas outside. Solve the moisture sources and you can solve many pest problems.

Thanks for this! Now I can get rid of both of my pet anteaters. They were getting expensive to maintain.

Great content.

I have never tried mixing the acid into something... Good idea

I use Borax and icing sugar - doesn't leave a sticky mess that way and it seems to work.

Not sure where I picked this up but I also used boric acid and sugar or a little syrup….. it does work great. I do like the apple juice idea. I will try that next time.

Thanks, I have used a sugar, borax and water mix in closed jam glasses with "doors" for the little rascals which also knocked their socks off and yes, they come back after a while and I'll try your solution to see which one they like more or which one works better.

You are awesome! I live in a little old trailer in the forest beside a river and these mofos are hard to get rid of. This is a perfect mostly non toxic solution! 🙉🙈🙊

I didn't have many ants this year, but they were always right near where I was sitting using my laptop. Occasionally one would suddenly appear on my screen and startle the hell out of me. I get the creepy crawlies around indoor insects. But there was never, ever a trail. Most of the time it was just one damn ant. If it had been in the kitchen at least that would have made sense. But no - it would be here crawling on the lampshade beside me or the sofa I'm sitting on or the coffee table in front of me - or in the bathroom on the wall. I found the colony outside and covered it liberally in borax, and the indoors was ant-free for several days, but it didn't last. Even the exterminators' treatment didn't completely eliminate them, which is VERY unusual. I have cats so would have to find a good way to set up a trap with liquid. I'm sort of concerned, though, that next year that sweeeet liquid might attract more of them. Any thoughts, anyone?

Thank you for your great tips

Thanks, great tip. I most certainly will try this method immediately. 😊

Great video 👍

Thank you for posting this helpful video

I have in my house ty for this

Thanks for sharing this! Bought a pound of boric acid today... hopefully get rid of some wasps around here.

Put it in a soda can if you have pets around. Sugar in the soda attracts them also.

Get 20 Mule Team soap power it has Boric Acid. Mix sugar with equal parts. Any store has this soap.

Works great

I melt an old Christmas candy cane with some borax in water, heat until it thickens and put in bottle caps placed in problem areas.

Thank you!

I have a bad trail of them in my kitchen after my plants. Twenty Mule Team Borax washing powder in the laundry section at the grocery store. They started picking up bits and taking them back with them to where they came from.

Thank you

Just saw a similar video with about 1/2 coffee cup boiling water, borax (2 spoonfuls) and about 2 spoonfuls of honey mixed in. Trying that right now.

I've also had luck in the past using borax in 2 forms, 1) Terro brand liquid ant killer (5.4% borax, 94.6% "other ingredients"); this is a syrup-like liquid that works when the ants are looking for something sweet. And 2) borax powder mixed with peanut butter, which worked when the ants were looking for protein. I've read that depending on the time of the year, they are either looking for sweet food or protein food. This approach worked for several years of multiple infestations until our last major infestation a couple of years ago. I put out both my Terro and peanut butter mix (placed separately on small pieces of plastic wrap), but several days later the ants were still coming and going in large quantities. I thought about how effective Orthene fire ant bait (a white powder available at my local Walmart) had been for me in the lawn killing entire mounds of fire ants in less than a day, and thought it would be worth a try with my current home infestation of regular ants. So, I located the place in the house where the ant trail disappeared under a piece of tile/carpet transition wood trim. I placed a small bit of Orthene powder (about the size of an English pea) on the floor and went on about my business. Several hours later I noticed a significant decrease in the number of ants. The next morning when I got up I checked my Orthene bait location and I could not see any ants anywhere! Months later we had another infestation at a different entry point. I placed another bit of Orthene where the ant trail disappeared under the quarter round underneath a window. The ants completely disappeared in less than a day! Remember, Orthene is a poison, so be careful if you have small children or pets and be sure and place the bait in a way that the little ones can't get to it. Hope this helps.

The ants coming into our place go after the cat food we put down for our cats. If our cats don't eat much of their food when it is first put down, ants will basically take it over. Then our cats won't go near their bowls. There are other things the ants go after as well, like what is in the trash can, or in dishes not yet washed. Now some of these things can be solved by rinsing the ants off with hot water, which if hot enough cooks them to death immediately, but these ants are coming in from multiple openings they are able to fit through. Wish I had some Boric Acid, as I would certainly use it in a solution something similar to yours. Thanks for this video!

It's a great solution, no pun intended!!!😄

No fuss, no muss, no fluff. 😉 My kinda vid.👌

You need to consider the air speed in the hose. Higher air speed will carry larger particles. A larger diameter hose is not necessarily better, probably worse as air speed is more important than total volume flow. There are always tradeoffs, the idea of “one” better solution is misguided. It is good to consider both pros and “cons.”

Aloha, thanks.

I've used a mixture of Borax laundry detergent and sugar (50-50) that works "okay." I'm going to try your method. Thanks.

Free housecleaning lol

I pour hot water... they left... Came back did it again... they haven't been back. 😂

I'm having a lot of luck getting rid of ants with a flame thrower. It also works great with eliminating uni-brows!!! (seriously, this borax w/ apple juice mix works great!)

Brilliant!!! Thanks!

Thanks for the tips! Something that I find works for the ants as well is baby powder, it kills them and keeps them away. Only problem is, it can be a little messy. A HUGE problem we are having in southwest Virginia is gnats, they are everywhere! They get in through my windows and I have yet to figure out how to get rid of them!

I wouldn't store the poison solution in something that looks like a food container. The way I do your method is I use sugar water (because I already mix this up to fill hummingbird feeders). I just mix it as I use it. The ants I'm battling are Argentine ants - an invasive species that has displaced native ants. What I do is mix a little boric acid with the sugar and water in a small cup. Look for ant & roach powder at places like Home Depot $12 will last you 20 years. Just make sure the label says Active Ingredient: Boric Acid - you don't need any dangerous pesticides. Initially mix in some but not much boric acid, you want them to start feeding and not mind the boric acid. Once they start feeding you then keep increasing the amount of boric acid so long as they'll keep coming . When they stop coming and they're no where else in your kitchen you've wiped out the entire colony. I've been wiping out colonies of these ants using this method for twenty years. At the moment my ratty old California house, still full of gaps and cracks, has no ants. I wiped out the last assault months ago and they've yet to return. I strongly suspect that the Terro ant trap business model is: You buy a $7 Terro thing and keeps the ants busy for a few weeks, distracting them from the rest of your kitchen. You think it's working. When the trap is sucked dry, they head over to your countertop and you go out and buy another Terro trap, Repeat, repeat, repeat. DIY Homestead and my method is dirt cheap, safe and highly effective. The only problem with an open container is it dries out. As soon as it's a sugar crystal they stop coming. I've put tinfoil and saran wrap over the top, or I just check them every few days and mix in a little water. A few dribbles painted on the side of the cup and a stick down into the mixture makes it easier for them find it and get to it, speeding up the process.

"Bruce, here..." too.

will this work on fire ants ?

I scooped out some vanilla ice cream for my dog and failed to put the scooper in the sink in water. It was out on the kitchen counter all night. When I got to the counter on the next morning, the scooper had about 65 million little picnic ants licking up residue ice cream from inside the scooper. The sight of it makes my hurl. What I might do is just mix some boric acid in ice cream and leave it out in a paper plate of the counter overnight. No children to worry about and my little dog can't get on the counter.

I'm trying this I'm in an all out Caddyshack style war with these tiny monsters everytime I think I've killed them they just move locations and come back with a vicious attack

soak some cotton balls/pads in the solution and put those out if you dont want to worry about a container or ants drowning instead of eating and returning to nest. YOu will have to resoak the pads if they dry out, but thats easy.

Thanks for the tip, they are called pharaoh ants

They would share the solids like foods but liquid? I am septical. How the hell can they share liquid?

Ants are everywhere inside the house, I think some are from my neighbor house since I live in condo complex. I see them outside, bathroom, kitchens different spots, I used commercial ones and borax with sugar they are gone for a week then come back again! 🤪

Cedarcide oil really helps to keep ants away but it's not a permanent solution but it does help and it does keep bedbugs away permanently and you can spray it all over your mattress and the gussets in your mattress and all around your bed and every place and it won't hurt you

I didn’t poison them. I just put a bit off grease around the piers they were climbing up. No more ants!

Born in NE Ohio, we referred to these as sugar ants also. The ants I have recently found in my house are VERY tiny, are they babies or a totally different kind of ant? I'm going to try sugar water and Borax. There isn't a whole lot of them, just enough to be annoying. Thanx for the video.

We call the either sugar or piss ants. I will have to figure out something for outside. We have them in our walkway every year

I’ve tried Terro and Raid ants traps and at first, the ants were taking the Terro bait, but after a while they stopped. Plus, it didn’t kill the colony because there’s still a lot of ants. So, I tried the Raid baits and the ants didn’t even go in it. I’ll try this simpler solution and see if it works. This ant nest is in a tree somewhere, and is a huge problem. Ants everywhere in the house…🤷🏻‍♂️🙄😡

Sugar and Boraxo 4 to 1. Make syrup.

You should try the honey and baking soda mixture. It did wonders for me while having a infestation of exotic ants.

I use cornflour instead of boric

I wonder if these small ants feed on dust mites? Does anyone know?

I'll give it a try. I tried a borax/sugar water solution (seen on another channel) and the ants ignored it.

Maybe the plastic cap off a Pringles tube might work well ?

Thanks for the info! I have a bunch of sugar ants in my room and have no clue where they are coming from or where they are going so I vacuumed and am going to fill a 20 oz gatorade bottle with apple juice and 1 spoon of the boric acid and will get back with how that works with those proportions since I don't have a large jug (college student who doesn't do groceries often).

I use raid ant in roach

I need some help with this. I’m new to seeing these ants in my home and I’m freaking out. So I made the mixture but what do I do next? Yes, I put some in a cap but what about the tall half gallon jug? What do I do with the concoction?

I don't think boric acid is hazardous to pets or Children. It equates to table salt which is why I have used it for many years. The Apple juice is a good idea. I would make a paste of sugar, borax, cornstarch and water. The paste is useful for actually getting into entry points.

Used Nippon last night at about 5 pm. By 6 this morning...NO ants !!! There were thousands of the things last night!

I spray them with vinegar

Could you use this outside in areas where lots of those little ants seem to congregate?

If you put the solution into a thin medicine bottle or travel pill tube and stop up the end with cotton, will the mixture still be lethal to the ants as they drink it from the cotton?

just make sure whatever container you use, you want the ants to be able to get out and take the poison back home

It works....

The problem we have isn't the little black ants, but the big black ants known as carpenter ants.

I bought several of these and they didn't work, still have a ant problem.

I just buy Terro. It's basically the same thing that you are making. I just don't need as much. It's also cheaper for me to buy at Lowe's for $6.99

What do you do if you have protein (I don't know what else to call them) ants?

I have also had success using nematodes that are made for ants.

How long does the Apple cider last before it turns to turns to vinegar???

Can I spray this solution around the exterior of the house? Will it work outside?

You mixed enough up for 10 years, how long does that solution last? Seems to me a cup full is plenty.

How do you safely dispose of the residual.

A little orthoboric acid roach powder placed in their trail will wipe out the whole nest. You don't even have to bait them, just find where they're coming in.

Why not just use Alkalai (chalk)? Ants cannot survive an alkalai enviroment, draw a chalk line around your ant entrance or even your stored food.

I'm always finding them on my hands and shirt. I think my cat tracks them around because she ROLLS IN THEM when she finds some! Then she wanders around and sits on the furniture.

HELP THEY ARE ON MY BED

would love to see an experiment with this, by putting a bowl of the mixture right beside an anthill, to see if it can kill the whole colony or not. Bec i got a big one i want to get rid of.

I sprayed Windex on a line of ants in my room. Don't know if it killed them but when I looked later they had all gone & no bodies were left. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Do you think that pineapple juice would work? It's very sugary

Can you use boracic acid to kill flies..?

Yah boric acid traps work the best. I tried other plastic traps and they ignored those. Boric is the way to go.

You ought to keep them. They're doing a fine job cleaning your carpet. What sort of trap do you use for the wasps? Nevermind...found the link to the video.

I have a different theory. Ants are useful outside, but pests inside the home. I believe killing off the nest leaves a natural vacuum, which will be filled by another nest next year, possibly with a worse type of ant (mine are almost microscopic and tickle, not bite). So I found some natural peppermint spray that repels them. It kills some that it hits directly, but the smell keeps them away for a few days per spray. Thus, the niche is still filled by the ant nest, but they avoid going where I don't want them. It also doesn't harm my parrots, who have free range of my house, esp. the kitchen counter where the ants want to forage.

boric acid is the same thing as borax? or are they different?

Leave a can with a bit of cat food in the bottom, or a bit in a tray or dish. They love it and it kills them. I don't know why.

How do the ants carry the liquid back to their nest?

Will it work if I use borax instead of boric acid?

Just spread some cinnamon powder where those little ants get in to your house or apartment and it will keep them out. Why destroy life if you don't need to.

Does it attract more ants even though it kills them?

How would this work with fire ants?

Iv used just plain cinnamon powder works on ant's

I have cats is it harmful to them?

Will this work on my aunt?