ants

[trikertyke]

how to get rid of ants and colony

[Clanad]

Although the commercial sprays and dusts are effective. they contain Primitherin (at least here in the U.S.), which can be fatal to pets. If you'd like, you can try this, that I've found to be fairly effective... make a bait out of baking soda, powdered sugar and dry active yeast or powdered vitamin C ( 45% baking soda, 45% powdered sugar, 10% of either yeast or Vitamin C) and thoroughly saturate the top of the ant colony. This will kill most ants. Another home remedy that works is to spray the colony with white vinegar or dust with talcum powder that one uses on babies...
Best of luck!

[Disco Fever]

My mum used to use a kettle of boiling water and pour it down all the holes....

[shylock73]

Put some Nippon in their `runs` and they will gather round it to feed and then take it back to their nest and feed the young and Queen. Bye Bye ants.

[gt43]

Where are the ants? If you are just having a problem with a few black ants coming indoors, say, into your kitchen, first make sure you've cleared up any food debris (especially spilled soft drinks or dropped sugar) and then ... they swear by this in Australia, run a little talc across their path where they come in (if you watch, you'll see they all follow the same line). This doesn't kill them but they'll avoid the talc as they cannot walk through it and it gums their legs up.

If it's anthills in the garden that's the problem (usually red ants) then as far as I know, the only way is to keep the area well-watered. They build their anthills up to avoid the dampness of the soil, but will go elsewhere if it's always wet.