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How can I get rid of sugar ants?

What causes "sugar ants" and how can you get rid of them?

  • I have those really small ants in my kitchen, we call them "sugar ants". If a crumb gets let on the counter, they are all over it. They don't bite that I know of. Please give me ideas to get rid of them. Thanx

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    Ants are just attracted to sweets. For ants on the counter top, wipe down the counter top with white undiluted vinegar. To prevent ants from coming into the house, or getting into cupboards, sprinkle dried mint or red pepper where they are entering the house and in the cupboards. If you know where the anthills are, make a mixture of 50 percent borax (sold in laundry aisle of supermarkets) and 50 percent confectioner's sugar and place near anthill. The ants are attracted to the sugar and carry the fatal borax/sugar combination back to the nest to feed the queen and other ants. Soon all ants will be dead. Do not put this mixture where children and pets can ingest it. To get rid of anthills, pour 3 gallons of boiling water down them. This is best when done when the ants are active and at the surface. Do not do it near flowers or they will die.

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well they are actually pavement ants, and they nests inside your walls during winter months they go dormant, when it gets warm they start coming out, you probably need a professional treatment due to the nests that are in walls, the exterminator will inject something in wall that will kill the nests/if u dont get a proffsnl treatment u will continue to have problem every summer//i work for an exterminating co.

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