Anybody else having problems with ants in their house? How do I get rid of 'em-quick?

try grits. I now it sounds funny but it works.

Use one of the ant poisons, but don't place it where you see them. Follow them back to the nest and put it on the path they use to and from their nest. If you put it only where you see them, you only get a portion and you don't get rid of the nest.

I'd say they are going after fats. Some ants do. We have ants that only come into our house at night. Very polite little guys. They usually leave just shortly after daybreak. Even so, we aren't really comfortable with the arrangement. Can you find where they are entering your house. There may be multiple points of entry. We found the entry points and put the food that they were going after outside the house at those points. It was our cat's canned food. They stopped coming in. Why should they, when the food they want is delivered to them? I'm sensitive to a lot of chemicals (get nasty migraine headaches) and so we can't use ant sprays. Our solution is working just fine for us. Oh yeah...they are following the same path because they lay down scent markers as they go to help them find their way around.

I bought some TERRO liquid ant baits from the home improvement store and it ended my infestation. j

I have the same problem and have asked for the same assistance. The best advice given was to attack them from the outside it. So be diligent with setting out the gellied form of antkiller. It is made by raid, and you just put little dime sized drops where you see them coming in your house. In fact, I put those drops all around my house. Then I attacked the indoors with vinegar, as was already suggested. It will take some time and a daily routine, but you should be freed of the little bastards within a week.

Terro ant bait works great. It is sweet so they take it back to the nest and it kills the entire colony. Good luck

Ants are easy: their little tiny feet BURN like crazy when they encounter vinegar!! The cheaper vinegar does the trick. Spread it with a paintbrush on all the door frames, all the windows, inbetween tiles (where the little critters eat their way in - especially in older houses) etc etc etc . . . all with the windows WIDE open! Vinegar smells, but it works like a charm (and stops smelling once its dry) From the sounds of things, you might need to repeat this - 1 week apart . . you'll never look back!

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Try getting those ant stakes from the home depot and set them around your house and around the outside. They will bring the poison down when scavaging for food and all the ants will eat the poison inside and die, killing off the population both above and below ground.