10 Organic Ways To Kill Ants For Good:

[yortbogey]

1. Baking soda is poisonous to ants, sprinkle it around your plants to ensure ants will stay away.

2. Flour & Baby Powder will keep ants from reaching your plants, ants will not cross the powder – so circle your plants with it.

3. You can use coffee grounds, chili powder, cinnamon, peppermint or black pepper. All deter ants and if you pour coffee grounds directly on an anthill, they will eat the coffee grounds and implode.

4. Grits, instant rice & cream of wheat can be sprinkled around plants. The ant will eat a piece of whichever you sprinkle, drink water and the grain expands and kills the ant.

5. Fill a spray bottle with 1 part vinegar and 1 part water and spray on plants. The acid in vinegar will kills ants.

6. Mix together one-third cup of molasses, six tablespoons of sugar, and six tablespoons of active dry yeast into a smooth paste. Use the mixture to coat strips of cardboard. Keep out of reach of pets and small children. You can leave mixture on a saucer outside anthill and they’ll eat it and die!

7. Fold contact paper in half, with the sticky side out and make a circle around base of plant. The ants get stuck on the paper – problem solved.

8. Cut off the bottom of a paper cup and cut a slit up the side of the cup and coat outside with Vaseline and place around base of plant. You can also use packing tape.

9. Mix one cup of borax, two-thirds a cup sugar and one cup water. Dip cotton balls in the solution and place in areas near your anthill Ants will leave the plants alone and ingest the sweet mixture. The borax kills the ants.

10. Diatomaceous earth is a commonly sold organic pesticide that will destroy the insects outer skeletons, causing the pests to die from dehydration

 

[Green Squall]

Anyone know if ants are beneficial in a vegetable garden? Part of the garden is infested. I think heard somewhere they can control pest problems.

 

[armedoldhippy]

Anyone know if ants are beneficial in a vegetable garden? Part of the garden is infested. I think heard somewhere they can control pest problems.

certain flowers need the interaction with ants in order to bloom. i believe peonies are one of them. cannabis, obviously, is not one of them. their use in controlling other pests is not something that i have researched. well, time to Google...

 

[Payaso]

Ants will breed colonies of aphids on pot plants, tomato plants, etc...

Scientists had previously established that certain types of aphids live in colonies where they are used as a food source by a neighbouring colony of ants. The ants have been known to bite the wings off the aphids in order to stop them from getting away and depriving the ants of one of their staple foods: the sugar-rich sticky honeydew which is excreted by aphids when they eat plants. Chemicals produced in the glands of ants can also sabotage the growth of aphid wings. The new study shows, for the first time, that ants' chemical footprints -- which are already known to be used by ants to mark out their territory - also play a key role in manipulating the aphid colony, and keeping it nearby.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071009212548.htm

 

[yortbogey]

^^^^ wicked good and informative post there ... P, thankz for the input

 

[BlueBlazer]

Wow, horny toads didn't even make the top ten?!?

 

[stoned-trout]

the ant here laughed at everything.. I went and got some ortho home defense and killed their asses... they were very determined ants.. they only wanted sweet stuff...they are long dead and when i see a few I wipe their asses out..yeehaw.. just a few I break out the bernzomatic ts4000 and toast their asses..works on flies too as they pass by melting their wings then you can stomp on em..

 

[m314]

I had an ant problem at my last house. I didn't want to use pesticides with the cats and plants there, so I kept a spray bottle of white vinegar on the kitchen counter. It never kept them away for good, but it was so satisfying finding a new trail of those fuckers and spraying the hell out of them. They'd writhe around in pain for a minute or two before they died.

 

[floralheart]

I'm adding tennis shoes and free time

 

[floralheart]

the ant here laughed at everything.. I went and got some ortho home defense and killed their asses... they were very determined ants.. they only wanted sweet stuff...they are long dead and when i see a few I wipe their asses out..yeehaw.. just a few I break out the bernzomatic ts4000 and toast their asses..works on flies too as they pass by melting their wings then you can stomp on em..

Pretty sure I use that too. I just call it ant powder. Kind of looks like some 9-5, dolly parton, brown sugar.

 

[_tessarecting]

D-limonene dissolves exo

 

[shithawk420]

My buddy used basil leaves or something. I can't remember and left them in his cubbords.I don't know if it worked, but I didn't see any ants.I think it worked.he lived in the country.oh I think it was bay leaves

 

[feeblebunny]

Ants will also farm scale on your plants. Not sure how organic this is but simple green and water mixed at a 15:1 ratio does a very good job at getting rid of them (and scale). The ants used to be my friends but they're traitors. Death to the indoor ants!

 

[stoned-trout]

and yet another use for simple green lol,, ..I am out atm...yeehaw

 

[HatchBrew]

i've had them bad this year. Plant and in the house. Will try some of these methods around the garden. House not a problem. Although I found a mouse in the house last night. Whiskey drunk, heard a rattle below the oven. pulled the draw out, and critter scurry...saute pan smash.

Sam-oh-cool

 

[Green Squall]

posted in wrong thread. mod delete this?

 

[stoned-trout]

I heard boric acid mixed with some jelly works too...yeehaw .. never tried it but they say they bring it back to nest and then a bunch die

 

[m314]

I knew a guy in Florida who'd get rid of fire ants in a fun way. He'd pour gasoline all over their mound and light it on fire. The whole mound would go up in flames taking the ants with it. The only problem was it would kill the grass that was there.

I tried pouring gasoline on a few fire ant mounds without lighting it. It worked just as well. The whole colony dies, permanently. That whole patch of land dies too unfortunately. Gasoline is like the nuclear option in ant warfare.

 

[t99]

Did the gas come from a sustainable, free range refinery? Do volatile organic compounds qualify for this thread?

 

[HipsterDoofus]

Title of this thread is misleading and wrong.

These methods are barriers and repellents, not methods to kill ants.