The best way to get rid of ants is using borax or boric acid bait that they carry back to the colony. Ants love kitchens because of food crumbs, grease and water—so keeping things clean is the first ...

Q: With the recent rains and cold weather my house has been invaded by ants. I heard that you can use boric acid to kill ants in the house, and that it’s nontoxic. How do I use it? A: All pesticides ...

Instead of spraying the building foundation and the landscape with pesticide, the IPM strategy is to prevent ant nesting around the foundation and to use baits to target the colony. It helps to reduce ...

Q: Is there a safe remedy to get ants out of the kitchen? They are mostly around the sink area. The house is very clean, and we have put out ant traps because we didn't want to spray any toxins in the ...

I guess that we are back to typical April weather. I have found over the years that the weather isn’t consistently warm until closer to the end of April and sometimes into May. The ants are beginning ...

That’s the advice a South Carolina reader passed along recently in an e-mail. He had ant hills on his paving-stone patio, but then his son sprinkled grits, uncooked and straight from the box, around ...

Sarah in Burke writes: “After all the rainy weather this winter, I have ants everywhere: the dining room, kitchen, even a second-story bedroom. They just laugh at commercial bait traps. What can I do ...

Whoever wrote “The ants go marching one by one” was gravely underestimating their numbers. Thousands by thousands is more like it by the time you discover them invading your space. And although summer ...