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1. …along thier trails. Make or buy bait stations where only the ants get in and out, lay them down covered from other animals or children. Keep replenishing the borax/boric acid-poisoned bait as long as the ants are active; it may take well severeal wekks, even over a month before you eradicte the nests, but if you keep feeding the ants borate-laced baits for several weeks,you should be able to eradicte them.

2. 1. try to locate the nests of the red ants
   2. try and find out a food the red ants would eat and take into their nest readily, but which the bees won’t touch. some red ant species feed frenticaly on dried eggs, canned cat food or fish meat for example. These are foods that bees won’t touch as you probably know.
   3. after findig a food the ants eat and which the bees left alone, poison it with 1-3% borax or boric acid. Lay it covered in bait stations in the proximity of the ant nests,

3. add some milk too and some biscuits

4. is this good for carpenter ants,their killing my trees………

5. Not sure something i am doing wrong, but i have not seem anybody complain yet about the stains the spray makes. I have sprayed around my pavers, stone edging around the pool and its left spots everywhere . Now i have to go around and see if it will wash off.

6. We are beekeepers & have trouble with red ants getting into the hives, I would not use the borax mix for fear of the bees eating it & dieing… Do you have another natural way to kill ants that won’t harm our bees?

7. It does not cut them up inside. It creates a gas within the ants which cause them to explode and thereby, die.

8. Update: We find that the Peanut Butter mixture dries up rather fast so we’ll be adding new baits in the same areas tonight. They still seems to be enjoying the poison! If only they knew…..

9. Hi BlackkOrchyd: I’ve also got the ones that go nuts over protein/oil/grease (ie. Peanut Butter), but they also like Ginger Ale and Apple juice. I found this video super helpful although I’m not using the spray method, we liked the peanut butter mix in water bottle caps better. We can’t seem to get Borax in Canada (or in Montreal where I am currently at least), but the pharmacies have Boric Acid which apparently works the same way and effectively kills the ants.

10. I think he said in the video at one point that the mixture will stay good for many months, so yes you can store it for a little while and reuse the same mixture. Can’t say for your second question, sorry!

11. Hi. Hubby & I are currently battling these very ants in our apartment. Tonight we set out a Boric Acid / Peanut Butter mix (1 tbsp. Peanut Butter, 1 tsp. Boric Acid). I am desperately hoping this works. They are coming from in between our wall cracks on the floor. We do not know if our neighbors have them, but I’m assuming so. None are dying yet because we just put them out, but so far they are ravishing it. We put the mix in water bottle caps. Wish us luck. :-S

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13. Thats reallly many ants…. o_o

14. Wrong it really kills them because it cut them up in side then they die

15. Also i have a pool, a salt one and every time i bring out the hose or equipment thats been in the water they come out in their droves, so wondering if i can somehow incorporate the salt or would i be best letting them attack the equipment and then go crazy in spraying them.

16. Two questions please! firstly , do you need to use the mixture straight away or can it be stored for a liitle while. Secondly, What about those big ants, i think they call them 1” ants, will this stuff work on them. thanks

17. He didn’t mention using bacon grease or peanut butter mixed with borax. It depends on the type of ants you’ve got, ones that like sweets or ones that like grease and/or protein (I’ve got the latter going on). I’m currently trying bacon grease mixed with borax smeared on news paper pieces in outside areas. Figure I can throw it away when I don’t want it around anymore.  Also, spraying inside areas with ACV (trails, entry points) or using; mint oil, cinnamon (sticks & powdered) works for inside

18. Very helpful - thank you!

19. This guy is a bit creepy but his videos are great!

20. :)

21. Will this work with termites?

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23. his song makes him sound like hes gay

24. Dude your plant are dead now to nice Job