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Title: Killing ants...cheaply
Post by: John85 on May 27, 2013, 02:42:03 PM: This was already discussed last year,but I can't find it.The search engine neither.May be somebody remembers?
Magic Maggi...Help!!!
Title: Re: Killing ants...cheaply
Post by: David Pilling on May 27, 2013, 03:15:13 PM: Perhaps:

http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=7900.0 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=7900.0)

borax and icing sugar
Title: Re: Killing ants...cheaply
Post by: Maggi Young on May 27, 2013, 04:14:34 PM: There was talk of having problems with ants around this time last year, John, in a paeony thread, but no mention of what to use to get rid of them.
The nearest I can find, apart from the link David gives above, is this, where Stephen Vella wrote :
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With a lot of toxic chemicals going off the shelf I have been using more and more often organic sprays like the chillie and garlic sprays bought at most garden centres. It really works. I had drench some pots that had root aphids. I even tried it on some ants and it works!

Also neem oils are good as a contact insecticide Ive used it on lace bugs and great for killing mites.
from this thread.... http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=7754.msg216327#msg216327 (http://www.srgc.net/forum/index.php?topic=7754.msg216327#msg216327)
Title: Re: Killing ants...cheaply
Post by: John85 on May 27, 2013, 07:36:24 PM: Thank you both!
Title: Re: Killing ants...cheaply
Post by: Jonny_SE on May 28, 2013, 06:49:43 PM: Another easy way to do it.....use some diet (light) lemonade with aspartam...the Ants dies.....and thats why i never drink anything with aspartam....even that i'm not an Ant Though... :P
Title: Re: Killing ants...cheaply
Post by: John85 on May 28, 2013, 08:18:51 PM: Jonny
Have you tried it?
How long does it take?
Much easier to find than borax!!!
Title: Re: Killing ants...cheaply
Post by: Maggi Young on May 28, 2013, 08:23:02 PM: Quote from: John85 on May 28, 2013, 08:18:51 PM

How long does it take?

To kill the ants or Jonny ? ??? ::) ;) :-X
Title: Re: Killing ants...cheaply
Post by: Jonny_SE on May 28, 2013, 11:08:04 PM: It's alive..... ;D And yes John i tried it..you will see a huge diff. in a week or two ...Don't know if you can get a lemonade named "Fun light" ?...that's one we got here and works great with ants...this is a common way to kill them here in Scandinavia...so it's not just me who tried it...Best of luck and give us a feedback when you tried it...//Jonny
Title: Re: Killing ants...cheaply
Post by: John85 on June 15, 2013, 12:32:10 PM: Jonny
It seems that ants are fussy drinkers!!!
I tried with the "light" quality of a well known american brand containing aspartam.They didn't like it!
Title: Re: Killing ants...cheaply
Post by: Hans J on June 15, 2013, 03:16:44 PM: My old method is:

fill a saucer with Coca Cola ( or any other sweet Limonade ) and add some Drops of a insecticid ( p.e. as active Dimethoat ) ....place this saucer where the ants run 8)

Hans
Title: Re: Killing ants...cheaply
Post by: Rodger Whitlock on June 17, 2013, 04:57:02 AM: Sugar syrup with a little borax dissolved in it. Wandering workers imbibe the stuff, take it back into the nest, and feed it to their stay-at-home brethren, including, aha! the queen. It doesn't take long to destroy a nest.

I can't offer advice about buying borax, however. In Canada and the US, it's sold as a laundry adjuvant, quite cheaply.