Killing ants...cheaply

[John85]

This was already discussed last year,but I can't find it.The search engine neither.May be somebody remembers?
Magic Maggi...Help!!!

[David Pilling]

Perhaps:

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

borax and icing sugar

[Maggi Young]

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 :

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

[John85]

Thank you both!

[Jonny_SE]

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...

[John85]

Jonny
Have you tried it?
How long does it take?
Much easier to find than borax!!!

[Maggi Young]

How long does it take?

   To kill the ants or Jonny ? 

[Jonny_SE]

It's alive.....      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

[John85]

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!

[Hans J]

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 

Hans

[Rodger Whitlock]

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.