Just put a little pile of the paste on any ant trail. But it has dozens of other uses too. Then, soak a few cotton balls in the borax-sugar-water mixture. Until. What did I do wrong? See the many other “experiments” and recipes on the web. I use 4 oz. I discovered by sheer frustration that a vacuum to vacuum up those horrible things worked GREAT and sucked them all in. With the ingredients in hand, I performed the following steps: This ration is 6:1 (sugar/Borax). Sometimes it takes a few days for them all to disappear. there is a simple trap that we use for hive beetles that can be used for ants without harming any bees or other larger insects that might be susceptible to the borax poison. 8 oz. It is a salt of boric acid. A foam spray can or two gets the job done with larger holes pre filled with steel wool or mostly sealed with small cut to shape pieces of board stuck on the wall with contact cement. The borax is in the form of boric acid. I can’t figure out why they won’t die though. If so, how long did it take? Obviously, the ants are not as attracted to it if there is too much borax. Every summer for the last 4 or 5 years, our condo bldg. Borax and boric acid are not the same compound; borax is a salt of boric acid. eat them) and leave the greasy syrup. It may be that you will need professional treatment to get rid of them. Thanks for sharing it. Dry baits are taken back to the nest whereas liquid are eaten at the bait site. This is a tried and true recipe that I have used for years to control Argentine ants and other sugar feeding ants: 2 cups of sugar The basic one can be found in many stores for around nine bucks. I had taken precautions to prevent such a thing but what are chances darn cat would eat Ant ??! You don’t need a lot and it s easy to clean up if company is coming. Nothing…..UNTIL night & there they were big, little & in between. I used a cinnamon trail to confine the ants to the area where the cat food was so they didn’t go looking for my pantry. Then to be extra careful, determined person that I am, I also took some of the children’s sidewalk chalk, ground that up fine, added peppermint essential oil and used it to deter them from trying to enter the house by placing a thick line of it blocking their point of entry. The kill effectiveness is also complicated by how many other food sources the colony has access to. I am going to try your mixture with oil. Place lunch meat in a microwave safe dish The MAGIC ingredient if FAT. For over a century people have been using boric acid or borax to kill and control ants. Mix up a batch (mash it all up into a pulp) and place it on small pieces of grease-proof paper or al-foil, or in soft drink lids etc. This method of ant control takes a few days to work. I also had no idea if they found the bait, since I placed it before bed. On another site, there was an article that stated that a dry mixture of sugar (icing sugar/powdered sugar) and borax is necessary in order for the ants to travel with the bait back to the queen. Borax, a ratio of 16 to 1 which is about the same as the 5.4% borax that Terro uses in their baits. That would be a good test to add to this article the next time I see ants here! 381.37 g/mol, Table sugar/Molar mass 1.0 Carol. I’m going to try mixtures of fats, proteins, and sugars. Worker ants will quickly find the sugar mix and carry it back to the rest of the colony. Can’t wait til they are gone! Some say to use just apple cider vinegar, some suggest honey, and some swear by sugar. First you make the ant poison mixture… Thoroughly mix 1 part borax with 3 parts sugar Slowly stir in water until mixture resembles the texture of … For me this out performed the Terra Baits at 1/100 the cost (and I have a laundry booster for the winter)! Why are the ants in your home? Soon after I put out the cotton balls, they came! They can literally move in thousands strong so do check and repair. Now, however, the odorous ants won’t touch it. We have the tiny ones here around my house. HI Jason. Thanks for adding the ration Chuck. This year I will treat whole yard with exterminator too. Apparently, borax will get stuck to the legs of the roaches, they will try to clean it off and then will die. I am at a loss for what else to do. I don’t treat the inside as I don’t want to attract them. It made a gel which reminded me of my Australian concoction and I thought Eureka! I just place little piles around the room and right now I have a couple piles that are almost half black from ants that have died on the hill. now assembly. Once some ants become attracted to the mixture, others arrive, intensifying the effectiveness of the ant killer. I pour it into a dollar store ketchup container. Totally. I guess the Borax does the best job! 8. The formula was made by combining 1/2 cup of honey, 1/4 cup of Borax and 2 tbsp of boiling water – another strong mixture. So I’m worried about electrical issues now. Yes, I have read that it does depend on the type of ant, which you should use. (I usually use a paper bowl and a disposable spoon) I will then use the caps from water bottles, soda, or Gatorade. I fought these ants for 2 years before someone gave me this recipe for borax and icing sugar. Another thing I noticed that the bated traps (either in shallow plastic drinking water lids or placed directly on a surface) would become so sticky after several hours and that several ant would become stuck as they were feasting away. Simply mix all the ingredients together until they’re blended, and place the bait in the trap for the ants to consume. For my initial test, I used about 1/6 of a slice of turkey, or about 5.3 grams (1 slice is 32g), and 1/8tsp of Borax, or about 0.48 grams (1 TBS of Borax is about 11.5g), this (about 8.3 percent borax by weight). None of them however have the MAGIC ingredient for really killing ants. Works great. Borax is a great all around household product used for cleaning. Wish I had read this before calling the big guns out. I spray it along all the window ledges, on the flashing as internally, I am screaming with joy at my mass murder. Ants like moist wood and messy house keepers . They weren’t dead – just feeding for a long time. Terro was the one most mentioned as effective so I tried it. Hi Val. Yesterday I notice a few ants on my stairs when I was arriving home and checked in the same spot as last year and they are BAAAACCCKK! I think the colony (or colonies) are inside a wall somewhere. Spreading a handful of borax on the garage floor, just inside the overhead door, and some more around the perimeter of the garage, worked wonders. I use the sugar method with fantastic results. #1- I purchased a gallon jug of Terro brand ant killer online from a professional exterminator supply company for $49.00, and free shipping last year. it doesn’t take long and has the same effect as the borax. I love this idea. Ants colonize in winter. they were mentioned in other comments but I have not tried this method so I don’t know what went wrong for you. Optimally, you want them only eating from you alone. Never really noticed a problem outside, but wanted to cover all bases. Their disparate uses also make it clear that they are two separate chemicals. where i live i have the big black carpenter ants hard to kill terro wouldn’t kill them . I’ll definitely let you know! Carol. But every brand that I have tried here in the US gave me so-so results at best. I did find single loners crawling around here and there in different areas of the kitchen. The. I had little black ants in my kitchen–in the sugar, in the honey pot, everywhere! I make 2/3 corn syrpe to 1/3rd borax and water to make a liquid . Homemade Ant Killer With Boric Acid. 8 teaspoons of boric acid powder (or borax). Thanks Alfred. haphazardly try equal parts. I also tried orange peels because they are smilers so the citrus would annoy them but that did not work. Terro liquid ant bait is about 5.4% sodium borate (boric acid) along with liquid sucrose. Isopropyl alcohol is my weapon of choice for immediate termination of ants and also fruit flies (sprayed of course with a super-fine shower, not a straight line spray). For this, you’ll need borax, honey or maple syrup in equal amounts. Also,I have reason to believe they have made one or more nests in the voids spaces in my house walls. The ants are coming in through two different spots. I refreshed the bait each morning. The mixture is borax and sugar, and so naturally, ants are attracted to the sugar. They have thinned out a lot but not all gone yet. For instance, you can place a small portion of your mixture in doors and windows or any other place that you thing the ants will access the mixture easily. You may hear Borax called sodium tetraborate as well. Before you do that, save yourself some time and trouble, and the chemicals, by reading my experiences with these homemade Borax Ant Killers. Carol. Soak cotton balls in the mixture keep it in a small plastic lid; Place it places where ants visit. However, one downside to using DE is that it will not work to kill the entire ant colony, as it is not designed as a bait for ants to bring back to the queen. 2 tablespoons Borax; Fruit jam; tb1234. This was about 4 months ago and they have never returned. Carol. I use vinegar and water 50/50 to treat them immediately and then follow up with baits. Place the ant bait outside of home next to suspected ant entryways and ant hills. Click here for instructions on how to enable JavaScript in your browser. Company did state they are coming through some entry left unsealed. – Possums up a massive tree freaking out on each other one night), to older long term residents being displaced due to lack of space, a good market to sell, the rising taxes that new residents have abatements from and so forth. The honey test formed a skin on the surface, and the peanut butter got somewhat hard. (6) Stir well. Carol, Thanks Lou. He used quite a bit of boric acid in his mixture too. I had an infestation around my butter dish. In the early morning, I dropped saturated cotton balls all around my yard (they reminded me of the ice cream drips my kids left behind that attracted ants all summer). They like the butyric acid, and other organic acids in the cheese. Heck, I’ve made it pretty clear I am not super thrilled about the neighbourhood being invaded! From what I have read here I think my homemade solution and application will work. But wait! Mixed confectionary sugar and borax, put it out dry, and still a few days afterward, they would not touch it so we pulled it. Researching all the remedies showed me one thing clearly. place stones in reservoir arranged so the lid of the jar will rest somewhat evenly on them Works. I have used this method a couple of times now and it works really well. The next morning when he got up, he called us to his room. The first spot, they went right for the peanut butter. I live in Salt Lake City. Carol, Hi again, Funny how the ad to the side of this post is for the SimpliSafe thingie “Stop Intruders” it’s so appropriate for this site, isn’t it? This is the recipe that finally worked after more than two months of systematically testing all the various baits suggested here and being particular about the percentage quantities: 1 T Boysenberry Jam + 1/16 t boric acid powder. And of course, I have tried the ant killer gel Terro that you can buy at Home Improvement stores which is pricey to say the least. Sugar or protein based? They seem to like it. Some just work better, and for longer than others. They really don’t like it at all! One recipe you can try calls for a half cup of sugar, 1.5 tablespoons of borax, and 1.5 cups of warm water. So today tried mixing borax in a little bit of water then pb and a tsp of vegetable oil .. Others eat sugar. This was wonderful! In my case, I would never make it from our temporary second floor kitchen (yes, endless projects chez moi) and down the stairs without slopping it out on one of the welcomed beasties, tripping and adding me into that equation, or, having made it without disaster; the water being too cool, as me old grumpy gal moves are not as swift as back when. Trouble? The result has been, in terms of all sorts of wild life, from ants, Racoons and Possums being seen far more frequently (I saw four – yes 4! Did they show up out of the blue and won't go away? I threw half a massive container of bay leaves on the window sill today, on finding this years party crashers entering via and that didn’t faze them one bit. Over a period of several days, the poisoned food eventually is spread to every member of a colony. Would you like to be easily reminded of this post for Borax ant killers later? We are close to destroying our own “space capsule” earth for our own “comfort” and sustenance. Let it cool for a bit (you can refrigerate the leftovers for the next day or two if needed). After consuming the baking soda, the ants will die. Best ‘container ‘ for any of the ant bait mixtures is an aluminium foil tart baking cup of the sort found on supermarket mince pies. (7) Put the can where the ants pass by. Your article was helpful. I don’t use the yard much, small – 40 x 60 feet- so a high percentage of ants per grass- my son complained about ants cutting the grass, I had no idea I sent him into an infestation of the aggressive biters and marked the mounds with sticks and mowed around piles very carefully in very tall boots. We use Terro indoors and our own mixture outdoors. They can easily climb up and down the outer slope to reach the treat in the depression, and out again. I’m not quite sure, but when I first tried it, I plopped the mix on a plate and it didn’t seem as effective. Ant. The second test gave me a much longer time without ants reappearing. I am going to mix up more of the borax/sugar mixture at a lower ratio, but add water to it since they don’t seem to want anything that is dry. I put out a few fresh baits to make sure and didn’t see a single ant. Carol, Can u mix them and use a spray bottle to spray the areas, HI David. We mix boric acid, one part, and powdered sugar, three parts, or borax, two parts, and powdered sugar, one part The ant problem ultimately ends when the queen dies. Tried terro on its own but there was no interest. In testing the effectiveness in killing ants, I tested store bought Terro against Borax mixed with natural products as well as against Apple Cider Vinegar. Borax can also be used to preserve flowers when combined with corn meal with great results. Whichever method you use, make sure that you put the bait directly in their path. I also read that bacon fat/grease mixed with borax worked. For the solid ant bait, mix the borax or boric acid in with powdered sugar (again I used 3/4 C sugar and 1/4 C of borax or boric acid). Borax ant killer has been popular to get rid of ants. HI Bob. Terro and other sugary baits work great against the sugar loving ants. After they are gone it’s best to flood the area with water to collapse their tunnels so you don’t invite new ants to move in. Because of the difference in cost, my choice for the future will be the Sugar water and Borax. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoCtrhK7WlE Directions on trap said to allow 10-14 days to kill out colony. I don’t think there’s really any need to get any more complicated than that, but who knows, I suppose maybe some people have picky ants or something , I’m trying the peanut butter borax mix which worked good but was developing the hard crust .. tried adding a little shortening to it to see if it keeps it from crusting over and maybe attracts even more .. fingers crossed .. I have tried the sugar recipe doesn’t seem to work in Perth Western Australia, however the peanut paste/butter mix works very well, they love it. Hi Caite.Good point. She goes crazy spraying and kills them out. This is why terro works better. (i.e. The distilled white vinegar works but only temporarily. (several hours of testing – at least 5 or more). 4. 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