HELP!!!! I have ants.

Well, I can't venture a guess at why you have ants. But I do have a solution. It's worked well for me and some friends of mine. We mix borax and sugar (about equal amounts) and boil it up with just a little water. Put it in shallow containers (I like to use the lids of jars we're recycling) and set them at strategic spots (like where they're entering the house, if you can tell). It's OK if it dries. It usually works within a couple of hours for me, but I've never had so many as you're describing. My friend tells me that this works better for small ants than for large ones. We always have small one, so I don't know. That friend tells me that what works best for large ants is to mix the borax into meat fat (like bacon grease). I wouldn't really want that in my house, though, so I'd try the sugar mixture first, even for large ants.

HTH
Christie

We had ants too. Really bad like you are talking about. I tried all the natural stuff. Didn't work at all. The bug guy came twice. That actually made it worse.

Dh had a friend give him this stuff called Miraculous Insecticide Chalk. I told him no way, who know what is in this stuff! We did a search online and it is illeagal, from China. It is very poisonous, if you eat it (well duh)

Anyways, our ants were coming in the window over the sink (big and little ones) After I went to bed, Dh made a circle around where they where coming in. If they crawl thru it, they died, and then no more come in. It was all that worked. I know it is bad, but I feel that a little circle here and there that is out of reach of my little ones is better than having ants in out bed, food, clothes,etc. I have a crawler as well and she loved the ants, so it was only a matter of time before she sat in the pile. You can find it at $ stores and swap meets.

Good luck! I know it was really stressful for me to have ants all over the place!

G