Solution to Ant Problem

[Betsy Ross]

Cinnamon works! I don't want to kill them, just get them out of my kitchen. Sprinkled cinnamon two hours ago: No more ants. I don't want to kill any animals. For my husband, I cook chicken on Friday night but would rather not. I even don't want to swat flies. I don't know when it happened, but my respect for life has gotten so strong. Is this pathological? Does anyone besides vegans feel the same way?

[Taverner]

1. Boric Acid works well too

[zorahopkins]

11. Boric Acid Is A Poison

Boric acid works because it is a poison.

Ants get it on themselves, take it back to the nest, and give it to the queen.

The queen is thus poisoned, and dies, and with her, the colony.

Not a good thing if you merely want to keep ants away WITHOUT killing them.

[Soylent Brice]

18. BWAHAHAAA!!

:rofl:

[Oregone]

2. Go natural, and let spiders eat them

Black Widows, Lynx Spiders and Jumping Spiders all love eating ants. The former are decent predators that will cut down on your nuisance.

[Jennicut]

4. Eek. I am afraid of spiders. I have deep horrifying arachnophobia. I can live with the ants.

I think it all comes from living in an apartment with my then boyfriend (now hubby) right after college. Baby spiders hatched in the bathroom and covered the entire wall and ceiling...thousands of them. I will never let another spider live again..death to spiders! Just kidding, sort of...

[Oregone]

7. Just do it. The proper rodent will eliminate the black widows

And rattlesnakes will eliminate the rodents.

If you get that far, you get to use peacocks to eliminate the rattlesnakes. So a trade from ants to peacocks isn't such a bad deal afterall.

[DavidDvorkin]

9. In the end, do you have to swallow a horse?

[Oregone]

12. haha

[Sal Minella]

17. Groan. Now that song will be going through my head

the rest of the day. The little kids I sang that for loved that song. Also "Bill Groggins' Goat."

[DavidDvorkin]

22. :)

[Jennicut]

15. LOL. I live in CT.We don't too many huge, poisonous bugs or snakes to begin with

Though we rarely get Black Widows. I will have to look hard for a Rattlesnake though, they come out in the summer once in awhile. We have plenty of rats though. Must be the proximity to NYC. ;)

[a la izquierda]

23. Oh holy crow, I have terrible arachnaphobia too.

I was bitten by a spider as a kid and still have the scars to prove it.

And then a few years ago, an evil brown recluse bit my beloved dog of 15 years and we had to put him down when his body would not take any more treatment.
And then last fall, I was staying at a hippie commune in Mexico. I went to lock my cabin door and a spider the size of my fist was plotting my doom, along with a rather large scorpion. I slept exactly one hour that night.

I fuggin' HATE spiders.

[Jennicut]

26. Glad to know I am not the only one

[PretzelWarrior]

20. I'm sure all three are insanely poisonous too?

[Sebastian Doyle]

30. Doesn't work.

I've always had spiders around here. I tolerate them as long as they leave me alone, though I encourage them to stay outside.

The ants are coming indoors now. Obviously the spider defense around the perimeter is not much of a deterrent.

[Big Blue Marble]

3. I feel just as you do.

I use cayenne to deter the little creatures. There are usually other solutions than killing if we are willing to look for them
I must admit fleas have been another matter. I refuse to use poisons, but I do kill them if they invade my space.

[babylonsister]

5. Let me guess-they're not red ants that bite and leave blisters.

I'm less than fond of those hurtful suckers, but I kill skeeters, too, whenever possible. :spank:

[walkaway]

6. This is good news! Cinnamon smell attracts men and repels ants.

Maybe enough cinnamon will get you a brand new vegetarian husband (or get the old one to cook his own dead chicken).

[safeinOhio]

8. Just because lettuce is mute

doesn't mean that it doesn't scream out in pain when your teeth crunch down on it.

[dem629]

10. You don't want to kill them but you deny them food.

(I could put the lame DU "sarcasm" thing here but I won't.)

[Sal Minella]

13. Ants were finding food out there LONG before there were any humans

to snitch food from.

Besides, Oreos and grape jelly probably aren't GOOD for their tiny systems......

[yawnmaster]

21. do you know what cruelties are inflicted on those ants...

when they return to the hive with no food and reeking of cinnamon?
Denying those ants food and deterring them with cinnamon is as good as issuing them a death warrant.

[Betsy Ross]

29. Thanks.

That just makes it so much easier. NOT! Some folks to think about the impact on the planet and its creatures of our actions. So it is pathological.

[Sal Minella]

32. Ye Gods, yawnmaster -- you are just too sensitive to live!

Perhaps you should inhale an overdose of cinnamon and put an end to your own suffering?

[Betsy Ross]

14. I have a lovely compost pile the critters enjoy.

We lock up the cat door to keep the raccoons out of the house at night, but they get to eat the fruit growing in the yard.

[yawnmaster]

16. yes. eom

[Life Long Dem]

19. Pour some hot fudge over them.

They don't taste that bad. Better than the cat food I've been putting on the table.

[greguganus]

24. How would you get rid of roaches and termites if you had them? n/t

[luvspeas]

25. I don't kill them - I let them kill each other!...

We have fire ants. I take a shovel full of ants from one anthill and put it in the another. They will fight each other to the death. Works every time.

[SoCalDem]

27. Sounds like a republican solution..rile 'em all up and then let 'em go at each other

It has a CIA-brilliance to it:)

[aikoaiko]

28. I want to live with a cinnamon girl, I could be happy the rest of my life.....

.... with a cinnamon girl.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT5Vs4Kngvo&feature=related

[annabanana]

31. Calvin had it all figured out years ago: