How to get rid of tiny little ants those pesky tiny little ants that crawl on your counter get into your cereal rove in your pantry and swim in your coffee mug yet you never see where they come from or where they go or how they got into your home.
How to get rid of tiny red ants in my kitchen.
In this post i will show you how to get rid of tiny little ants called ghost ants.
Clean your kitchen thoroughly.
Combine vinegar and water in a spray bottle and use the solution to clean sinks and countertops.
Mix together 1 part borax with 3 parts of powdered sugar.
The ants will be attracted by the scent of the sugar and will take the borax mixture back to the colony.
No food no reason to continue to come.
Repel the ants with soapy water.
Then spray the mixture on ants whenever you see them in your kitchen.
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Shake the bottle to let the soap and water mix together.
You can then soak some cotton balls in the bait solution and place it near the trail of ants.
A mix of soap and water sprayed on ants will kill them on the spot.
Fill a plastic spray bottle with 1 capful of liquid hand soap and water.
Vinegar is an excellent cleanser as well as an ant repellent.
Most likely what attracted them is a food source of some kind.
Fill small containers with this mixture bottle caps spoons etc and place these containers around areas where ants may be entering your house.
Make sure you remove any food refuse daily or even multiple times a day and thoroughly clean your sink.
Spray the ants and get rid of them.
If you want to kill the queen and keep more ants from entering your home pour boiling water or a puree of citrus peels down a mound entrance to kill ants.
You can make this ant bait by mixing half a cup of sugar with about 1 5 tablespoon of borax and warm water.
Be sure to pay extra attention to the trail where the ants have been marching.
However this won t target the colony.
Start by cleaning up and removing all potential food sources.