Windex kills ants but leaves my walls blue (better idea?)

Susan · 2008-07-16T16:10:05+00:00

I have an ant infestation and I spray windex to kill the swarms of tinyants but it takes so much to kill ants that the carpets, walls, and groutturns blue from the dye in the commercial window cleaner.Do you know if I just buy ammonia and mix it at the correct percentage thatit will still kill ants without staining my carpets blue? What percentage of ammonia would you use?Do you know HOW ammonia kills the ants?Is there a better way to kill an ant infestation?

Jul 16, 2008 41 Replies

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RobertMacy 11 years ago

yes, ALWAYS remove scent trails of EVERY creepy crawly.

We had two 2 liter bottles of soda explode inside a base cabinet in our entertainment room. What a mess! Didn't discover until the next day, ran down inside through cracks disappeared into ?? But the ants found it! The cabinet isalong an exterior wall, duh!

Used the fastest thing I had around, Raid's new Bug Barrier. Sprayed around, down into the same leaking cracks etc. Never saw anoth ant for over year now. I think that stuff kills the next even.

It is a commercial toxic, "spit, spit, curse be gone!" but it DOES work and work well.

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John 11 years ago

Ever think about looking into ant traps? Terro makes several varieties for both inside and outside of the home. They do the job with no muss or fuss. The stuff is taken back to the nest and kills the nest, no harsh chemicals to poison your pets or rug rats.

If you Google you can make your own concoction but the Terro ones are cheap enough, and as I said, they work.

John

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