Indoor Ants - Tips & Tricks For Finding The Nest
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- A couple tricks for finding indoor ant nests. And verifying you've got it (or them).
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Thanks. I have them in my kitchen and was about to use my shotgun.
FuzzFace I laughed wayyy to hard at this comment
lol. I got the lil buggers with ant killer in the end. Put out some sugar and bicarb soda and the next morning my entire hallway carpet was TEAMING with them. They were coming through a crack in the front door, through the hallway and into the kitchen to take the bicard soda and sugar back to the nest. Proper busy little buggers they were. =)
XDDDDDDD BRO YOUR COMMENT WAS HILARIOUS
just fill the shells with salt. Make a bug-assault ultimate.
@@westcoastwarriorsarchive7929 What do you mean by shells. I have been crushing them with the back of a spoon. Not many left now but a few baby ones. Was kind of fun lmho.
I've never seen those small ants walk that fast. You must have marathon runners for ants.
Because they've already established a nest in the wall void, I have found the faster they move, the closer the nest is. He has fragmented the colony to several colonies with off the shelf "pesticides". Always call a professional.
Good job on the clear instructions and for showing results
You sound like the voice that says: one small step for man,a large leap for humanity
You mean Neil Armstrong? No, but I wish I had been. He was a great man.
Lol Yes the camera's audio makes the voice more vintage!! I enjoyed this informational video. Thank you so much!
How do you mess up one of the all-time greatest quotes?
Mankind
haha)
I get rid of these same type of ants in this video when I get them (not ever year, but about every 3-4 years) in my basement. I mix a sugar/borax/water solution and it does the trick. Follow their trail. Once you get to a point where they seem to no longer follow a linear trail, that's where you put the borax poison. Or if the trail ends at soe food they found, that's where you put the borax poison.
The recipe is 2 parts sugar to 1 part borax. Mix well dry, then add water little by little, mixing in between water additions, until it's watery, not syrupy. Reason to add the water little by little is because you don't want to dilute it too much but you do want it watery. Just enough water to become liquid instead of a paste or syrup (the paste and syryp gets hard after 12 hours or so).
The 2 parts sugar to 1 part borax ratio is important because if you put too much borax in it the ant will die before it gets back to the nest. The ants that go out for food go back to the nest, regurgitate some food for the other ants who do not leave the nest. So you want these feeder ants to live long enough to get back to the nest to feed the borax poison to the other rants.
You'll see a lot of recipes online, but I find the 2 parts sugar to 1 part borax works well, at least for these types of small brown ants. Other types of ants may need a different recipe and some types of ants do not eat sugar so you may need to substitute sugar for whatever other food they are looking for.
Of course, the Andro (and other brands) liquid poison baits you buy at the store also work well, but I always have borax on hand so I have no need to buy those anymore, but they do work. You have to kill the colony otherwise eventually the ants that do not leave the nest will become feeder ants and leave the nest to find food for the others, then you are back to square one. Must destroy the whole colony!
I'm taking care of my friends pets,my friend and her family are on a trip, but there house is really messy so I cleaned it and I found out they have a big ant problem. at least this video helped me get rid of a lot of them, so maybe for people that hate ants is to keep your house clean too so they won't try and come back again :) :P
Aree totally, only problem i get is in the fall each year they come back, different colony?, cuz i found the nest last year and this year(different one) and my house is splotless, Im a clean freak, so for now I'll be fine til next fall, I am prepared to use his method incase I missed a new colony, but I totally agree with you on , keep your/anyone's house clean and it certainly does repel them!!!👍👍👍
Thanks for the advice. I got an ant costume at Party City and tried asking the ants where there nest was. They didn't respond.
That's because ants don't identity each other with sight like an aunt, ants use smell instead.
tsbrownie just letting you know it was probably a joke.
@@H4rM0n1cpeezy My comment was a joke for sure! ;)
Lol.
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When ants come into your house
Ants: GIV EM HELL BOIS
I've been using a similar method but I use a cup with a little amount oj they go into the cup and are to sticky to get out I've caught lots of ants like this. how you figure out where they are coming from is pretty genius.
clever with the OJ but I don't even buy IOJ for me, hate to waste it on those buggers! LOL
Now I know why I come home to loads of ants in my living room. I had a pack of sugar cubes sitting on top of table. The pack was covered but it was open so not sealed. The ants were all round underneath the table. I found ants nest (I hope) using your method and sealed up a space in the corner of my inside door. I am scared to put sugar down to see if it had worked incase I entice them out again. But suppose be best to do it.
yea there in my room and I traced it back to a closet I can't get in since it's a broom closet, so I sprayed a round the top and bottom, is that okay?
Certainly worth a try. I've had them in my house climb down 3 stores to get to the kitchen. Traced them all the way back up there to a crack. I did get them, so yes, good chance.
👍Now this is what I call a helpful video! Thank you sir! 😁
Thank You!
tsbrownie this good video now I can kill these ants in my room
Awesome. Thanks great video and your instructions were really goof
Ant just crawled in my phone.
Wow, they are literally all over my new apartment. I’m seeing them coming outta tiny holes in the baseboard of different corners. I sealed as much as I could. The group on your counter, I see on the kitchen floor like you said every couple hours. I’ve put poison and many things down and they continue to come.
Once I found the hole they were coming in, before I plugged it, I would have made a little platform out of cardboard and taped it near the hole and then started putting out some Terro and kept it refreshed till they quit coming. That way you could be certain you nailed the queen.
Quick and to the point, I love it..thanks
Man anytime I get ants or roaches the videos always show these tiny ants or roaches. Down in the South the ants are as big as the digit in your thumb, and the roaches twice that.
Go to Lowe's , buy a tube of Bayer Max Force Ant Gel . Put it out where you simply see the ants . They will eat it and carry it back to the colony . The colony will be destroyed . Problem solved . Watch a video about Bayer Ant Gel . It works great . You can buy it at Lowe's .
Thank you. Very good informative video that actually elaborated on the technique to follow the ant trail.
I had ants for two summers. Never active in winter but every spring theyd pop up. It was hard to see them against my wood floor. They were never in the kitchen, only ever in my living room. Drove me bonkers. My mother and I were getting rid of a old coffee table and when we took the top off to move it, in the very center was what looked like a giant ball of them. Baseball sized. We were both floored. I had no idea they would just live in a pile with no burrow or solid hiding spot. It was nasty lol. I vaccumed them up in one go and haven't had a problem since.
Interesting. I guess they thought it was a climate controlled tree trunk!
@@tsbrownie I never saw this reply till now! That could very well be it lol! It was a wooden coffee table with a mirror top. I'm so used to seeing ants live in ground burrows that I completely forgot that they also like to live in trees.
@@thunderxzyt I actually feel bad for vacuuming them all up, but I was worried since we took the top off the table that they would start to dispurse, quicker than I would ever be able to grab the queen or move them outside. Someone also told me if I just moved them, they'd follow the scent trail and come back inside. So, I just panicked.
@@cadavher its ok they are pretty invasive ants so its ok idk were you come from they come from the amazon areas and vacuuming was the safest because it does not damage them
thank you for the blowing on them tip - I use that now.
My mother and I have been dealing with these persistent little fellas ever since we relocated to her house four years ago. In the beginning, we've been sticking to the Terro ant gel baits/stakes as well as constant vinegar/soap spraying on their trails to curb them and so far it's worked. But every few months if the weather gets too hot and/or too dry, they just keep coming back from another access point (lol). Of course, we probably wouldn't be having this severe a problem if my mother was more diligent in moving stuff around the home to make it easier to patch up those spots where they keep coming in (and yeah, DON'T EVER LEAVE UNWASHED DISHES IN THE SINK!!!). Truth of the matter is, ants are crucial to the world's ecosystem so it's better to just "discourage" them from entering your home rather than trying to exterminate them outright. If anything, they're among the most efficient creatures I've ever come across. They even recycle their own dead, too!
;-)
Actually they don’t eat the dead ones, they take them away for let’s say any cemetery far away from the nest. The reason is to protect the queen and if the dead ant has some diseases to prevent it from spreading.
Do I just put the sugar clump our or do I have to get it a lil wet in the video u shared it looks glossy
Either way. Ants really love sugar. I usually use sugar water, but it does not video well.
Thanks i just had a breakdown of screaming and stepping on ants they just didint stop coming but they come from under my bed i cannot see under there help me .
THE LEMON PLEDGE SECRET placed in a light coating inside along ant pathways the ants travel has stopped ants altogether. When I learned that ants use scent travel paths, on a whim I tried the Lemon Pledge and it works. I also put it under the stove as our stove has legs as well as the toe kick at the bottom of the kitchen cabinets. I only wipe up where human steps are so it's not slippery. Also, I use the Borax (Terro is the hardware store version retail product) which works well if put about the outside perimeter of the house next to both side of doorways and every 20 feet. I put a fresh batch down at the early part of spring (Terro has plastic housed product and I stake these in place with a 8" stake made from a metal closet hanger). We have a dry laid bluestone patio so when we see ants popping up between cracks, we use the Terro immediately a few inches away from the entry point on both sides and this kills off the nest in a couple days.
brilliant idea...will try this...
I became so invested in this video. 😂😂
I had like 4 of these in my carpet due to two Cheetos on my floor.. so I vacuumed them and I got the ants and nests. But then I checked my closet and saw a few loose one's going around. The ants I have though are about the size a few pieces of sand.
I doubt you got the nests. They are usually hidden away inside a crack or small hole that leads into a bigger chamber. They are good at hiding.
What did you use to spray the nest
Just something we bought at the grocery store. Nothing special.
I've got a fire ant problem in my backyard. There's a huge colony out in this little clearing where my dogs like to go and I've already used bait for wiping out colonies, soap water, not much has worked. Any tips ?
They are tough and I've been lucky to not have them. My brother did. I've seen baking soda and vinegar. I've seen the dig up the mound and flood it with toxic chemicals. On his we did the latter, but he had to keep doing it for a couple of months because I guess the larva keep hatching for weeks. Sorry I can't be more help. Good luck and if you find a cure, post a video and let us know!
With fire ants you can use ant gel or combine maple syrup with pesticide (Just make sure you don't put a lot of pesticide or else the ants won't take the bait) and place it on a wooden plank over the nest, hill, opening, and if the ants start to gather around it, it means it will work. What happens is that the ants take the poison to their 2 stomaches, their own stomach and their social stomach, which works as a personal lunchbox. Then the ants head back to the nest to give the food to the entire colony with the social stomach with a process in which they feed the young, larvae and the queen like a bird does with their babies. The elder ants are the ones that take the bait and spray the poison to the rest of the colony. Another method is to feed them flies, earthworms, and basically any outer insects, like cockroaches, as they might carry disease that can destroy the colony. Spraying won't work. The fire ant species' queen lays eggs every minute or so, and colonies grow EXTREMELY LARGE. (Some info from AntsCanada)
Great, simple video!
Excellent!
hi have put some granulated sugar on my large outdoor balcony and they aren’t coming near to the sugar so added some honey on the top of it and still they aren’t interested, does this only work indoors? If so any suggestions for outside ants please. Many thanks.
That's really odd. They must have a much higher energy source of food to ignore sugar/honey. They love soda pop.
@@tsbrownie thanks I read cornstarch is quite good so am trying that will also try orange juice as mentioned on here. I just have a feeling they are in a lot of my plants pots. I also seem to have tons of greenfly this year which I think they encourage 😳😳thanks
What spray did you use?
Something off the grocery store shelf. Nothing special.
What spray did you use
Just something from the grocery store.
great video...ty
I Did the same thing and I found out that they were living inside of my wall in a crack
OMG thank you I needed this now I need to put this to the test
Keep in mind you may have more than 1 nest. Last time I had SIX!
Thanks 🙏
Nice video thanks
Mine are outside on a big balcony. Just put sugar down. Can you please let me know what you spray them with. many thanks.
I just bought a can of bug spray from the grocery store. It's not special.
@@tsbrownie ok 👌
Thank you!
What did you spray the nest with?
Just spray I bought at the grocery store.
very interesting
You certainly rang the "dinner bell", luckily i found the nest without having to do that, but it was pure luck! Thanx so much, i would rather have any other insects than ants, they are smart plus they all have different job to do via orders from the queen, who usually does not come out, i heard sometimes maybe if she needs or wants a different mate, omg so gross, I also know at some point, there will be another colony, so I take eco friendly results, every day, thats how much I really don't want them to come back ever, wish me luck, cuz if I have to i will use your method, reluctantly, but your right!!!👍👍btw good job, your method , i can see does work!♥️
What if the nest is somewhere you can't reach?
I need to make a video on that. You use a slow poison that they take back to the nest and feed others. It will take about 2 weeks to work. A common one is mixing boric acid in hot water with sugar. You do not need much. Do not mix a lot because it goes bad. Leave the sweet mix where they will find it and let them eat it. video: ua-cam.com/video/fBtdKrWNaEM/v-deo.html
Thanks for the video! You mentioned following them to the outside. How did you accomplish that?
You are welcome. If you have trouble seeing the trail, placing the sugar out like I show will increase the number of ants and make them easier to follow. I had one trail that came from the roof of our townhouse 5 floors up and down to the kitchen! I could see them by looking up along the side of the house (it's white). The nest was under the neighbor's roof tile.
@@tsbrownie wow that is crazy diligence and even crazier ants...guess they would walk a mile for a CARAMEL?!
@@LindaRicaLIVE its for the colony though
what did you spray them with?
I am not sure, just something we bought at the store. Seems to work well.
Ahhh ok :) Thanks for the valuable video . Unfortunately my ants come from under the old parquet floor through the joints between the boards. The first trail I found made me think that it was only one joint they come through.. but as I covered that one, the ants just found other joints to come out through. .. I was wondering how these ants react to insecticides such as RAID or K300/K600 stuff like these
I was using something similar, just off the shelf bug spray. It's very effective. The ants may have a nest in the gaps under the parquet floors, I had that happen on the top floor of my house.
My Aunt had a colony of ants crawling out of the plug outlet they were even crawling under the bed me & my cousin had to move the bed out & thousands of them were in straight lines coming out of the outlet I never seen that much ants before ugh 😣😖🙁😕🤢🤢🤢
This is what's happening in our kitchen! Any advice on killing ants behind an outlet??
@@JaeLynn2121 get exterminator
THat trick about blowing on them I hadn't known.
😂,, I thought it was pretty cool actually myself 👍,, I shook a can & they scattered in every direction 😂Them some smart little buggers & all for dem queens ,, & I dont want a queen here nowhere 😊,,,,, but me 😂🤣
great video
Ugh a few are in my closet but nowhere else. There's no food in the closet. Driving me crazy trying to find how they're getting in.
@winternightsky6945 The holes can be ridiculously small and hidden, and they usually have multiple. If they have a nest in the floor or walls, the best luck I have had is feeding them a slow poison like boric acid and sugar, or one of the commercial ones. It can take days or weeks. Happy hunting.
Me when no one is at home😂😂...Great Video🔥❤
is borax poisonous to humans? i dont want them consume it and die near food or something..
You can search it. From wikipedia: "Borax, sodium tetraborate decahydrate, according to one study, is not acutely toxic. Its LD50 (median lethal dose) score is tested at 2.66 g/kg in rats, meaning that a significant dose of the chemical is needed to cause severe symptoms or death. The lethal dose is not necessarily the same for humans."
Thanks!! I have so many ants in my room!
I bet they're gone by now
How'd you get rid of them
Am I right in thinking that if you treat the ants now you can eradicate the colony before they grow wings and start flying around the house?
They can spread on the ground or in the air. But many times the "flying ants" are actually termites!
Great video Thanks.
Thanks. Used my own advice again yesterday!
I wish you have shown the nest.. want to know what it looks like.
In a house they look like a small hole (or many) where the ants are going in and out. Unless you tear out the walls, floor, or ceiling you won't see the actual nest.
I believe I have tons of tiny tiny ants that live in my carpets.the carpet that's connected to my kitchen flooring.idk how to get rid of them bc they r in carpet that's very old n thick. N the vacuum isn't really strong enough to duck them out of the carpet? Help n also anyone else have this same problem I do
You might consider having it professionally cleaned.
I have medium size black ants in my gaming room, it’s not a lot, I’ll see like one or two every ten minutes. But they don’t stop coming and I have no clue where there coming from because on is on one wall and another is on the other. Anybody have advice?
I have something similar. Occasional medium-size black ants on the walls in my living room behind my desk - i.e., no food or water to attract them. Just a few at a time. I blew on one and it just froze in its tracks on the wall.
lmao that is oddly funny to me. you try the blowing trick and he just freezes hahah
Ha! I guess that is pretty funny. Maybe I need more (or less) mouthwash.
Thanks friend, got these darn fire ants in my house.
I have them in my bedroom and there's carpet any tips to figure out what there going to or where there coming from
Are they going under the carpet? Can you lift it up? The nest may be in the carpet!
tsbrownie what if you can't lift the carpet? the carpet's all over the bedroom floor???
Unless it's glued you can lift them. Find a friend that knows how to do it. I'd do a video, but we don't have carpets because of allergy issues.
Yeah, because I saw one in my room and there’s some in my kitchen and I honestly don’t know where is it coming from? Please help me.
There is so much ants the day before on my island where I was cutting fruits and they were some on the cutting board I’m like where is this coming from?
What do you spray with, and what if I’ve found them both in my kitchen, and living room? Thanks!
After I found the next, I just sprayed the hole with the stuff I bought at the grocery store. Be sure to protect your eyes and face when you do that because sometimes it squirts back out of the hole!
When you say spray them....spray them with what? Cotton ball just has sugar to attract to find trail is super cool. I liked how you showed results.
Spray the nest. If you spray the worker the nest just makes more, so it's important to find the nest.
But, spray with what?
I just use any of the stuff they sell at the grocery store for ants.
Laura L. Brown Water + dish soap works very well to kill ants, but I don't think it destroys the nest
Thank you
When you find their nest what did you do,what you spray on them canyou tell me😊😊🙆♀️🙆♀️please
I have red ants in my home ,when they bite its hurt too much ,i don't what should i spray on them
I used a spray from the grocery store. If you can wait, the slower but 100% method is to use boric acid and sugar. I have a video on that. ua-cam.com/video/fBtdKrWNaEM/v-deo.html
@@tsbrownie yeah ,thanks ,i will watch this video you share 😊😊🤗💕💕
This guy is smart
wow cool perfect for my ant farm 👍
I used to have an ant farm until my mom found it under my bed. 2 bits of advice: 1) never forget to close it and 2) keep them outside!
Impressive!
Wow, they sure seemed to panic when you blew on them...
Would rather have watched you literally track them to the outside... splendid none the less.
Thanks for sharing... Off to track & hunt... 🕵♀
p.s. What type of spray did you use?
Just usual ant and roach stuff from the grocery store. Can't remember which brand.
So tired of ants ending up on my bed, think they're on my clothes and then start biting me when I happen to be laying down and ugh
We used to have ants in every room, then we banned food of any kind outside the kitchen. The ants now only come to the kitchen. Much easier to control.
@@tsbrownie I do have a lot of soda in my room, maybe that's what's attracting them although how would they smell soda from outside haha
They love sugar and soda. They don't smell it, they send in scouts and they can find anything!
I always have ants in the sink..
EVERYTIME AND I HATE IT
SAME! But I fixed the problem, just add some cinnamon in the sink.
But now they are behind my sofa. THOSE PESKY ANTS!
they are probably around the sink because you pour down sweets such as soda.
I wash them down lmao
Thanks 👍
You are welcome.
I have ants everywhere. Even in holes. Time to burn my house down
There are probably safer alternatives.
@@tsbrownie LOL
Thanks!!!!!!!!
You're welcome!
the ants are like retreat
Thanks
I have a mega infestation. They crawl out of the woodwork man, so annoying
For that I would do the boric acid / sugar thing. Boil a small amount of water, add boric acid (like in eye wash) and stir until no more will dissolve. Add sugar until no more will dissolve. When it's cool enough to work with pour small amounts in soda bottle caps and leave it near their trails. That's worked for me in the past. BUT you must make sure they don't have sources of "clean" food or you will never get rid of them. ua-cam.com/video/fBtdKrWNaEM/v-deo.html
I am finding ants going in the freezer. Most of the food is sealed and they just freeze to death. What can I do
The best thing is to find the nest and spray it. Anything else is pretty much a temporary solution. Be really careful when using poisons around food and in the kitchen!!!
Dude how tall are you
About 186 cms or 6' 1". Much bigger than my prey! ;)
What country are you from?
USA
Thank you this was so helpful never had trouble with ants but my baby niece was eating a Lolly pop and she put the candy at the back of the living room table and I didn’t see it and now I cleaned the whole area but I saw a lot of little ants and now I have a big problem. I clean washed the whole living room and vacuum but they keep coming back so annoying! I’m trying to find where they are coming from but I have one question, how do I close or seal off the hole they are coming out of? Plz help I hate ants it makes me feel like I’m a dirty person!
First you have to poison the hole. Second, closing the hole depends on the material - wood use wood putty; cement /brick use cement or caulking; sheetrock use patching compound; etc.
I’ll try this, we have an ant problem and it started off near and in the bathroom, they managed to get to the kitchen..
I just have to convince my family to listen and try the idea, apparently just spraying the small trial of ants to them will kill them off for good..
Thank you again
It's not spraying the trail, but follow the trail back to the nest and spray the nest.
He sounds like an austranaut
Houston we have a ant problem.
Thank you so much! Now winning!
Good luck!
@@tsbrownie Man, they were driving me nuts. I found the route - I put a line of ant powder at my doorway and a quick vacuum sorted the problem. Thanks so much!
wait, wha ttype of sugar is that
Ordinary sugar from a bag.
Clever
I can't do that just seeing one or two in my house gives me anxiety. I clean my drains twice a day with vinegar and baking soda then they are back again the next day. I live in a second floor condo.
what did you spray it with? and did you spray it into the hole? the ants are crawling in between the cracks of my table 😭🤮
Be careful when using spray, it's poisonous and it can damage furniture finishes. I used a bug spray from the grocery store. I often used one with a fine tube to get into holes where the nest is.
Thats cool and all if its just a trail, but for some reason the ants are in every room of my small apartment: the living room, bed room, kitchen, and bathroom. And they're here year round, but its the worst between late march-september. It stresses me out so bad but i cant afford an exterminator.
First you need to eliminate sources of food. Only eat in the kitchen, and keep that area clean. Then put out the poison traps. It's literally years between times where I have to do this. It works.
OMG THIS SOUNDS LIKE THE VOICE IN FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDYS THE ONE THAT KEEPS CALLING YOU
My son likes that game. I'll see if he agrees.
. Thank you.
I followed the ants back and ended up like Kurt Russel in Bone Tomahawk.
Wow, you ended up rich and handsome??? I'm going to try that more often!!!
He was definitely not in Bone Tomahawk
I ended up like Kurt Russel from Tombstone and got my revenge against the raiding Cowboys gang.
Does this work for uncles, too?
An ant's uncle would be the queen's brother, so yes I guess it does.
I ❤️ ants
Yeah the ant problem in my house is getting bad
I've found 6 different nest in my house at one time. If you don't get them all they come back real fast.
High quality. Relief from instructions using gargled words that cannot be understood. Wannabe and actual salesmen, politicians and lawyers.
LOL trying to watch the vid then sees a ant on my ipad.......
They also do research, now they know your next move.
Buy Borax mix with honey
ua-cam.com/video/fBtdKrWNaEM/v-deo.html
I live in a flat and have ants how??
I have seen them travel 200 meters across yards, streets, and up the sides of 5 story buildings for food.