Ant problem

We had the same with the ant traps but then hubby realised that they were very interested in the flies he zapped so he swept them up, put them in the ant traps, voila, no more ants. They were obviously attracted by the dead flies and then ate the poison in the traps.

on the forum. lot´s of info. (good & other "good")

Villas

Thanks Cheryl, I tried putting a bit of chicken in the traps, half an hour later there was a long line of ants coming from outside in, I think they told all their mates it was party time. Hoping they ate the poison too. 

Hi, unfortunately the link doesn’t seem to be working 🤫

Might be KFC? (poison?) ........I had traps years ago, (these were for flies) They worked fine! attracted from everywhere! must have all come right down to Torrevieja and beyond. I´ll send you some ants!

Villas

We recently had a serious invasion - it was like military manoeuvres and troop movements; it went on for days no matter what we tried. We believe they were living in the wall. 

We did finally manage to eradicate them and win the war by finding their access point and siting one of the poison traps in the vicinity, this worked like a dream but did take two or three days.

Another thing is that they hate vinegar and this deters them, but unfortunately not for long - I washed all surfaces etc with vinegar (white wine since you ask, I wasn’t wasting the sherry vinegar on them!!) and it stopped them in their tracks. However, unless you want a house smelling of vinegar, it doesn’t work successfully for longer than a few hours.

But the chemical traps worked perfectly.

Stephanie,

Thanks so much for your advice. I have become like a woman possessed. 🤪 Every morning I’m checking surfaces and cupboards. I put some chicken in one of the traps but this just seemed to encourage more of them in, streams of them marching along the floor. I can see where they are coming in so I will place a trap there and hope for the best. I will also try the vinegar trick. Wish me luck. 😂 Thanks again. 👍🏻

😂😂thanks.... 

Good Luck!!! DON’T whatever you do put food - chicken, meat, bread, sugar etc - in the trap. You are right it will simply encourage them. The key is to find out where they are entering - in our case right underneath the rear of the kitchen units between the tiny edge of the floor and the wall - and site the trap there. If its a huge infestation then use a couple of traps, but it has to be adjacent to where they are coming in.

We also intermittently have them coming in from a couple of large nests outside near our kitchen door - they enter behind the architrave. I confess that I ruthlessly and immediately spray them,the architrave,the entrance point, all along the skirting and then repeat outside. This does work and I seem finally to have got the better of them also. 

We couldn’t spray the other lot because of work surfaces etc but the trap worked.

Thinking of you!!!