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ucfvgirl · Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Location: Bundang

Hey everyone. Just wondering if anyone has had any experience with tiny red ants in their apartments. I live in Bundang/YoungIn and I had them last year as well. I am just wondering if anyone has had success using a particular product to get rid of them for good. When I see them, I spray them with something that looks like a Raid can. But I am hoping to find something that I can put down to stop them from coming in all together. Any suggestions? I am getting really tired of them and I think they bite.

vlcupper · Joined: 12 Aug 2004 Location: Gangnam

Have you tried cinnamon? It's supposed to be an irritant for ants. I don't know if these red ants are immune, but I used it once in college when I had ants, and it seemed to work. Just sprinkle it where ever they're coming in.

ucfvgirl · Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Location: Bundang

Thanks for the tip. I'll try that.

korea252 · Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Location: Seoul, Haebangchon

Hi there
I had the same problem a couple of weeks ago - hundreds of ants all over my apartment. I put down some shop bought traps which contain poison, the ants take the poison back to the nest which kills the colony. The shop bought traps were a bit slow to take effect so I made my own - with better results. All you need to do is buy boric acid from a pharmacy and mix a teaspoonful with sugar and some dried food (I used cat crunchies) and leave it where ants walk. It seems to be more enticing to the ants than the shop bought traps - careful if you have pets though as you don't want them to get sick from eating the stuff.
So far so good - I've not seen any ants recently.

kermo · Posted: Wed Jul 26, 2006 10:34 pm Post subject:

I feel your pain. When I moved into a place in Seoul (Seocho) I discovered them everywhere, marching in little lines down the bathroom wall, in the kitchen (all over my chocolate bars! Crying or Very sad

), on my computer screen, you name it. I bought those little ant-traps, but they didn't seem to do much good. Maybe the nest was too big. I don't think they bit me though.

Cayenne pepper, if you can find where the ants are coming in, has proven to be a good deterrant for me in the past.

Tiberious aka Sparkles · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Location: I'm one cool cat!

We had the same problem for about a year, until I found the queen and killed that beeyotch.

No more ants.

(Now if I could just find a way to get rid of these damn crabs.)

_*_