Getting rid of ants!

So I woke up this morning and found ANTS on Xanders cage! Luckily I leave his door open at night because he tends to like switching between sleeping in the cage and on a rop perch I have suspended next to it. So this morning when I woke up I saw him sleeping on the rope perch. I went to put him to have some breakfast and ants were all over his cage!! I was so mad! I took the cage apart and disinfected it (which meant Xander had no cage for most of the day) and I started wiping the little nasty creatures away! I vacuumed, wiped, squished. But they kept coming back!!!

So I've been trying to get them gone ALL day and I even tried to use hot glue to seal little holes in the wall near the crease of the carpet over night. Somehow they keep finding a way around!!!!

Its about 3 am now, I woke up purely because I wanted to check for ants, and there were more again!!!! They were even starting for his cage again!!!

So I looked up natural ant deterrents. A whole list came up and Cinnamon was on there. So I sprinkled cinnamon were the ants were coming thorugh and it looks like its doing the trick! I also sprinkled some around the cages just to be safe. I really hope this works! :51:

I'm also planning on spicing up the food tomorrow with cinnamon. Makes it something fun for the birds and hopefully it will keep the ants away! I saw an ant come into contact wit the cinnamon and it went crazy! I put the poor sucker out of its missery

I'm just so mad there was ants in the first place!

One more thing you can do if you are not already doing it is to remove all food from the cage at night, even the crumbs. Another effective treatment is to spread vaseline on the cage legs. good luck!!

thanks for the tip with the cinnamon!! will try that

If your ant problem is as bad as it is I would call a bug person, they might be living somewhere in your house with a colony just to replace those that are lost.

Well we had an ant treatment spray that worked great! It lasted for 2 months with every treatment and we had no ant at all! It ran out though and then all of a sudden it was like they were on a crusade for our house!

Oh and btw guys, the cinnamon worked really well! Better than I hoped! There are some stragglers today but I'm wiping and vacuuming again. I'm also re applying cinnamon and putting a bit more where it looks like there are possible holes. My room also smells really good-like cinnamon! Oh and the birds really like the cinnamon food too lol.

And I might just try that Vaseline thing if they come back!

When I lived in Florida, we had an awful ant problem. Just when we thought we got rid of them, they would be back. Good luck!

I've found ant moats to be very effective- I rehabbed wildlife down in SW FL, so the ants could be terrible around the outdoor cages if we let them. If the cage is set up with 4 legs like a table, put a shallow dish under each one (plastic planter dishes work well, and they're cheap) and just keep it filled with water. Make sure the cage isn't touching anything, like the wall, where ants could access it.

I make ant poison with borax. I use a cup of hot water, a few tablespoons of sugar, and one teaspoon of borax. I mix it and dissolve in the water. Then I leave it in a small bowl next to where the ants are. Within a few days, they are all gone and they stay gone until the next year. If you're worried about your bird eating it, you can put it in a bottle and let the ants eat it inside the bottle, or you can put it where the bird can't get to it. Sometimes the ants won't eat the poison if you put in too much borax. You can buy a box of borax in the laundry aisle of the market.

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I make ant poison with borax. I use a cup of hot water, a few tablespoons of sugar, and one teaspoon of borax. I mix it and dissolve in the water. Then I leave it in a small bowl next to where the ants are. Within a few days, they are all gone and they stay gone until the next year. If you're worried about your bird eating it, you can put it in a bottle and let the ants eat it inside the bottle, or you can put it where the bird can't get to it. Sometimes the ants won't eat the poison if you put in too much borax. You can buy a box of borax in the laundry aisle of the market.

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This really does work, had a ant problem last summer and put this in the active area and they were gone by a week I believe

Just thought I bring this back up, we never had ants coming in the house until this year and they were coming in pretty bad. I used chalk and marked on the outside of the house where I see them coming in from. Ants does NOT cross the chalk trail and all the excess dust from the chalk was ontop of their trail on the ground, no ants to be seen again. No more ants in the house either. It's a cheap effective way to get rid of them. The chalk was only like 74 cents at walmart, those crayola white chalk, very effective!!!! We haven't seen ants coming in this house for a couple of weeks now.

My outdoor averies were infested with ants becasue of the fresh raw meat that was given to the birds. I use tea tree oil in the averies and it works well. I mix it with water in a spray bottle and spray the permator

My parents (can you believe that I almost typed parronts...) use a mix of molasses and yeast. It works wonders, I dont know how, but they put it in baby food jar caps and put them around the house

Im going to have to try one of these methods. I never really had a problem with ants in the house until now.

Thanks

Hello, I live on the bay in Long Island. Last 2 yrs horrible horrible ant promblem tried everything exterminator and all kinds of products and they were still everywhere. My inlaws live in FL and their Exterminator told them to use Terro Ant baits. These things work AMAZING about $10m\bucks at Ace Hardware, Home Depot, Walmart etc. Amazing. Theres a video about them on youtube. NO ANTS!!!!!!!!!!!