How To get rid of Ants?

You can buy 'ant-traps' if they are bothersome. You can get them at DIY stores or GCs annd even supermarkets! Placed near the nests, they do work.

I use Nipon, dust and gell. Gell indoors mixed with marmalade, dust outside, it also kills wasps. It may not look very attractive to have the dust on the garden, but if you have a pest you need to get rid of it. The rain will soon wash it away.

Thank you Spritzhenry for the advice, funnily enough I did buy a couple of ant traps earlier this year, I had noticed one or two ants coming into my home, but I haven't used them yet. I think I might invest in a few more and place them round the garden, although my garden isn't that big, I do seem to have rather a lot of ants.

Thank you Doctorbob I have used Nippon in the past with excellent results, but can't find the gel anywhere around where I live, I thought maybe it had been taken off the market, do you know where I might get it?

Amazon sell a Nippon spray,and a liquid dispenser as well as the powder. Rentokil sell a gel, I am sure you can buy any of these in a garden centre.

Does hot water not just kill the ants?

If they are in the soil then you could hoe or dig where they are, they don't like to be disturbed. Otherwise just-boiled water sees them off!! But not near plants!!

Hot water only kills a few ants and gives the nest a supply of cooked meat, as ants eat each other when injured or dead.

What a gruesome lot they are!! do anteaters survive outside in Britain?!!

I don't think our ants are big enough for anteaters to eat Volunteer. They like the bigger varieties.

Thank you all for your help and suggestions, I will try them all, all except maybe the Anteater Volunteer, but thanks for the laugh.

Ewwww, yuck, ok, that's one thing I won't do then! Thanks Doctorbob! (shudders!)