Recommend me an ant powder

[The Moose]

Every year I have to put down some ant powder outside, however this year I have a rather curious cat now and have put it off due to not wanting to poisen the cat!

Can anyone recommend an ant powder I can put down to get rid of the buggers that won't harm my little feline friend?

[vixen1700]

We had a bit of an ant invasion recently and as we have a cat didn't want to put anything nasty down either, heard that Cinnamon sticks and talcum powder works.

Seems to have done the trick and haven't noticed any ants for weeks now.

[Granville]

Anything that breaks their track - talc, Vaseline, grease etc.

We've the problem of them in the house we've just bought and with a 9 month baby crawling the options of bait are tricky.

We've tried the following, placed them out of sight / reach of the baby and we've not seen an ant since

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Home-Defence-Stop-Bait-Sta...

[edc]

I have 2 cats. My solution was to empty out half a can of Doff ant powder where the ants were coming from and keep the cats inside for a day ... this morning there are no ants and this evening I can go back, give it a sweep and hopefully all gone!

[ali_kat]

Granville said:

Anything that breaks their track - talc, Vaseline, grease etc.

We've the problem of them in the house we've just bought and with a 9 month baby crawling the options of bait are tricky.

We've tried the following, placed them out of sight / reach of the baby and we've not seen an ant since

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Home-Defence-Stop-Bait-Sta...

Find the holes they are coming in through and block up with silicone sealant

[Granville]

Zero sign of where they are coming in but they appear mid way in our hallway from under the skirting board -the centre of the house. The ant traps have worked a treat so far, not messy and discreet

[Simpo Two]

What is the active ingredient in the ant powder and is it harmful to cats?

[Pesty]

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ant-Station-MAXFORCE-LN-PR...

These maxforce things are brilliant. I've tried bait stations like these before with mixed results. These can be put outside. Bought 5 fro ebay. Ant disappeared within two days and have not come back.

Very impressed.

Maxforce do a gel bait tube you can also buy but these stations are quick and easy.


Forget using powder. In fact using powder will stop these working.

[krisdelta]

Appreciate this is a resurrection but used this thread as reference for my latest foray in Ant elimination - had a kitchen invasion that started 2 weeks ago, powder did nothing, so I used one of these (similar to the previous posters suggestion), from seeing 10's of them all over the sink / island to nothing in <24hrs. Magic.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004P2TZK0/ref...