What is the best way to kill ants without pesticides?

Shoes.

I’ve used ant traps before.. they work great.. but only for a while.. gotta keep buying em.

NaturalMineralWater Do you know any other things that might work?

@Ailia Sorry no, I have only used those ant traps.

try vinegar most bugs hate it or it kills em…dont stamp on em it lets out some kind of scent that attracts more

Thanks noodle_poodle but I’ve tried it and they just keep on moving….:/ But I think I now got it under control so I’m going to bed. Night

Ant like sweet sugary things , why not get a bowl or vase they can climb up but not get out of . Add the sweet stuff and watch them enter the safe live trap , release or whatever when its full . Then spray around the area with ant repellent .

Place the food bowl inside a plate of clorox. The dog can still reach the food, but the ants can’t get across the clorox.

Ring the dogs dish with a ring of powdered cleaning detergent. They won’t cross it.

My parents used to buy a chalk that contains the most deadly poison. Basically what we need to do is to draw lines near the ants route. That killed all of them.

Formula 409 works great. It’s what I use and it does the job. Plus after spraying them you wipe up the scent. Others will just come back if the smell of the trail remains.

I summon a troop of tiny knights to do battle with them.

A tiny flamethrower.

No scientific proof to back this up, but my grandma (among others) swore by placing copper coins at the entrance of the door (or any other place where you detected them coming in).
One at the left door-post, and, you guessed it, one at the right.
Might not work, but it’s a very cheap way, if it dóes.

NAPALM!!!!

a REALLY BIG magnifying glass

Well the first thing is don’t leave dog food out. Ii’s better for the dog to limit feeding to a regular schedule when you put the food down for 15 minutes and then remove it.

Scout ants find their way toward a food source and carry that information bak to the nest, laying down a chemical as they go, As others follow that teail and also laying down chemicals. That’s why you see the ‘conga line’ across the room. Ater you take away the food source, you have to obliterate the trail or they will wander around looking for something else. You can use any cleaning product, even vinegar, and when you find the entry point, spray about 8–10” around that spot. When you wipe up the ants you are also wiping up their scent trail and any other ant that follows it into the house will lose it where you have sprayed and go back out.

There’s this great stuff called Orange Guard that’s non-toxic and totally pet/kid/food-safe, so you can spray it around the kitchen, or around your dog’s bowl, and not worry about getting chemicals in the dog food (or your food!). I know Whole Foods has it, if you have one near you, but there’s also a link on their website to find where to buy it in your area… Good luck!

Thanks everyone. I’ll go try those things today. :)

Follow them to their anthill and pour boiling a bunch of boiling water on them. Its like an ant apocalypse.