Gosh, I Hate Them The Most.
By rakski
@rakski (134744)
Philippines
March 20, 2025 1:21am CST
Those red fire ants, I hate them the most! They look good on that photo but they are not cool and cute at all. Their bite stings. Since it is summer now here, I can see them almost every day here on my kitchen counter. But today, I saw them in my daughter's room. They are coming out from the electrical outlet beside the bed and my daughter saw them on the bedding. And I just changed the bedding and cleaned it yesterday. At night time, I spray vinegar on the kitchen counter but I cannot on my daughter's bedroom. For now, I put the chalk roach and ants killer.
A few days back, I played with them putting them in a bowl of water. 
But they are making me go crazy as time goes by 
Any advice?15 people like this
15 responses
@DaddyEvil (144031)
• United States
20 Mar
I haven't seen fire ants in my part of Missouri yet but we have tiny black ants that love to come in around our kitchen window. Every year, I send Pretty out with a good ant spray and she sprays around the windows and along the base of the house with it. After that, we don't see them again until the next spring.
Vinegar and Diatomaceous Earth (a chalk-like substance made from fossilized algae) are both good for keeping ants away. Vinegar interrupts the scent trails (signals) that ants leave everywhere they walk and confuses them. They don't like the scent vinegar leaves behind. Diatomaceous Earth gets into the ants' armor and dries them out and kills them.
I hate ants of all kinds. I hope you can get rid or them.
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@arunima25 (89416)
• Bangalore, India
20 Mar
You have got some good advices here in the comments below. Hope that they are helpful. Cloves keep ants away. You can keep few in your daughter's bedding, below mattress and pillows and see if it helps. They are not cute at all, they are annoying.
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@terri0824 (5037)
• United States
20 Mar
Interesting that cloves work...will have to try that one, as it is the time ants start appearing where I live.
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@kareng (71007)
• United States
21 Mar
Oh that would be concerning. I hope you can get rid of them. DE that @DaddyEvil is talking about below is a good choice and a natural way to get rid of ants and other pests.
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@allknowing (142658)
• India
21 Mar
They mostly come for anything sweet.. We keep sweet stuff in a water mote. And we also spray NOTIX
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@allknowing (142658)
• India
21 Mar
@rakski They are mostly seen where there is food. A mystery indeed
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@rakski (134744)
• Philippines
21 Mar
@allknowing I know, right? that is a wonder why they are in the bedroom
@snowy22315 (186891)
• United States
20 Mar
They are so nasty. They are moving North and may be in this region noe.
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@RebeccasFarm (93070)
• United States
20 Mar
I am not sure if cinnamon would work for these ones..but they do here just the smalll ants.
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@Marilynda1225 (84105)
• United States
20 Mar
I agree that those red fire ants have a nasty bite. Ants can certainly find the tiniest of spaces to come through. Hope you can find a way to get rid of them.
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@2ndchances24 (10119)
• Cloverdale, Indiana
20 Mar
call pest control is the next best thing to do is my thought
cause them things can really hurt & can do some damage if
a person is stung enough., their almost like bees.
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