Please HELP, I've just come across millions of ants in my back garden.
I've just been out to hang out the washing, and there was a pile of flying ants on the patio step, I squashed most of them. Then I noticed them flying around all over, and all the edge of the grass was black with crawling ants. the funny thing is they weren't there yesterday. In fact I haven't had problems with ants for years.
When we had lots of them years ago, we tried everything to kill them, from boiling water to the proper ant killer stuff to a ant catcher, nothing seemed to work. Can't remember how we got rid of them in the end.
Does anyone know of something that definitely kills them. I need all the help I can get.

Mitch.

mix yeast with sugar and sprinkle along crevices, ants take back to nest eat and explode :D

Queen ants generally produce worker, female duaghters who go out on the forage, however, they also produce soldier castes and then eventually sexually mature males and females (charachterised by the presence of wings) - who, when the conditions are correct (usually a humid summer's evening) go on a pre-nuptual flight :D  True...Honest...That is why you are seeing lots of ants, they are all competing for the females.  When mated the females discard their wings and go find a suitable nesting site where they will begin a new colony - the males however....Die!  So all this activity is only a temporary thing, I let the colony's in my garden just get on with it - they aren't doing me any harm...In any case, as long as the queen is still alive it doesn't matter how many you squish - ant colony's can live for around 15 years depending on species :D  Enjoy!!
Sarah

weve had em today, flying and crawling into thje kitchen, buds and candy were torturing them, the horrid little beasts!!lol, its the yeats and sugar tomorrow for them!!

Is it just dried yeast you use.

Mitch

thanks mitch!!the beasts will die....lol.:)

fresh yeast is more attractive to the little............. :D