Every morning when I get home, there are hundreds of ants all over their BML, veggies, and fruits. I don't know what to do. HELP!

I use to have the same problem. I have tile....do u have tile or carpet???? If you have carpet I was told borox powder works wonders!!! For the tile what I did was disinfect really good 3times in a 2week period....then bought bug spray (gallon size) for ants and roaches from Walmart and sprayed out side around my windows and doors and the whole where the dish cord is drilled through the wall. Worked!!!! I just spray every other week they haven't returned!!!

I allow my glider kids to roam in the living room and kitchen so I never spray indoors only in the bedrooms where there is carpet!!!!! And do not spray near their cages. Only outside!!! Good luck!!

you can make a mixture of borax, sugar, and water and put it out for the ants. it will kill them, but make sure to pull it up before you let the gliders out. If you google search it you can find out how much of each to add.

A they teeny tiny ones? If so, they are what my mom calls sugar ants and they are very hard to get rid of. Apparently they have a "season" though so they may subside on their own but they will probably reappear at some point. I would say to try the borax suggestion. Where do you live? Perhaps you should call an exterminator. Maybe they can give you a pet safe alternative to regular pesticides.

put a bowl of soapy water under each wheel, that will keep them from entering the cage. find the way they are coming to the cage and wipe as much of their scent trail as you can with a vinegar water solution.

We had a really bad ant problem too. I found this online and decided to try it out. It's been a week and there hasn't been a single ant in the food dishes and we've only found a few here and there in the house, mostly downstairs and NONE in the kitchen where the mixture was. :) I placed one cap full under the stove, one under the microwave, one in a cupboard, and one on the counter in a spot the cat couldn't get to. Make sure the gliders are kept away from it, mine don't have free run of the house so I only had to worry about the cat.


Supplies Needed

1/2 cup of sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons  Borax
1 1/2 cups warm water
Cotton balls or paper towel
Instructions

1. Mix the Borax and sugar together until well combined.

2. Add the mixture to your warm water and mix constantly until the powder has been completely dissolved.

3. Seal the mixture in a jar or container for future use, and use only what you need in the next steps (and save the rest).  It is important that you clearly label the jar, as it will just look like water.  Do not leave this where children can get to it.  (Because this is such an easy solution to make, however, I only kept what I made until after the ants had been gone for a week or more.)

4. Fill some jar lids, milk caps, or other shallow containers with cotton balls or a wad of paper towel.

5. Add the sugar-Borax solution to the prepared lids making sure to soak the cotton balls (or paper towel).

6. Wait.  It may take the ants a while to find the solution.  But, once they do, let them feast (and take the solution back to their home).  At our house, to speed up the finding process, I placed a couple of the soaked cotton balls directly on the ledge in my kitchen where most of the ants were.

Be prepared – more ants will probably show up once they find the solution.  However, within a day, you’ll probably see much fewer ants.  Over the course of just a few days, all of the ants should likely be gone.  Because we had watched the ants quite a bit, we noticed where they were coming from and made sure to use a sealant to seal the area to stop them from coming back in the future.

Awesome. Thank you Everyone. I'm going to try the Borax solution with the cotton balls.
I thought about placing bait traps around their cage (my gliders do not have free roam) but I was afraid that if an ant (or 2) ate the stuff and went up into the cage and my gliders ate the ants, they would also ingest the stuff.
I moved the gliders to a back bedroom for tonight. I know the ants may find their way back there, but hoping they won't for just one night. :-)
They are the very very little ants. I also thought about lining the table which the cage sits on with sticky stuff so when the ants tried to crawl up they would get stuck. But I'd rather kill the little bastards. LOL
Do gliders eat ants?
Thanks again everyone. This was a huge help. I was so scared to try anything cuz I didn't want to hurt the gliders.
I'll update in a few days, Brandi, Forest, and Jenny

This is exactly the recipe that I was talking about. I did it without the cotton balls and it still seemed to work. Good luck.

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Originally posted by Zyphlat

We had a really bad ant problem too. I found this online and decided to try it out. It's been a week and there hasn't been a single ant in the food dishes and we've only found a few here and there in the house, mostly downstairs and NONE in the kitchen where the mixture was. :) I placed one cap full under the stove, one under the microwave, one in a cupboard, and one on the counter in a spot the cat couldn't get to. Make sure the gliders are kept away from it, mine don't have free run of the house so I only had to worry about the cat.


Supplies Needed

1/2 cup of sugar
1 1/2 tablespoons  Borax
1 1/2 cups warm water
Cotton balls or paper towel
Instructions

1. Mix the Borax and sugar together until well combined.

2. Add the mixture to your warm water and mix constantly until the powder has been completely dissolved.

3. Seal the mixture in a jar or container for future use, and use only what you need in the next steps (and save the rest).  It is important that you clearly label the jar, as it will just look like water.  Do not leave this where children can get to it.  (Because this is such an easy solution to make, however, I only kept what I made until after the ants had been gone for a week or more.)

4. Fill some jar lids, milk caps, or other shallow containers with cotton balls or a wad of paper towel.

5. Add the sugar-Borax solution to the prepared lids making sure to soak the cotton balls (or paper towel).

6. Wait.  It may take the ants a while to find the solution.  But, once they do, let them feast (and take the solution back to their home).  At our house, to speed up the finding process, I placed a couple of the soaked cotton balls directly on the ledge in my kitchen where most of the ants were.

Be prepared – more ants will probably show up once they find the solution.  However, within a day, you’ll probably see much fewer ants.  Over the course of just a few days, all of the ants should likely be gone.  Because we had watched the ants quite a bit, we noticed where they were coming from and made sure to use a sealant to seal the area to stop them from coming back in the future.

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