Flying Ant Mating Masses

These are all drones that fought, bred with queens, and died.

It happens every year and can last a couple of weeks. That is a small number of flying drones in the gutters. It can happen that the gutters are completely full and overflowing onto ground in piles as long as the gutters six inches high. There are anthills about nine inches tall and several feet across. The anthills are spaced every twenty - five to fifty feet apart everywhere. That is an incredible amount of ants per mile.

The biggest problem here is we use rainwater. The dying ants fill up the gutters and foul the water cisterns.

The Organic Cure

As soon as I saw the ants breeding on the house, I filled a gallon container with a few pounds of sugar and then filled the container with clean, chlorine free water. The liquid caused more ants to move to the tub after I added about and 1/8th of a cup of salt.

It's a couple of hours for all the ants to move to the container of sugar water. Then the problem is gone. It is limited to quantities ants that are a pound or less than fifty pounds of ants in each gutter and on the ground more ants.

No pesticides.

Sugar-Water must be off the ground

Place the sugar-water on top of something several feet high that will not blow over or fall.

Locate fifty or more feet from the building.

I hope this tip helps. Works for me. The birds eat all the ants near the sugar-water tub.