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How to get rid of ants?

ouch1976 said:
Frisco, that is hugely admirable of you to spare the ants...but how the hell are you moving a colony of ants?
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Frisco said:
Hello Hitman. During heat waves insects, spiders and various other critters will go places they usually don't go, for survival. In the case of ants, they'll risk the colony a bit by going into a cooler environment that does not necessarily have enough food or shelter for the whole colony.

I displace invading creatures rather than kill them. Most often they follow a food source back outside.. but in a heat wave or heavy rain, they just need the shelter.
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Very well said.

So in that case I'd do as mentioned in a post above and follow the trail as best I could to the queen's den and carefully relocate it to the coolest spot outside I could find, and as far from my house as possible (near shade trees?).
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Good suggestion.

It's a tough call.. some have no trouble at all mass killing invading insects, etc. I just don't see it as necessary most of the time if one is willing to do some work to help the little guys out a bit. They just want to live as long as possible. Same as us. :)
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Definitely. I'm vegetarian because I don't believe in killing other sentient beings. And with bugs...oh, goodness, I used to be TERRIFIED of them. I mean like run for the hills if I saw a bee, or shriek like a girl if I saw a spider. :eek: Now? Not so much! I welcome bees to my yard, and stand right by them while I'm watering my plants or refilling the birdbaths, and don't even bat an eye. I understand them now, and know they're not interested in attacking me unless I attack them first! And I've never been stung, :) I even made an anti-GMO, Save the bees design for my shop.

Even two--count 'em, TWO--black widow spider bites haven't deterred me from relocating, rather than killing, spiders in my house. Ditto for crickets, moths, and just about everything else.

But I had to draw the line at those NASTY, DIRTY, DISGUSTING, DISEASE-SPREADING flies that swarmed my house recently! (Why were flies created anyway? :confused: All they do is spread disease, right?)
 
What about this ant eater??? :D

(Da Dum dum DISH!)

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(Stinky immediately starts running to his stolen bomb proof car!)
 
Ants ants ants.

What about the uncles? Hey, I have one that I can never get rid of once the good beer is brought out.





:D
 
zuben el genub said:
Our school mascot was an Aardvark - why didn't you use a pic of an Aardvark?
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Oh my hat! :eek:

HOW did you know that name????

Hmmmm...... I wonder where you are really from some times.

You are right! Zuben el Gunebez! :D I used the English word because this place is filled with Yankies that don't know Afrikaans! ;)

Hmmmmmmm.... Stinky wonders where you are from Zuben el Gunebez...

Hmmmm... where did you hear that word zuubez?

Ahh I am really glad you had an Aardvark (you also spelt it right too!) as your school mascot bruizer! :)

Hmmm wait a sec... I have got a trolly plan here!

I need to see what school(s) have that Mascots here!

HAH!

Yes that is it!

I am on the case ek se!

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I am SO on to you Zubenz of el gunubezezes! :-)
 
lunatic59 said:
I thought that's what the aunts were for. :p
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In most cases, I concur.

However my uncle's wife drinks so much of the bad beer (Budweiser, Coors, etc) that she calls good beer "stink beer."

So she thinks he's suffering secretly.

She's fine with that.



..lol .. :D etc
 
"All right Ant; I'm coming to get ya"

Anyone remember the Ant and the Aardvark cartoon?

AFAIK, Aardvark means Earth pig. Looks a bit piggy. How about the Aardwolf?

I'm addicted to nature programs, and etomology.
 
zuben el genub said:
"All right Ant; I'm coming to get ya"

Anyone remember the Ant and the Aardvark cartoon?

AFAIK, Aardvark means Earth pig. Looks a bit piggy. How about the Aardwolf?

I'm addicted to nature programs, and etomology.
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Say haaaaat!?! :eek:

You ARE a South African!!!!

I knew it I knew it I KNEW it! :)

Nobody unless you are from the good old crime center of the universe and speak Afrikaans! :)

Yes it is "Earth Pig" ;)

Is jy die skommel konnin Zebun El Gunubez? :D

LOL don't tell the others I am being rude!!!! :D:D:D:D

But I just joking! :)

Die dom en dwars mense op hierdie "Android Forums" praat nie Afrikaans nie sodat ons kan enigiets wat ons wil se! :D

Hulle verstaan nie so moenie bekommerd wees nie! :)

:D

I had a feeling you were not a Yankie Zuben El Gunubez! :)

You from Free State dude? :)

I am from Durban bruizer! :D
 
If you put boiling water on them and the next day there were more, it was probably the nest. I had a lot in my lounge once, everyone told me I wouldn't get rid. The first thing I did was make small sugar mounds. That gave me a really good idea where they were as they took back to nest. Then I mixed in increasing levels of borax, which did an excellent job of keeping them down. Once ant season was over I dissolved borax in hot water, poured down nest, and sealed up hole. The following year, I spent a few hours every morning for about 10 days searching for ants, finding where they wanted to make a nest, and ruining it. Time consuming but it worked.
 
Rxpert83 said:
I've always heard that with slugs. It dries them out
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Quite the opposite, salt literally liquifies slugs and snails.

For ants, any powder will do, talc works. It messes with their scent trail and they don't like walking on any kind of powder, it's too fine.

Their are sprays you can get that 'stick' to the ants so they end up infecting the whole colony.
 
@Stinky (I posted in wrong forum)

Actually I'm a sky-blue pink polka-dotted alien from Akrab.

Amerikaaner. My mother spoke some PlattDeutsch and from reading history of words I can catch some. I like meeting others and hearing their viewpoints.
 
There is certainly less of them, but they aren't going away yet. The traps seem to be helping, but I'm also using a combination of Raid spray with the traps to get rid of them. The weather is cooling down quite a bit, so I anticipate that they will start going away for good soon enough.

EDIT: I also have been unsuccessful in finding where they are coming from.
 
Is it too late to suggest fire, and lots of it?
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I take it you have not been able to locate their nest? There should be one somewhere close to your home, where the queen continues to pop these bebies faster than you can kill them off. If I had to guess, the nest might be somewhere in very close proximity to the home, perhaps in a location that's normally out of reach.

Another thing I'd suggest is the type of 'repellant' you're using, are you certain the ants are taking the poison back to the colony or are they dying mid-transit? If none of the chemicals find their way into the nest, it's not going to do much good, especially if you haven't located it yet.

(Still think fire's a good alternative :3)
 
Ladies and gentlemen, anyone experiencing an insect problem, be it spiders, ants, bees, mosquitos, or pretty much anything else, needs to be aware of a product called Ortho Home Defense Max.. This product is like magic. You spray it around the perimeter of the affected area (inside and outside) to keep new bugs out, and also saturate areas that are problematic (I.e. Lots of annoying bugs around) and it kills them dead.

The great part about it, is it is safe to use around pets and children (not directly on pets, but in areas they frequent) and once it dries it is virtually non toxic. I had a flea infestation of epic proportions about 6 years ago, and this was the ONLY thing that worked, out of the 10 or so methods I tried. I would recommend you go pick up a gallon and spray those little ******* dead. ;)
 
SwoRNLeaDejZ said:
Ladies and gentlemen, anyone experiencing an insect problem, be it spiders, ants, bees, mosquitos, or pretty much anything else, needs to be aware of a product called Ortho Home Defense Max.. This product is like magic. You spray it around the perimeter of the affected area (inside and outside) to keep new bugs out, and also saturate areas that are problematic (I.e. Lots of annoying bugs around) and it kills them dead.

The great part about it, is it is safe to use around pets and children (not directly on pets, but in areas they frequent) and once it dries it is virtually non toxic. I had a flea infestation of epic proportions about 6 years ago, and this was the ONLY thing that worked, out of the 10 or so methods I tried. I would recommend you go pick up a gallon and spray those little ******* dead. ;)
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Does Home Depot carry this magical liquid? Lol
 
I just saw an article somewhere where an ant nest can take up a very large area. That means that if you are spraying near the house, the rest of the nest is farther away, and the spray isn't doing anything. You probably need something ants will track into the nest.

Sprays do get some of them. We had some red and black sidewalk ants that bit. If you went to pull weeds in the rocks they were all over you. We would spray the area first, wait a bit, then do the weeding.
 
I get what you're saying but gone defense works like a barrier, like a repellant, trust me, home Defense is the way to go.
 
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