Help!!! Itty Bitty Ants from Hades EVERYWHERE
Posted By: HappyCat on 2007-09-05
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Does anyone know a nontoxic way to kill these demonic creatures??? They have invaded my office, and I haven't a clue what to do about it. We sprayed outside where they were coming in...didn't stop em. I tried spraying vinegar water on em (slowed em down). I have been thinking about perfuming them to death with Bath and Body Works room spray but that stuff is nasty (in the scent I currently have on hand). I have three cats and I don't like spraying toxic stuff inside the house, but I am about at the end of my rope. Any advice?
Thanks in advance,
HC
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Mine was $150, little bitty rural coop
This on the face of it doesn't seem too bad, what with winter month running the furnace and everything, but I was pretty much living with my gentleman friend and spending less than a total of a week a month at my house, kept the furnace turned down to 55 to prevent pipe-freezing, and didn't have TVs or anything left on. I'm glad I wasn't around to see what it would have been had I been here all winter, with TV, computer, microwave space heater, furnace up to 68, washer/dryer, hot water heater, etc., etc., all running. EEK!
ant free now after 3 weeks in Hades
I know exactly what you are going through. When I have an extreme weather change, they invade. I have had to cancel my last 2 Thanksgiving and Christmas get togethers because it happened to turn off really cold overnight and they came in. This time, we are in a drought and the temperatures spiked up to over 100s for a couple of weeks.
They never start coming in my kitchen...it's always a closet or living room or a bedroom first. I bait, which helps only a little, but to really get rid of them, I agree with the others. You will need a professional service. If you don't get rid of the nests (dirt mounds) on the property, they never will leave your home alone. It didn't help that my neighbor was leaving out her garbage bags overnight near my front door (I live in an apartment building on the ground floor). I had to take my garbage to the dumpster 1/4 mile from my home every single day for a few weeks.
good luck and hope you are soon ant free
Welcome to 2008 - High School Hades
Locally we have had students suspended for:
Posting pictures on myspace making gang signs (not gang members just a very juvenile act)
Posting a revealing picture....
Posting a derogatory blog/rant about classmates, teaches, administrators etc,,,,,
I know that there are lots more for much less offensive reasons but those are the first ones to spring to mind.
I do not agree with children/teens doing this but I also dont agree with the school having such a far reach.
On a personal note My daughter was goofing off with friends while decorating posters and such before an activity. In an instant of total dingyness my daughter holds up a ziploc bag of sequence/beading and gives a thumbs up while pursing her lips.
This was reported to the school as her posting a pic of herself with a "controlled substance". My daughter was pulled from class by security and taken to a room where they started searching her school backpack and binder at which time she called me on her cell. By the time I was able to get to the school (which wasn't very long) My daughter was in tears being interrogated by "security" trying to get her to admit to drug use. We are still battling with the school over this and after a three day suspension are retaining a lawyer to protect her we are trying to get this off of her record. The police THANK GOD declined to pursue charges (For what I dont know)
May be George Orwell wasnt so far off.
Since this MySpace has been deleted and will stay deleted as long as Mom and Dad have anything to say about it
re: Ants
What about those ant traps? Your cats can't get into them and they seem to work sometimes...don't know...just a thought...I usually vacuum them up and then spray...
Some ants come in for water as much
or more than food. I have heard they don't like to walk thru talcum powder. You can put a circle of it around pet water bowls if that is the draw for them. See if you can find where they are coming in, both the inside entry point and the outside. Plug holes with silicone caulk or expanding caulk like STUFF. A natural product is diamateous earth (not the kind used for pools, though). Use only outside, or it may be okay in crawlspace, but not sure. You don't want to breathe it, so wear a mask while pouring. Once it is down it harmless to people and pets, but when hard-bodied insects walk through it, the texture tears their exoskeletons up and kills them. But it is washed away by rain, so very expensive. Depends on how rainy your climate is as to whether it will work for you.
they may be carpenter ants and you need
professional help or at least heavy duty stuff - they actually eat wood. Better search internet and identify. If they are run of the mill ants I think boric acid in a line will keep them from crossing.
We have the same trouble with ants in the summer.
around the areas you think they are coming in. The only thing is if you have a small child, this may pose a risk of them getting into if you place it low enough. You could also try sprinkling it outside around your home.
I grew up with fire ants and believe me sm
You KNOW when you've been bitten. They aren't called fire ants for nothing. We do think it might be insect(s) from the tree we bought (see post "something occurred to us").
I just got ants in the pants I guess.
I'm not a Gemini...love-child Capricorn and I swear mom smoked pot ;-)
I do have all the variety I could want though...acute care, clinic notes, ESL, emergency room, even radiology. I even asked about cross-training on eEscription but I guess everyone is too busy right now at this time of year to get me started on that. I even put myself on an on-call rotation to really spice things up and bring in a little extra moola. It's just that no matter what job I've ever had, I get bored with it once I master it...doesn't matter if it's typing, flower arranging, running a stable, playing medical secretary, or even medical assistant. It all comes back to the redundancy of anything driving me nuts!
Oh well. I do feel better now that I screamed. I think it must me almost time for me to surf the crimson tide or something. I almost opened up a can of chocolate frosting to snack on...and that just ain't right.
Thanks for the words of encouragement and just listening to me babble. It's usually only my critters that get to hear that.
my dad had carpenter ants at his home...sm
To discern if they are carpenter ants - look for a sizeable dark/black ball attached to them.......that would tell you they are carpenter ants and the other poster is correct - THEY EAT WOOD in the foundations of buildings/houses, et cetera, and would need professional extermination. Other poster is correct on regular ants and boric acid.
these look like sugar ants, but aren't
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Grant's Kills Ants has worked for me. (sm)
They take the bait back to the queen and it kills her, and then the entire colony.
We just sprayed the perimeter of our house with Ortho Home Defense Max and it killed literally thousands at the site where they were getting into the house (they came out and died near the site - yuck!). So far, so good! It says you can spray it inside too, but I'm like you...I don't like to spray that stuff indoors.
Good luck!
It's an oldie - 'THEM' - about giant ants.
I still think of them every time I drive past that part of the L.A. River near Griffith Park, and see those cave-like tunnels along the side......
problem with ants on my kitchen table
I want to thank whoever recommended Terro. Somebody that my daughter works with gave her some; it is the best. We have tried everything else and I do mean everything else from fogging the house, to raid to wiping down the table completely, so again I want to thank you. All of the ants love it, which is great.
Grant's Kills Ants is the only thing that has worked for me.
Don't know if it depends on the type of ant, but I tried everything and then tried Grant's Kills Ants ant stakes and they worked! Good luck! I hate ants!
If they're those teeny tiny ants, those are the sugar eaters. Got anything
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