Help Me Kill These ANTS!
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Originally Posted By: Gary Allan
Why is it never the cheap item that's innocuous?? We always appear to have to get reduced effectiveness coupled with increased costs as an alternative.
That has to do with expiring patents, lobbying money, and Big Chem. Patents about to expire? Quick! lobby for a total ban on the chemical.
Borax is cheap, but the ants I tried it on the other day didn't seem to like the taste of a dilute solution in sugar water.
Why is it never the cheap item that's innocuous?? We always appear to have to get reduced effectiveness coupled with increased costs as an alternative.
That has to do with expiring patents, lobbying money, and Big Chem. Patents about to expire? Quick! lobby for a total ban on the chemical.
Borax is cheap, but the ants I tried it on the other day didn't seem to like the taste of a dilute solution in sugar water.
Post a picture so we can ID those suckers!
Originally Posted By: CivicFan
A stupid question here. If the ants are outside and don't come into your house, why kill them?
Because there are too many ants in the world, that anyone should put up with them if they don't want to.
A stupid question here. If the ants are outside and don't come into your house, why kill them?
Because there are too many ants in the world, that anyone should put up with them if they don't want to.
Originally Posted By: CivicFan
A stupid question here.
Maybe.
You have to live with ants to fully appreciate the satisfaction of killing them. Having your kid come in crying with fire ant bites is not enjoyable.
The Ortho "ORTHENE" is about the best I have come across as far as killing quick. It is a white powder, stinks to high heaven, but is very quick and effective.
A stupid question here.
Maybe.
You have to live with ants to fully appreciate the satisfaction of killing them. Having your kid come in crying with fire ant bites is not enjoyable.
The Ortho "ORTHENE" is about the best I have come across as far as killing quick. It is a white powder, stinks to high heaven, but is very quick and effective.
Well, we have a couple of ant colonies in our yard and I have no problem with them. One of the colonies steals food from the humming bird feeder but it's not a problem. When their scouts come into the house we kill them but don't bother if they are outside.
I'm told by those who know such things that a magnifying glass is a quite effective tool to use on ants....
My neighbor uses some expensive stuff called TALSTAR. He says its the best there is.
Keeps them away for months.
Keeps them away for months.
Was mowing the lawn on the Tractor and ran over a small mound about 2' in Diameter.
Went in to get a shovel & 2 cans of ant killer.
Dug down 1 shovel full - HUNDREDS OF THEM!!!!
Sprayed them dead!! The problem - The more I dug, the more I saw!!
Dug, killed.
Dug, killed. Over and over.
Dug down 3 FEET & 3 FEET WIDE!!
One crawled up & bit HARD on the arm.
Got the Queen or whatever I think - small area with a white sack...
Sure hope...............
Went in to get a shovel & 2 cans of ant killer.
Dug down 1 shovel full - HUNDREDS OF THEM!!!!
Sprayed them dead!! The problem - The more I dug, the more I saw!!
Dug, killed.
Dug, killed. Over and over.
Dug down 3 FEET & 3 FEET WIDE!!
One crawled up & bit HARD on the arm.
Got the Queen or whatever I think - small area with a white sack...
Sure hope...............
STILL no pictures? I'm curious as to what kind they are.
Originally Posted By: tpitcher
Rain was about 15 minutes away, I hurried to get the shovel & 2 cans of ant killer. Wanted to get 'er done, didn't stop to think about pictures... Next time (if there is a next time...)
Weird - a Red head, with a black body.
This whole series of posts is weird to me, we have been dealing with imported fire ants for years and years, get some Orthene (or equivalent) sprinkle on mound per directions, 24 hrs later whole mound is dead. forget that digging and spraying stuff. works n any ants that build mounds, termites too (though wont get the whole colony of termites.
If those are big ants red and black likely they are carpenter ants. Those need carpenter ant and termite killer. pyromethrin won't really do much to them.
Rain was about 15 minutes away, I hurried to get the shovel & 2 cans of ant killer. Wanted to get 'er done, didn't stop to think about pictures... Next time (if there is a next time...)
Weird - a Red head, with a black body.
This whole series of posts is weird to me, we have been dealing with imported fire ants for years and years, get some Orthene (or equivalent) sprinkle on mound per directions, 24 hrs later whole mound is dead. forget that digging and spraying stuff. works n any ants that build mounds, termites too (though wont get the whole colony of termites.
If those are big ants red and black likely they are carpenter ants. Those need carpenter ant and termite killer. pyromethrin won't really do much to them.
Hey Pablo...re: the nuclear option. The movie was titled "THEM". That's what the catatonic little girl screamed when the hypnosis kicked in. Nuclear tests in the desert (Nevada?) Killed some poor sap, early in the movie, with their formic(?) acid stingers. The most memorable scene, to me, was when the giant ant came out carrying the skeleton of the cop who got eaten. You could tell, cuz the skeleton had a gunbelt still on it.
I've just realized that I've given a detailed account of a second rate movie I first saw as a ten year old. O M G !!!!!
It's OK. I'll go quietly......
I've just realized that I've given a detailed account of a second rate movie I first saw as a ten year old. O M G !!!!!
It's OK. I'll go quietly......
For Fire ants.. Spinosad baits work very well. For other ants I like to use DE. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth
As a barrier to the house. It will basicly cut the exoskelatan of the ant or any insect that comes into contact with it. One the exo is cut the insect is open to infection but before that happens they simply lose there internal fluid and dessicate.
This is fun. if you have a distrubed dry mound. The grass grows very green around the site once the ants bodies rot out.
My nuke option is orange oil and mollasses mixed in water . Stir up the mound and pour it on. Poke deep holes in there. The orange oil vapors will actually be enough to soften the exoskelatans of the queens . The mollassess speeds up bacterial action and the mound will die if not from melting from infections.
As a barrier to the house. It will basicly cut the exoskelatan of the ant or any insect that comes into contact with it. One the exo is cut the insect is open to infection but before that happens they simply lose there internal fluid and dessicate.
This is fun. if you have a distrubed dry mound. The grass grows very green around the site once the ants bodies rot out.
My nuke option is orange oil and mollasses mixed in water . Stir up the mound and pour it on. Poke deep holes in there. The orange oil vapors will actually be enough to soften the exoskelatans of the queens . The mollassess speeds up bacterial action and the mound will die if not from melting from infections.
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