le ants

[cimorene]

remember a couple of days ago, when i found a wee colony of ants and wiped them up with orange fantastik? well, that happened a few days later again. didn't think much of it, as each time they were all gone and this was two different places--well, today, they were in the first place, plus a long line across the bottom of the island cabinets, plus around and up all over the giant tupperware we keep dog food in, and in several other places as well. i used a bunch of orange fantastik again, and the mop, and then i found the ant-raid and used that, and went to the post office. came back and opened the window. that stuff reeks. am worried, though. will the raid keep them out? man, this morning... that was GROSS.

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[strangelette.livejournal.com]

that stuff reeks.

You're probably going to have to give it a few days with the windows open, more than that if you need to keep them closed because of a/c. I doused our kitchen last fall and it was horrid. Didn't see another creepy crawly, though, so I say it's worth it.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

i keep it open, a/c or not... unfortunately our house is ancient and there's only one window i can open.

ants? i remember ants. they locked me in a rubber room.

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

If the Raid fails to stop their progress, I have a few suggestions. The first is that ants hate anyting mint, including toothpaste, mouthwash, etc. But that's just a stop gap - I'd try ant traps as an alternative to the Death Spray.

But! these are probably the same damn Argentine ants that invaded both my dorm room and my house in Tuscaloosa. Therefore? Regular ant bait/traps DO NOT WORK. They are totally uninterested in any standard bait that is not Coca-Cola. (I am not making this up - they can find an open can of soda in 5 minutes flat.)

You have to buy SPECIAL bait to please these guys - it's called MaxAtrax, and I think you can get it at Home Depot. That works remarkably well.

Re: ants? i remember ants. they locked me in a rubber room.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

they seem into the dogfood & catfood, actualmente.
wah.

[phineasjones.livejournal.com]

am currently battling kitchen ant infestation. i don't reccomend the spray of death for reasons obvious now that you've smelled it. we are having moderate success putting cinnamon where we think they're coming from. i've heard the mint thing too (a diluted spray of peppermint and eucalyptus oils). and then, of course fanatic cleaning. all of these will take more time than anyone wants to have ants around.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

aughh. well, i actually think they're coming in under the door from outside. i suppose i could line the door with peppermint or something (when the raid smell is gone from it). tried cinnamon last week, unfortunately. fanatic cleaning, ahahhaha. that is SO not me. i'm not-even-bothering-to-eat girl lately.

[tavellafic.livejournal.com]

My suggestion is to track the trails back to the wall where they are coming from, and spray raid into the cracks they are using. This limits the amount of raid you use, and over a period of hours all the ants in the trails and gatherings will go back to the wall and die there. If you give the cracks a good soaking, ants won't be able to use them for months and months, sometimes years.

[cimness.livejournal.com]

if only they were using cracks, but it's not necessary in our house. the utility room isn't airtight along between the wall and the floors--you can stick insulation right out the cracks--because it used to be on the porch before it was walled in. and from there they just go under the kitchen door.

wha

[kwirbx.livejournal.com]

You got something against ants? I'm gonna file a petition against you!

[aeslis]

i don't know what kind of ants they are or if they don't respond to normal bait traps.. >> but you can try what my parents use, which is quite effective: little silver tab traps with bait, and the ants carry it back to the nest and mwahahah, poison them AAAALLL. it works for our house, anyway. maybe you could try?

[cimness.livejournal.com]

traps... i wonder if we already have some ant baits somewhere.

i quite like your MWAHAHAH, aes.