Problem with ANTS

[spikejones52002]

Here is two great products. Both made by Terro.

The first is "Ant Dust". Sprinkle it over and around the ant hill. Then take a stick and ruff up the ant hill. They will quickly come up to defend and repair the hill. They find the "Ant Dust" and take it into their hill and it kills all of them.

The second a Liquid dispencer by Terro you get several 1x3 dispencers in a box. I found my kitchen infested with very tiny ants. I placed several in location that I seen a lot of the tiny ants. With in a week  did not see any more. 

The ants do not move. There is so many that you think it is old bunch not just a new.

[GP-9_Man11786]

We have good luck with the outdoor ant traps. They last about three months and seem to keep them under control. If that  doesn't work, I'll really pull the gloves off and use some of the Sevin power I just happen to have around.

[kstrong]

I've had good luck just sprinkling the colonies with corn starch. Every spring, I find a new colony or three around the railroad, and this seems to do the trick each year. Don't know exactly why or how it works, but the important part is that it works, and more importantly won't hurt friendly critters.

Later,

K

[ttrigg]

I second the borax, but in my case I used good ol' peanut butter.  Mix the white borax powder 50/50 with Kraft pb which has icing sugar mixed in to sweeten it.  You only need about half a tsp wiped in the bottom of a jam jar lid, and place two or three around the periphery of your infested area.   You will find the material gone within about 24 hrs, and you should thoughtfully and generously replenish in the same quantity, being the obliging host that you are.  Within a week, no colony.  Queen is in her sarcophagus and her minions are scattered about like the black death got them. 

 

Take care for wandering pets and young children........please.

I like honey and corn meal, myself.  Ants like the honey, find the cormeal granual eawsy to carry.  Take it all down to the Queen.  She likes the corn meal and over endulges.  As we all know get cornmeal wet and tht stuff swells by a factor of ten.  Ever listend to "Poppin Quees"

[hoofe116]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Teran5

Hmm, Windex... truely is multi-surface... by the way, how did you figure that out?

 So now I use window for ants

A new graphics program?

<G> Les

[hoofe116]

pablopicatso -

If you use the boiling water technique, be careful! I know someone who was badly scalded while trying to kill ants when the screendoor slammed in his face!

MK

Huh? Did the ants slam the door in his face?? Eew.

<G>

Les

[selector]

I second the borax, but in my case I used good ol' peanut butter.  Mix the white borax powder 50/50 with Kraft pb which has icing sugar mixed in to sweeten it.  You only need about half a tsp wiped in the bottom of a jam jar lid, and place two or three around the periphery of your infested area.   You will find the material gone within about 24 hrs, and you should thoughtfully and generously replenish in the same quantity, being the obliging host that you are.  Within a week, no colony.  Queen is in her sarcophagus and her minions are scattered about like the black death got them. 

 

Take care for wandering pets and young children........please.

[dougdagrump]

I use the windex indoors but for out of doors I took some 4" sprinkler risers capped one end fill it with a 9 to 1 mix of molasses & borax put on a second cap with a small hole in it and drop them in a few places around the yard. The ants really dig the molasses so they will swarm it and take it back to the nest where the borax will kill all in the nest. The sprinkler risers will help to keep family pets from getting into it as well. 

Now if this stuff would only work on gophers.

[jerryl]

It's probably the amonia in Windex that does the trick..maybe try a 50/50 mix of amonia & water. Get the sudsy amonia & you will have everything Windex has.  Jerry

[ttrigg]

Toad:

Ants breath through their thorax (not so sure of the spelling), IOW their chest & belley.  Fill those little pours with a fiine soap and they cannot breath.  It would be like tying a plastic bag over your head.  You can do the same with wetted water. 

[Anonymous]

Diggin up topics from the grave?

Well, you ever hurd of Windex as ant killer....did not know if it had to be "the" Windex?.

Toad

[Coogler Rail Line]

Diggin up topics from the grave?

[Anonymous]

Vic.

Will the cheapo Windex from a dollar store work to?

I miss Bman!

Toad

[Anonymous]

Target Stores sell an ant gel , just place in different areas and they are gone in two to three weeks. good luck jeff fr KY

[DannyS]

Living in Queensland, Australia, we have a product called Antkill granular, which you sprinkle around where the ants are moving about, and they carry it back to their nest and share it around with all their mates, and they all die, including the Queen Ant, tomorrow no ants. However a new colony will move in after a while, as ants are good colonisers, if they find a property with no ants, they will move in, so we start the whole process again.[^]

[Anonymous]

Hi Pablo,

Here in Florida we have Fire Ants, not only a problem, but they have considerable
bee like bite. I use Spectricide Crystals (Home Depot). One light application
should do the trick. As a side note, last week I was adjusting track on a siding
a memtioned to the wife had she bought another rubber snake for the garden
(We have birds etc in the garden), she said no, so the snake that was 2' from
where I was working was real. These are some of the pitfalls of Garden RR.
Good Luck!

[Anonymous]

May I suggest that you use something completely non toxic to you or your pets: diatomaceous earth, more commonly known as d.e.. just place it in a circle around the ant nest or any place you see an ant trail. Do not put this on your track unless you plan on removing it before operation of your railroad. It comes in powdered form and is available at most pool suppliers. It works by getting in the ants joints . Also, having previously lived in L.A., you will find it works equally well on cockroaches, if you have this problem. D.E. will wash away with the rain (NOT A BIG PROBLEM IN LA),so just reapply

[Anonymous]

Pennyroyal and Transy will repel ants, but I am not sure what would happen to the plants if your area gets snow in winter... please excuse my lack of L.A. weather smarts.

[Anonymous]

try using a 50 /50 mix of icing sugar and borax washing powder it worked for me and they did not come back

[Anonymous]

Well I'm back and a happy camper. Most of the ants were killed by the windex. I sprayed the rest of them so they wouldn't come back. I found out that the and hole came from the house next to mine. It was in their front yard so I took out the windex and they were history. Problem solved.

[Anonymous]

The boiling water works best first thing inthe morning, around 9 am. The ants move the queen closer to the surface to warm her from the colder night air. If you can kill her withthe boiling water, the ant hill is toast. Good luck. Bill

[Anonymous]

I live in Australia and a good repelant is metholated spirits, I am not sure if it is called the same in the US. In Australia metholated spirits has IPICAC added to it to stop people drinking the stuff. If it is the same in the US then this is a good repellant for most insects. Spray the area you want to keep free of insects, you don't have to drowned the area. The metholated spirits will vaporize off the surface but the IPICAC will remain from a few days up to a month depending on the weather. Best of luck

[bman36]

pablopicatso,
Sorry to hear the boiling water did not work for you as I have had exellent results here. Hopefully the windex will! Let us know when the ants are under control and what worked. Later eh...Brian.

[vsmith]

QUOTE: Originally posted by Teran5

Hmm, Windex... truely is multi-surface... by the way, how did you figure that out?

Trial and error,

I've always been around pets and we couldn't use Raid as it wasnt good for our indoor cats, so I started using windex as I notice it killed them almost instantly. So I would spray whole trails, often every day, then I noticed that the ant population would fall off pretty fast after a couple of weeks to almost none. So now I use window for ants inside and out. We have a dog now and the windex doesnt harm him or create toxic areas that I have to keep him out of for fear he might eat toxic grass or something.

Another gardening tip.

Got BUGS in your yard.

Try a 50-50 mix of Mouthwash and Dishwashing soap in a garden hose sprayer, spray the infested area every couple of days and watch the little pests dissappear. If the saop hits them it kills them , the mouthwash does something to the soil and plants so that I beleive they wont eat. Try it IT WORKS!

[mkblk]

You might try your local college. Someone in the etomology (?) department might be able to help you out. I know that Penn State (in Pennsylvania) is very good about supplying such information on almost anything. Can't hurt, give 'em a call.

[Anonymous]

Well I went out to check out the ant problem. The boiling water didn't do much and they got back on my track.

Vsmith,

I remember one time I used windex for a ant problem before. It worked wonders until I forgot. I'll be gone during Thanksgiving so I'll try it before I leave and see the results when I get back.

[Anonymous]

Hmm, Windex... truely is multi-surface... by the way, how did you figure that out?

[vsmith]

I have had great success with Windex, but it takes a couple of weeks to be effective. First, every couple of days, spray on the ant trail and pour the windex down the ant hill. What will happen is that some ants will die from the windex, then other ants will clean up the bodies, take them back to the ant hill and feed them to the larve. this poisons the larve and kills them, the ant population starts to drop, after a couple of weeks the ant popultaion is greatly reduced, some time their gone completely. Its non-toxic and less harmfull than the industrial poisons.

[Anonymous]

bman36,

I thought that boiling water technique was just great. I went out and tried it very carefully. I will see how it turns out tomorrow.

vettbass,

I don't have any live steamers at the time but that C-21made by Accucraft is mighty purdy but way out of my price range.