Freekin ANTS!!!!!
Instructor
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Bug Bomb. Yet you'll have little bodies all over the place. If your want to have then move out and arn't in a rush. Park your car in the hot sun and run a dehumiditifier in the car. Ants need moisture to nest.
I have done this in campers and houses that have had ant problems.
If you have ants in your house, most likely you have rotten wet wood someware.
Michael.
I have done this in campers and houses that have had ant problems.
If you have ants in your house, most likely you have rotten wet wood someware.
Michael.
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From: Tampa, Florida
Ants dislike water and heat.
Leave your windows off and tops off on a sunny day. Ants leave behind a scent that they use for 'directions'. Sweep where you park your car everyday to disturb the scent trail. If you think about it, ants only access to your car where the tires meet the ground. Because ants live in and like social structure any prolonged disturbance will cause the colony to move.
Leave your windows off and tops off on a sunny day. Ants leave behind a scent that they use for 'directions'. Sweep where you park your car everyday to disturb the scent trail. If you think about it, ants only access to your car where the tires meet the ground. Because ants live in and like social structure any prolonged disturbance will cause the colony to move.
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From: Boulder CO
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From: Ofallon MO
I just got rid of some ants at my house. So im all read up on ants. Depending on what type of ants you have, you may not want to use any sprays. It stresses them out and then one nest splits into 2 or 3. Get some Terro liquid ant killer from Lowes or Home depot. They will eat it, bring it back to the nest and feed the rest of them. 
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Joined: Apr 2004
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From: Newark DE
Ants dislike water and heat.
Leave your windows off and tops off on a sunny day. Ants leave behind a scent that they use for 'directions'. Sweep where you park your car everyday to disturb the scent trail. If you think about it, ants only access to your car where the tires meet the ground. Because ants live in and like social structure any prolonged disturbance will cause the colony to move.
Leave your windows off and tops off on a sunny day. Ants leave behind a scent that they use for 'directions'. Sweep where you park your car everyday to disturb the scent trail. If you think about it, ants only access to your car where the tires meet the ground. Because ants live in and like social structure any prolonged disturbance will cause the colony to move.
I had a majotr ant problem here at the house for a while and nothing we did would get rid of them.
I finally found their nest. actually, found 3 or 4 separate nests with the main Queen ant from each nest and all their eggs.
Guess where it was........... in the hottub that broke a couple years back and is still on my back deck. The hottub still had a few inches of water in the bottom and the cover on it creating a very warm, very wet and humid environment for them to thrive in. They made themselves at home real well in there
A couple applications of commercial ant killer took care of that problem and they haven't been back since.
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From: Newark DE
justaguy
getting rid of the ants in the car is not going to be fun or easy I hate to say.
with the experience I've had with ants you probably have one of two problems here:
1. there is SOMETHING in the car attracting them as a food source. You said the car was parked for a while and that could easily mean there was a mice nest in there and perhaps one died and the ants are feeding off it. When I bought my '78 it had sat for a few years and I found three different mice nests throughout the car.
Find the source of the food the ants are going for and you will get rid of the ants.
2. the ants may have set up a nest in the car. If that's the case you have a bigger problem because unless you find the nest you will never get rid of them. it could be anywhere - under the carpet, inside a seat, under the dash, under a piece of interior molding, in the frame, anywhere.
if there is an actual nest in the car you need to kill the entire nest, including the Queen ant and all of the eggs. You kill the queen and the eggs and the worker ants will go elsewhere.
getting rid of the ants in the car is not going to be fun or easy I hate to say.
with the experience I've had with ants you probably have one of two problems here:
1. there is SOMETHING in the car attracting them as a food source. You said the car was parked for a while and that could easily mean there was a mice nest in there and perhaps one died and the ants are feeding off it. When I bought my '78 it had sat for a few years and I found three different mice nests throughout the car.
Find the source of the food the ants are going for and you will get rid of the ants.
2. the ants may have set up a nest in the car. If that's the case you have a bigger problem because unless you find the nest you will never get rid of them. it could be anywhere - under the carpet, inside a seat, under the dash, under a piece of interior molding, in the frame, anywhere.
if there is an actual nest in the car you need to kill the entire nest, including the Queen ant and all of the eggs. You kill the queen and the eggs and the worker ants will go elsewhere.
Drifting
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From: New York
Diatomaceous Earth, sprinkle some of that around and its like coating them w/ fine glass, cuts them up, they dehydrate and die off. Then you can vacuum it up, its non toxic.
EDIT:
This is what I made to blast the bugs w/ in larger areas, and the yard, it works great, we have small dogs to protect and not poison, they can walk thru it and its not harmfull. It kills fleas, ants, ect... . It does build a large cloud outdoors doing a yard, thats one drawback, but less if the blower speed can be slowed down, still working on that solution. For small areas put some in a salt shaker or the like and sprinkle it around, when the ants walk thru it their as good as dead.
The stuff is a bit cakey so you have to tap the container periodically if you make one of these.
EDIT:
This is what I made to blast the bugs w/ in larger areas, and the yard, it works great, we have small dogs to protect and not poison, they can walk thru it and its not harmfull. It kills fleas, ants, ect... . It does build a large cloud outdoors doing a yard, thats one drawback, but less if the blower speed can be slowed down, still working on that solution. For small areas put some in a salt shaker or the like and sprinkle it around, when the ants walk thru it their as good as dead.
The stuff is a bit cakey so you have to tap the container periodically if you make one of these.
Last edited by jds68stang; Jul 3, 2008 at 04:22 PM.
Melting Slicks
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From: Space Coast Gator Territory
This stuff works great and the small bottle only costs $1.98. I use it regularly here in FL and boric acid on aunt hills makes fast work of them. The boric acid is sold at Dollar Stores for guess how much, yup a buck! It is sold as ant and roach killer in yellow plastic squeeze bottles.
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From: Beecher Illinois
Lay a potato chip on the floor and vacuum it up as they come out. Got rid of them in my house like that, didn't want to spray any poisons.
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From: Little Rock AR
This stuff works great and the small bottle only costs $1.98. I use it regularly here in FL and boric acid on aunt hills makes fast work of them. The boric acid is sold at Dollar Stores for guess how much, yup a buck! It is sold as ant and roach killer in yellow plastic squeeze bottles.
-Mark.
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Diatomaceous Earth, sprinkle some of that around and its like coating them w/ fine glass, cuts them up, they dehydrate and die off. Then you can vacuum it up, its non toxic.
EDIT:
This is what I made to blast the bugs w/ in larger areas, and the yard, it works great, we have small dogs to protect and not poison, they can walk thru it and its not harmfull. It kills fleas, ants, ect... . It does build a large cloud outdoors doing a yard, thats one drawback, but less if the blower speed can be slowed down, still working on that solution. For small areas put some in a salt shaker or the like and sprinkle it around, when the ants walk thru it their as good as dead.
The stuff is a bit cakey so you have to tap the container periodically if you make one of these.
EDIT:
This is what I made to blast the bugs w/ in larger areas, and the yard, it works great, we have small dogs to protect and not poison, they can walk thru it and its not harmfull. It kills fleas, ants, ect... . It does build a large cloud outdoors doing a yard, thats one drawback, but less if the blower speed can be slowed down, still working on that solution. For small areas put some in a salt shaker or the like and sprinkle it around, when the ants walk thru it their as good as dead.
The stuff is a bit cakey so you have to tap the container periodically if you make one of these.
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