The World of Ants

[wannabe]

can i just put the baby powder on the countertops in the crevice next to the cupboards? don't worry i won't sprinkle it all over the counters

Just find the holes where they come in. Just follow the trails, and it should be easy to find. A couple puffs into the hole should do the trick. If you make a mess just sweep the excess toward the crack or the hole. It works, and it smells a whole lot better than raid.

When you find out that I'm right, I'm exepcting an extra helping of dessert.

 

[brichter]

can i just put the baby powder on the countertops in the crevice next to the cupboards? don't worry i won't sprinkle it all over the counters


imma smoke

and get the baby powder

fuckers, here i come

I'm gonna try that too.
But I think I need to have a shot of single malt or a Guinness to make it work right.

 

[Shotline]

Ants find food and water by the simple means of just randomly walking around. They leave a Pheramone trail behind them and when they find food they take some back to the nest following the trail they laid down (thus making the sent twice as strong). As more ants encounter the trail they lay down their own pheramones thus making the sent even stronger. The stronger the sent the more ants that will follow the trail.

So, when you see the odd ant wandering around your walls, kill it. If you see two or three ants following the same trail, kill them and disrupt the sent trail somehow. If you encounter a full blown ant army trail, break out the raid and spray at the source of their entry into your house.

 

[V4]

a can of Red Bull kills ants too....

 

[wannabe]

a can of Red Bull kills ants too....

I was hoping that you would say something like this:


In the Village of Fresno, we found that Yak urine was really good for killing ants.....Yes, it is.

 

[Sane_Man]

After years of battling wit's with The Ant, and losing, I found the easy solution in getting rid of them.

Go buy a box of Grant's Ant Bait traps. When you see a few scout ant's following each other, or a large of them, put down a Bait Trap. They will call all of their friend's who will carry the bait back to their nest. In a few days they will all die.

It's kind of disgusting to watch a huge swarm of ant's crawling around the tub for two days, but the more ants that show up, the quicker the colony will die.

 

[V4]

I was hoping that you would say something like this:


In the Village of Fresno, we found that Yak urine was really good for killing ants.....Yes, it is.

btw, watching an army of red and black ants go at it is awesome to see in real life.....

 

[brichter]

btw, watching an army of red and black ants go at it is awesome to see in real life.....

Yeah, they pull each others' bodies apart.

 

[Triple Seven]

 

[goose]

Actually, the answer is baby powerder. I don't know how or why it works. I just know that it does. Sprinkle some baby powder in all the cracks and crevices where ants can enter your home (or your room.) I used to have an ant problem until I did this recently.

I think I read somewheres once upon a time it kills them because it gets into the cracks between and up under the chiton (hard outer shell) and dehydrates them.

:|

I don't like ants either but they really got to be in my way for me to bother to kill them. When I was a kid, my moms paid me a bounty to kill bananna slugs and gophers in the yard and garden. Never got a gopher but found slugs a-plenty. She was horrified to discover I was dispatching then with a .22 cal. Sheridan air rifle rather than the "humane" method she preffered of pouring salt on them so they could writhe in agony for hours. I'm 38 now and I still don't understand adults logic most of the time.

 

[pSykopSoMaTiK]

Afterwards, you should of knocked on your neighbor's door, pad in hand and asked "Does this belong to you? it's attracting ants, see?"

Dude, no way am I going to touch it. I hosed off the ants and took a branch to get the thing back into her bin!!!!

 

[Ducky_Fresh]

I want to watch that episode of MacGuyver, where the killer red ants in like Argentina swarm. It was so awesome!

Anyone else remember it!?

 

[sbiker73]

I use windex to kill ants if I find a trail of them. it works on the spot, it evaporates entirely over a short period of time and does not leave a nasty RAID residue. My cats are retarted so i cant randomly spray chemicals around the house.

 

[F4iChic]

I've tried windex

I've tried the ant bait thingies

I've tried everything

last night I did the baby powder around the shower

guess what


no fookin ants this morning, little bastids

thanks Aris - more pie for you

 

[wannabe]

I've tried windex

I've tried the ant bait thingies

I've tried everything

last night I did the baby powder around the shower

guess what


no fookin ants this morning, little bastids

thanks Aris - more pie for you

I love it when I'm right.

 

[auntiebling]

I want to watch that episode of MacGuyver, where the killer red ants in like Argentina swarm. It was so awesome!

Anyone else remember it!?

that one was rad

welding with quarters and a car battery with a bonus home made flame thrower utilizing the giant gasoline resevoir that is almost emppy <dramatic music> duh duh duuuuuuh</dramatic music>

 

[F4iChic]

I love it when I'm right.

one good turn deserves another

which reminds me, I have to take that damned steamer back

 

[cheezy]

But nobody has been able to explain why ants do suicide missions to the freezer. I wanna know. Oh, and i'll try the baby powder as well. As soon as I get some. Baby powder that is...

 

[F4iChic]

don't put baby powder in the freezer


i dunno why the stoopid fookers want in the freezer tho

 

[Waterboy]

We had such a problem that we finally called pest control. Now we don't have any more ants. But before that, they were everywhere all the time, whether we left some food on the counter or not. We knew we had to do something when they were seen carrying the cat away.