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Since everyone is a guru, How about the best way to get rid of sugar ants. They seem to go for any soda can regardless of the five seconds it has been there. And they seem to love my espresso. Is nothing sacred? I thought to wipe out their scent trails with Bleach, to no avail. So does anyone have a better idea? Short of the Orkin Man...
Billyman
03-05-2003, 03:07 AM
You can find what you need in your local grocery or hardware store. (http://www.terro.com/)
You'll more than likely find the stuff in the box. It has these little square tabs of cardboard. You'll place the square tab where ever you'd like (out of reach of pets) and put a few drops of the poison on it. In time, they will come. They'll run back and forth in there little marching lines until all the poison has been consumed. DO NOT disturb them. They are taking the poison back home, it'll kill the queen and everyone else. I guarantee it.
You rock. Enough said. Thanks.
Billyman
05-12-2003, 03:32 AM
Still no response.
Did you try it? Are you happy with the results? Have you been abducted by aliens?
Never a response from me.
An unresponsive woman?
nuuh....
BTW:
for perminant ant removal I recommend the following
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I respond to stimuli, which Billy failed to provide. I love you anyway Billy.
Originally posted by Mae
I respond to stimuli...*snip
I'm not touching that.
....literally
Billyman
05-13-2003, 11:03 PM
YOU WOULDN'T LET ME TOUCH IT! :mad:
sauron
05-14-2003, 04:19 PM
Originally posted by Mae
I respond to stimuli, which Billy failed to provide. I love you anyway Billy.
I'm a manwhore, so I'll happily provide any stimuli you'd prefer...
Yeah, that's cheesy.
- d.
jules
05-14-2003, 04:53 PM
eat them. lemony.
from sugar ants to mae's pants in 10 posts
we must be slipping
Billyman
05-14-2003, 09:53 PM
She started it. :p
Yes I did. Still no real offers and one flat refusal. Thanks, Mac.
Escape Artist
05-18-2003, 12:42 AM
ha ha.
UnsungHeroine
05-27-2003, 02:04 PM
We have ants here, too, other kind than sugar ants, but they do seem to like booze. Their favorite is Irish cream (mine, too). My man read up on them and found that they are not supposed to like cinnamon. So we trails cinnamon along their preferred ingresses, and they don't like it. There are fewer of them than there were, but the cinnamon trails is ugly.
P.S. Stop drinking pop. It is bad for your complexion. This is your aunt speaking.
Uberwonder
06-15-2003, 04:14 PM
Boric acid. Sprinkle the powder on their trails. It is perfectly safe for humans and pets (it's an eye wash for people) but eats holes in the waxy coating on their exoskeleton and they dehydrate and die. They will carry it back to their nest where it eventually decimates their population.
Good for roaches too.
To close this thread, I used nothing. They went away. Recently at my new residence they invaded. I used Terro. They were gone inside of 24 huors. The package says to leave the bait for a while, I will but they have not been back since.
SimpleSimon
06-16-2003, 06:16 PM
Mae, looks to me like they are pursuing YOU. Never had any ants in the house before you came, have not seen any since you moved on.
Mudflap
06-16-2003, 09:05 PM
I haven't seen any cockroaches at my new place, but I found a big 'un half dead on the kitchen counter this morning.
The fucker was 3 inches long. If I see anymore, I'm gonna torch this place.
SimpleSimon
06-17-2003, 12:16 AM
Thats a wood roach, Mudflap, they live in the pine needle duff outside. Occasionally come inside where they die pretty quickly. No problem.
Icky icky ants. Icky icky roaches. Found one of those wood roaches the other day, ewwwwwwwwwwwww. And Simon? Just an observation, But I seem to be the only one able to make them go away, could be wrong though. :-)
no one mentioned sevin dust:
its safe around pet food and water, washes up with water, and the ants WILL NOT cross it. It wipe out the mound, it just makes them go away. And it works on most insects.
As for giant roaches, try a light vinegrette mmmMmmmm...thin and crispy :p
Once you have roaches no amount of cleaing will get rid of them.
my ex and I live din a sorry little trailer that we buste dour butts to clean up and we kept it very very very clean. The roaches where there when we moved in and they flourished no matter what we did. Then we had the exterminator start a monthly regiment. Within 4 months there where no roaches anywhere.
Fleas on the other hand where a different story. As long as animals came and went we had them. Yes, the cleaning and poison killed them but they still marched indoors with every opportunity. Treating the animals was pointless to.
Neat trick: take something flat and white (a plate or sheet) and lay it in th eyard or on your carpet. if there's a hopping bug around it'll be on that white surface in a few minutes. Add a thin layer of cooking oil to the plate in on your carpet and it'll trap the fleas that jump on it.
UnsungHeroine
06-23-2003, 11:11 AM
....and lay it in th eyard or on your carpet.
eyard! Is that a virtual yard? I like it.
SimpleSimon
06-23-2003, 01:19 PM
Originally posted by UnsungHeroine
eyard! Is that a virtual yard? I like it.
That would be e-yard.
Mac has twitches.
I lost my thumb in the `nam and the gubn't gav eme this surplus one
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