First rats, now ants...........

[selamlar]

You are best not to interfere with them really. They lay scent trails to follow, so picking them up and moving them around will just result in an ant with a over its head, and a feeling of being the chosen one of god. The last thing you want is an ant with a Messiah complex. Imagine how difficult the fuckers are going to be if they come back to life every three days. Also, tiny crosses are hard to find.

 

[Dillinger4]

Why can't we all just get along? You are all fascists.

 

[selamlar]

Little bastards come over here, take my sugar, etc etc

Hanging is too good for them.

 

[Vintage Paw]

You are best not to interfere with them really. They lay scent trails to follow, so picking them up and moving them around will just result in an ant with a over its head, and a feeling of being the chosen one of god. The last thing you want is an ant with a Messiah complex. Imagine how difficult the fuckers are going to be if they come back to life every three days. Also, tiny crosses are hard to find.

This is probably the best post in the world, ever.

 

[mr steev]

Well he would say that, wouldn't he. (reducto ad hominem/Mandy Rice-Davies alert).

Bloke is drumming up business for himself and doesn't want you using over-the-counter stuff. It works.

I know what you're saying but I don't think it was like that.He said powder or boiling water are better. He gave us some free bottles of the poison that he'd used incase the problem returned, thankfully it didn't. It's not like pest control are likely to get loads of repeat business is it (if they do their job right anyway)

I'm not disputing that it works btw, just that in some cases it can make the problem worse (a lot worse!)

 

[Vintage Paw]

So do you think I can pour boiling water in their nest? It's in a little gap in the floor, kind of under the skirting. There's not likely to be any wiring there, is there? Will it dry out itself? It won't cause any damage or anything, surely?

 

[moomoo]

Mine are back. They're in the living room now. Behind the sofa.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Mine are back. They're in the living room now. Behind the sofa.

Oh no!

I fucking hate ants

 

[geminisnake]

You are best not to interfere with them really. They lay scent trails to follow, so picking them up and moving them around will just result in an ant with a over its head, and a feeling of being the chosen one of god. The last thing you want is an ant with a Messiah complex. Imagine how difficult the fuckers are going to be if they come back to life every three days. Also, tiny crosses are hard to find.

Ace post!!

My gran used some powder from the likes of B&Q when she had ants moomoo. You have to put it where they walk. I remember that.

 

[hiccup]

So do you think I can pour boiling water in their nest? It's in a little gap in the floor, kind of under the skirting. There's not likely to be any wiring there, is there? Will it dry out itself? It won't cause any damage or anything, surely?

I'm no expert, but I think the kettle of boiling water approach is more of an outside sort of thing.

 

[Vintage Paw]

I'm no expert, but I think the kettle of boiling water approach is more of an outside sort of thing.

Hmmm, but like, if you spill boiling water at home, like in the kitchen or something, it doesn't make your house fall down ...


... you can see I'm trying to justify it here can't you

 

[pogofish]

Douse the place with petrol or parafin. Works a treat.

And yes, I have lived where they had to do this & lived to tell the tale.

 

[Passdout]

On the plus side though, at least your pests are getting smaller

 

[hiccup]

Hmmm, but like, if you spill boiling water at home, like in the kitchen or something, it doesn't make your house fall down ...


... you can see I'm trying to justify it here can't you

Yeah, I mean, I'm sure nothing too awful would happen. Pouring whole kettles down the skirting just seems a bit...I dunno. Wrong.

 

[Vintage Paw]

Hmm, just how much boiling water do you think I'd need.

I did once kill a spider with turps.

 

[poster342002]

What sort of ants are these? Black or red "garden ants" or the tiny brown "pharoah's ants"? The latter are notoriously difficult to get rid of for any length of time.

 

[Pingu]

I'm no expert, but I think the kettle of boiling water approach is more of an outside sort of thing.

as sadly is the pingu patented ant removal tequnique.

100% effective but REALLY* only for use in the outdoors


1) find nest
2) dig down a couple of feet
3) empty about 1 litre of unleaded into hole
4) leave for about 15-20 mins
5) strike match
6) genie the match box into the hole from a safe distance


*as in do not do this indoors... ever (unless you ctually do want to burn the house down in which case...)

 

[selamlar]

as sadly is the pingu patented ant removal tequnique.

100% effective but REALLY* only for use in the outdoors


1) find nest
2) dig down a couple of feet
3) empty about 1 litre of unleaded into hole
4) leave for about 15-20 mins
5) strike match
6) genie the match box into the hole from a safe distance


*as in do not do this indoors... ever (unless you ctually do want to burn the house down in which case...)

I did that with a wasp nest once. Apart from it was rather more than a litre of unleaded, and I neglected to check that there wasn't another hole out of the nest, for example one running under the highly flammable hedge.

 

[Pingu]

from experimentation have found that a litre produces just the right amount of "woomph" and a good ant destroying bbqette for about 5-10 mins.

any more and you et a better woomph but it seems to consume too much of the unleaded in the process and you dont get the bbq effect.


we had a fuck load of ants nests in the garden a few years back and now we dont have any

 

[Mrs Magpie]

is that because you now have no garden left?

 

[Y_I_Otter]

Borax (the laundry additive) and sugar in equal quantities bound with a bit of corn syrup did the job when we had them coming into the house via the back door. We just put it in the lid of an ice cream container on the doorstep and that was the end of it. They must have taken it back to the colony because that was three years ago and we haven't had one in the house since. There might be an issue if pets have access to it though; it's not non-toxic.

 

[Pingu]

is that because you now have no garden left?

tbh it wasnt too bad, ok we had some scorched bits but the grass grew back really quickly

 

[berniedicters]

Its like the French Revolution in a tube.

I grinned lots.

The last thing you want is an ant with a Messiah complex. Imagine how difficult the fuckers are going to be if they come back to life every three days. Also, tiny crosses are hard to find.

I grinned so much my chin fell off!

as sadly is the pingu patented ant removal tequnique.

100% effective but REALLY* only for use in the outdoors


1) find nest
2) dig down a couple of feet
3) empty about 1 litre of unleaded into hole
4) leave for about 15-20 mins
5) strike match
6) genie the match box into the hole from a safe distance


*as in do not do this indoors... ever (unless you ctually do want to burn the house down in which case...)

This, I think. We have at least five ants' nests in the garden, of varying persuasions (red AND black - they have wars, it's like a giant outdoor game of Diplomacy). Last summer we were outside having a barbeque and it suddenly became swarming day - in minutes, great swathes of the lawn and patio became shimmering seas of flying ants' wings. Fairly horrible. Fortunately, I had a handy spray can of something inflammable and a lighter, so I did a bit of a mini-holocaust in the near vicinity. For all the good it did.

I have that Nippon stuff, but we have so many nests of such huge size that I just don't think we've made a dent in it. I may have to try the unleaded option.

we had a fuck load of ants nests in the garden a few years back and now we dont have any

WANT!

(the absence of ants, not Pingu's erstwhile ant population)

 

[spanglechick]

i was staying at my sister's last week and they have an ant plague in their living room and d/stairs bathroom. is it something about the midlands at the moment?

 

[Vintage Paw]

What sort of ants are these? Black or red "garden ants" or the tiny brown "pharoah's ants"? The latter are notoriously difficult to get rid of for any length of time.

They are black ants, I think. What are these pharoah's ants you speak of?

 

[poster342002]

What are these pharoah's ants you speak of?

They're dreadful. Tiny and they get everywhere (you think twice in the end before opening your breadbin lest they erupt forth). Once you've got them, you have to repeatedly get them treated to keep them down.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharaoh_ant

 

[Pingu]

I grinned lots.


I grinned so much my chin fell off!


This, I think. We have at least five ants' nests in the garden, of varying persuasions (red AND black - they have wars, it's like a giant outdoor game of Diplomacy). Last summer we were outside having a barbeque and it suddenly became swarming day - in minutes, great swathes of the lawn and patio became shimmering seas of flying ants' wings. Fairly horrible. Fortunately, I had a handy spray can of something inflammable and a lighter, so I did a bit of a mini-holocaust in the near vicinity. For all the good it did.

I have that Nippon stuff, but we have so many nests of such huge size that I just don't think we've made a dent in it. I may have to try the unleaded option.


WANT!

(the absence of ants, not Pingu's erstwhile ant population)

the trick IME is to dig down until you find the first lot of eggs.