Help. I have ants in...
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| Sun, 05-18-2003 - 12:40pm |
the kitchen & bedroom. We are on the top floor(23) and they come in through he window , They are black and ugly. What can I spray, to keep them away??
Summer in the City. Ugh.
Hope

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We do normally have an ongoing ant problem from May through the summer. But, seriously, i think they have all been washed away for the time being. Of course, mosquitoes are supposed to be horrific this year. We had huge downpours of rain again this weekend; that is 3 or 4 weekends now that we have had tremendous rainfall, and the ground was completely soaked early on. Here I just use an ant spray, and track them back to their source as best I can. It's not so hard to get rid of them temporarily! It's just a battle of wills as to who can keep on keeping on longer: us or the ants...and they have no other focus in their little lives, you know?? LOL Good luck to you. Seren
A street fair!!!!! Is it like a crafters market or a garage sale or a real fair? I'd enjy the first two but not the last (which is why I'm at home babysitting while the family is at the fair :))
HAGD - hope the cleanup with your DF went well.
JJ
I like Pab's suggestion too, baits always work best for me. Try the Tarro, Hope.
And Seren, yes, ants are dedicated little creatures, with one purpose in life -- to serve the queen. They will travel amazing distances to take food back to her. There was a high-rise here (downtown) that had a persistent ant problem, and they finally traced their trail to the Varsity, which is over a mile away. I've done quite a lot of research on ants, as I do NOT like them at all, especially the fire ants, as I talked about the other day. Grrrrr...
I noticed this morning that you were still getting rain. It has slacked off some here, but looks like your rain is slowly making its way over here. Stay dry.....BB
I too had some stuff that you put on a little piece of cardboard the ants came from near and far there had to have been millions of them did they die? Who knows...we were bothered by crickets one year so I took the barn spray(what they use for flies in the milk barns) and sprayed up under the siding on the house. This was in an older 2 story house we lived in. Within an hour or so there were creepy crawlers falling out from under there that it grossed me out. I did that about 3 times that summer and didn't have crickets in the house or spiders.....lol.....the ants though I think you have to get the nest.... if you can stand it here goes... http://www.epestsupply.com/ants.htm good luck. Janet
Good luck!
If they are now so bold as to invite their buddies over to your house then Sprinkel some Boric Acid around where they are setting up house keeping and waa..laaa... ya got yourself a pile of dead ants. I have two dogs and I was kind of leary to use it around them but they are okay with it and haven't died yet. My vet told me that it is a repelant too? hummmm????...
I hate ants with a passion... They can play in my yard that's cool but to start coming into my house is when I go nuts... We just thank God that they are not fire ants!
Aloha,
Leilani
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