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Is it just me, or are the ants a little over the top this year?

kinnip

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Feb 24, 2008
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First of all, let me point out that my home has become a flotilla of poisons. The outside is covered, smothered and whatever else in Sevin dust. The inside is thoroughly lubed with combat ant gel. There's so much of it I'm worried that I'm going to kill a cat, or get some noxious disease. Nevertheless, for two mornings running, I've had ants in my pants. Stop laughing, it's rude! I go to put on my workpants, and am no kidding bitten in a dozen places by teensy, eensy, really ouchy ants. I can't get rid of these buggers! I started with DE. That just gave them the impetus to branch out into new colonies. I'm adrift in ants. All of my animals have ant bites, except the lucky little devils in the brooders. One of my bucklings even has a couple on the underside of his tail-- OUCH! I'm beginning to wonder if it's really an alien invasion force. I gotta stop typing this now, I'm about to scratch my skin off just thinking about it.
 
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Sorry....but
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Hope you can get rid of them. What do you have in your pants??
 
Try mixing 1 cup of borax in 1 cup of simple syrup (sugar and water boiled together until the sugar dissolves completely). Mix until borax is completely dissolved. Then place in bottle caps or other small containers that are easily refilled and set in along an ant trail. The ants will come and take it back to the nest and it will slowly poison the whole colony.

To prevent ants from coming into certain areas you can sprinkle talcum powder or cinnamon as a barrier while wiping out the scent ant trails have by wiping surfaces down with vinegar or lemon juice.
 
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Sweet! I got nothing to lose, I'm trying it.

So I guess disrupting their scent trail with stompy ant death doesn't work?
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No wonder they're still here.
 
seems like every year there is a nest of ants near each room of our house.

we use the commercial stuff - exactly like the recipe above, only comes in a bottle.
 
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Yeah it's called Terro but I think this solution is stronger than the Terro because it took me forever to get rid of them until I mixed up my own.
 
OUCH!!!:/They have been quite bad here as well, though not to the point that ant poison wont keep them away.
 

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