Gawd D little black ants....Requesting the Planet's divine wisdom.
 

I bought a house this last fall and this is my first spring in it. Apparently it has started to be plagued with little black ants. I've tried the terro liquid baits and some basic home perimeter sprays, and they work for about a couple of days, but they still keep coming. Anyone here have any other ideas on how I can kill/get rid of the little ****ers?! :cuss:

Antifreeze, duh.

kill them with fire

http://socialmediarage.com/wp-conten...with-fire.jpeg

ROFLROFLROFL

Edit: I guess I should specify that I have young kids and a cat, not to mention Sofa King I'd like to still be able to live in my house. :clap:

ant eater.

That's racist!

The only surefire cure is to put rattlesnakes into your crawl space.

I tend to ignore them and they go away.

set up a picnic site in the neighbors lawn.

Don't use the terro liquid baits. They've proven to be ineffective in my experience.

Use the actual terro liquid. Put it on aluminum foil in several spots. If you get ants trapped in it or that die in it (which is what happens with the baits in my experience), then replace that piece of foil. I think the reason the traps fail is that ants eventually die in it or get trapped in it, and this dissuades the other ants from taking the liquid.

http://www.jenspends.com/wp-content/...9/08/Terro.jpg

Plant a couple of Peony bushes at least 10 feet away from your house. Ants make the Peonies thrive. This may not eliminate the little buggers, but it should keep them away from the house.

Get bigger ants to take those smaller ants out of the equation.

i always set homemade traps and they work well

can of coke ... drink 3/4 of it and then set it down somewhere near where the ants are going. They are attracted by the sugar and eat until they drown.

safe for everyone

you will have a couple hundred ants in there after a couple of days. Just replace it will another can. :)


for extra powered results add more sugar into the coke can(diet or sugar free coke doesn't work)

This has worked well for us too.

ROFL

ROFL
*KABOOM!*

Would that be Terro - ist?

:D

ROFL

Get one of these.

http://www.vibrationdata.com/Resources/anteater1.jpg

You need ant defenses, Mr. talastan. Here's a plan that has proven successful for centuries.

1. Acquire shovel.
2. Acquire tiny, little logs.
4. Acquire tiny, little crocodiles.
5. Dig moat with shovel.
6. Stock moat with crocodiles.
7. Build wall with logs.

EDIT: Not sure what happened to "3.". Probably lost knowledge over centuries.

FAX

Google Image search for "anteater". Some good stuff. LMAO

There is a product called "Orange Guard" that is safe for pets and kids that kills ants on contact, and it smells nice like oranges. I have been using it lately and it is great. Also windex with vinegar kills them on contact and scares them away for awhile.

REPOST!

Farm 'em

Monkey with a stick.

http://naturalhygienesociety.org/chimp1.jpg

Or, this would work.

1. Acquire tiny, little logs.
2. Acquire tiny, little nails.
3. Build tiny, little crucifix.
4. Place crucifix near ant path.
5. Capture ant.
6. Affix ant to crucifix.

FAX

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Yeah, anything with ammonia will kill the little bastards on contact.

Another thing you might want to try is to create a small compost pile in some corner of your backyard (closer to the house would expedite the process). The ants will just go to the pile and will probably leave your house alone.

The liquid bait traps work wonders for those ants at our house.

I've found the trick to be to get a swarm of them at them though....set out something they will go for...can of partially drank pop, a honey bun, anything like that, and wait for them to find it and let the colony know so that is is covered in the little bastards. Then, add the terro liquid bait and remove the other item.

They already have the scent trail for the ants to keep coming back to it there, and when all that is there is that bait, they will gorge themselves and pack the poison back to the nest. Sure, some die inside, but there is a lot of that stuff carried back to the nest and I've never seen them last more than 1 day once I hit a bit line of them.

If I put it out without the big swarm, it seems like they do get shy of the thing, but when they are coming there looking for specifc food it tears the next a new one.

I've never had an ant problem, so I apologize for the naivity.

It seems to me that the solutions have all been about killing a bunch of already problematic ants. What could the OP do the prevent the ants from returning/ever appearing?

Yeup.

Terro liquid is some seriously brutal stuff. We had some ants in our garage and didn't know where they came from. I put a little square of the terro liquid across where they traveled and went on my merry way.

A few weeks later I was moving some stuff around in my basement so I could put shelves in. Low and behold I find this gigantic mass of dead ants. Evidently they carried the liquied back to wherever they were coming from, stirred them out of it and thousands of the little bastards died in my basement after that poison set in.

Took some pretty serious satisfaction in that carnage.

I'm surprised the Terro didn't work. I've had 100% success with it. I prefer the liquid.

1. I create long, regtangular feeding troughs (3" by 1/2") with a pieces of cardboard. (Ants sometimes seem annoyed by foil.)

2. Trap placement is very important. Make sure the ants find the traps and then keep the traps there for 5-7 days as it usually takes that long to kill the entire colony. Keep the liquid fresh every few days as it dries out and becomes solid. You can put a few drops around the trough to lead them there.

3. Do NOT use any poisons while using the traps. It disorients the ants and makes the traps much less effective.

4. Certain ants are more attracted to grease/fat (ex. some types of carpenter ants). If you fail to kill them off with the previous instructions; mix the Terro liquid with a small amount (15-20%) of hot bacon grease. Spread this out on the troughs and retry as listed above. Or you can use the grease mixed with boric acid.

Good luck.

Terro will go back to their source and wipe out the whole nest.

Generally that takes care of it. Occasionally a new one will find the way in (if you haven't in the meantime). In which case, another tiny cardboard square and a few drops of this stuff will create another little anty genocide.

So, Terro is de-facto pretty good shit? A + in the quality/cost ratio? Particularly in preventative considerations? Thanks.

tyler perry's when black aunts move in.

I wouldn't use it as a preventative because you don't know where the ants are moving and if they would ever stumble upon it. You can't set it outside the house, it's just a couple of drops of liquid that would dry up.

I use it once they show up. That will take care of that infestation and prevent any other ants from that colony from showing up. If another colony were to arrive, then you just lay it down again. You won't just go laying it around strategically (like I said, it would likely dry before they found it), you lay it where you see them and they dirty bomb their own colony for you.

It has no sort of deterrence value, it just kills them at their source. Less of a loud warning, more of an electric chair.

Yes, the stuff is cheap.

BTW, these work outdoors (same deal on the bacon grease if they don't work after 7 days):

http://www.biconet.com/crawlers/GIFs...doorAntbox.jpg

Thanks for all the advice....I'll keep trying the Terro. I think I need to keep the dead ants from the bait. That will probably help. Thanks again and I'll let you know what happens.

not sure how much time you have on your hands, but picking them off one by one with a straw and spit wads is pretty fun. You need to get a 12 pack of beer first.

This one just hit me, can't believe noone thought of this one..

http://thegiantnapkin.com/images/ants.jpg

magnifying glass in the shadows... works great.

Why can't we build a little, teeny, tiny ant robot using creativity, nano-technology, and teensy weensy parts, program the ant robot to go to the neighbor's house, and place the ant robot in first place in the ant follow-the-leader line?

FAX

:D

If you can find where they are entering the house, you can build a little talcum powder levee and they usually won't cross it.

Terro always worked for me in 2 or 3 days

I had an ant problem at my house for years, I'd spray and use traps and all that other bullshit with varying degrees of success. I eventually found out they were carpenter ants and they had been thriving on a bunch of the landscaping timbers in my yard, so I tore all of them out last year and haven't seen an ant since then.

Ordered Terro from amazon. Hope it works.

Coyote urine for some reason I can't understand.

New thread.

"How do you get a coyote to piss in a cup?" :D

buy it a beer?!?

you can make your own liquid ant killer. couple spoons of borax mixed with honey or anything sweet / sticky put in a jar with a small hole in the lid. Might not be a good idea to let the kiddies of Fido get at it.

You should get on your intercom and announce that "All Black Ants should leave the House immediately"

Sell the house and move along....

http://signup.orkin.com/orkin/res/pc...7-_-3312395220

Or:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3657/...41f93308_o.jpg

I have had this issue before and last year was horrible. I tried everything I could , Toro, Borax etc...even had a company come spray and still had ants.

Finally a friend of mine referred me to a guy who came out and sprayed and he sprayed in the house and an entire 20ft perimeter around the outside.

He said you have to lay a barrier down they cant cross. Think of it as a pesticide minefield or moat.

It worked right away the rest of the year was ant free.

The other company had just sprayed along the outside of the house around the foundation. That's not enough if you a large ant population which you probably do.

simply schmush them one by one.

http://killants.org/kill_ants_pics/g..._of_ants_a.jpg

http://i3.fc-img.com/CTV02/Comcast_C...if_290_210.jpg



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for you, i would also recommend

http://nopests.com/blog/wp-content/u...terminator.jpg

Cayenne pepper sprinkle it where you see them they leave on the first bus outta there

it's hard to watch that Billy the Exterminator show. i just hurts my head.

it's the way he dresses isn't it.... spikes on his shoulders, borderline mullet, cowboy hat...


weird..