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I just hit snooze for almost 3 hours.
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I'm pretty sure my phone only lets me hit snooze three times off a single alarm
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Depends where they are coming from.
Not sure what the final solution for my dad was, but we dumped boiling water into the nests, and apparently they also don't like the smell of lilac (although I'd check that again). And just clogg up the entry point with PU foam or something similar.
Not sure what the final solution for my dad was, but we dumped boiling water into the nests, and apparently they also don't like the smell of lilac (although I'd check that again). And just clogg up the entry point with PU foam or something similar.
We use borax. Depending upon what kind of food your ants are seeking (sweet or savory) mix it with catfood, or peanut butter or sugar water and put the mix into an easily accessible dish that is out of reach from pets and let them feast and carry the borax back to their nest. It will kill them. Our ants like cat food so we use that and put to dish under the rack in our dish drain and in difficult to access place down near where we feed the cats.
I've found the Bonide brand ant killers to be very effective.
https://www.bonide.com/products/home-pest-control/view/370/termite-and-carpenter-ant-killer-aerosol
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Clean them up, use soap to get rid of the trails, and spray orange oil where they are coming from.
*sigh* no ants in the pants joke?
In my experience ants come if they find free food available, so you'd better find out what's drawing them.
When I was a tot there used to be a very large tree just in front of our flat window, and they used to come down from their nest in/under the tree, cross the cement-paved parking lot, climb up one of the massive columns, and dig a hole under the frame of the window IIRC and steal away the crumbs that a three-year-old Tak would spray when eating. So the solution was to a) give the blasted insects some good old-fashioned over-the-counter chemical warfare and b) get a vacuum cleaner and teach the tot in question how not to spray crumbs onto the carpet because the vacuum cleaner simply cannot get past the Velcro-like adherence of crumbs to said carpet.
In my experience ants come if they find free food available, so you'd better find out what's drawing them.
When I was a tot there used to be a very large tree just in front of our flat window, and they used to come down from their nest in/under the tree, cross the cement-paved parking lot, climb up one of the massive columns, and dig a hole under the frame of the window IIRC and steal away the crumbs that a three-year-old Tak would spray when eating. So the solution was to a) give the blasted insects some good old-fashioned over-the-counter chemical warfare and b) get a vacuum cleaner and teach the tot in question how not to spray crumbs onto the carpet because the vacuum cleaner simply cannot get past the Velcro-like adherence of crumbs to said carpet.
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Borax for ants if no pets or kids. Useful for other stuff too. Boxelder bugs are a pain in the butt as are asian lady beetles, and some borax sprinkled on door frames and window sills usually keeps a lot of those dead instead of buzzing around in my parents' place(the beetles are really thick after soybeans get harvested).
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Hobbsyoyo is a southern Californian now...our ants come in looking for water, primarily.
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Ok so lots of suggestions to use borax. I was told by a science teacher to put out baker's yeast flakes as they take that back to their nest where it infests and kills them all. Anyone know the efficacy of that?
I'm not really sure where they're coming from. I'm on the fourth floor and they don't seem to be coming in through windows or the door. They appear on my kitchen island and my theory is that they're getting in through the shoddy floorboards. I think they might have a nest between the third and fourth floor and are getting in through the interface between the kitchen island and the floor.
I put out a small container of honey + water + borax, let's see if that kills them. Do they carry borax flakes or solution back to the nest? Or does it kill them on contact?
I'm not really sure where they're coming from. I'm on the fourth floor and they don't seem to be coming in through windows or the door. They appear on my kitchen island and my theory is that they're getting in through the shoddy floorboards. I think they might have a nest between the third and fourth floor and are getting in through the interface between the kitchen island and the floor.
I put out a small container of honey + water + borax, let's see if that kills them. Do they carry borax flakes or solution back to the nest? Or does it kill them on contact?
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