might not be a good idea for inside but outside a blowtorch works wonders you call kill the nest with it

Burns house to the ground

Keeps one handy

There is a definite Animal Kingdom feel to the forum today

I've been here with the ant thing... 

 

I lost the plot a few years ago...  it resulted in me pouring kettles of boiling water over my lawn.

 

All I did was drive the buggers into the house.

 

So... in the end,  I used an ant trap (with ant bait) for those in the house...   they carry the bait back to the queen...  then the whole colony dies within 48 hours.

 

And I left those in the garden alone.     Cos if you kill of your territorial ant army..    you just get more ants from a neighbouring territory.

 

 

I actually love ants now..     I learned a lot that year.       So long as they don't come in the house we get on fine.

 

If the cross the threshold (And I have to be sure they are coming in of their own accord & its not the odd one that has hitched a lift indoors on one of us) then its time to get the ant bait out again.

 

 

 

 

Ant powder can actually just make the queen produce more offspring.... increasing the colony size

When I had them trooping up from the bottom of the garden, up the steps and into my house , I found a nice line of bleach along the top step stopped them in their tracks.

I had the ant traps last year.. Little buggers did not go near them

 

The whole street is plagued by them here. Strangely the back garden ones never come near the house 

you can buy the tubes of the ant bait..    I dotted blobs of the bait around the trap as well..  

 

I can remeber my mum having a fit if we dropped any sweets near the back door step when we was a kid  everywhere was covered in white powder  must admit i do the boiling water

 

 

I use ant trap James, they work a treat.... 

 

Pmsl @ your assignment 

No sign of the flying ants yet.   <>

 

I hate them 

I think they only last a day or 2. Mutating little so and so's. 

 

Dame 

 

2 days too long 

 

Ev  

Ahh yes the flying blighter's I shall be on Def Con 1.. Weapons ready...

How did I miss this thread?

 

When we first moved in to our house, pretty much the whole street moved in at the same time, sounds odd but we did.  Anyway, the next summer it looked like the whole street had a massive cocaine problem, ant powder EVERYWHERE.  8 years later, it gets less and less every summer.

We had a major invasion of ants in my OH's parents' house when we were staying there a couple of years ago. We used 3 ant traps and they all went within 24 hours.

We get an invasion every year.  After traps and spray etc they disappear for that year, but return the next, less of them, but they return. 

So long as you get them early and dissuade any new queens from nesting it's OK. This is my 3rd consecutive year of attack & counter attack. The good weather has brought them out in search of food a bit earlier.

 

I am the only one who uses the powder. I put the ant traps down right in their path and they just walked round them. So I put the Nippon gel on bits of card. they ignored it. Someone tipped them off

It was me, I sent them along your way