Whats in YOUR Pants?
 

ACK HELP! I have newly acquired a fear of ants now that I've discovered I'm allergic to them and my new house is INFESTED.... and they are crawling in bed with us.... ew Ew EW EW EW EW EW
any tips on how to gte them out short of calling the bug guy?

ants in the pants
Kyttn

Having an outbreak of the ants here, too.... kitchen counter's loaded with 'em... been using an ant bait called "Terro II", but label says it could take up to 2 wks to get em all... I'll keep ya posted if it works...

7 mule team borax laundry powder stuff has always worked wonders here...crawlies hate it!

I prefer the good old fashion shoe.Though this may leave sand in your bed and is probably more aggrivating than the ants.As for what freaks me out I realy hate locusts.Those exosceleton freaks of nature should be cast down into the lungs hell where they can all burn and POP like corn while I giggle and grind my teeth.

Well ironing happens in the house and I fear that!

get ant traps then go out side and find the ant hills buy some cherry bombs and put then in the ant hills and blow them up heheheh thats fun now go to an gardening store and find a fertilizer that says it kills ants and grubs and spred it all over your lawn may take a week to kill them all but it works

In Europe they sell bait cans that you have to place over their streets. They get a little poisened food, carry it to their breed and feed it with it. After some days they die out. Works very well.

I got some of them with the sander but I dunno.... I do have several types of fireworks.....

if you can plant things outside, there is a bush that you can get that needs tha ants to survive. I'm not sure about the spelling but it's called a pienne bush. has a real big pretty flower. but it will take a year to bloom. but it works great.

kyttn use the fire works its fun and effective and if there getting into your pants the simple solution is don't wear pants and take pics. lots and lots of pics.

Or look for the nests and pour boiling water into.

find the nests and if they are in the ground away from the house pour petrol (gasoline) in the hole and remove the can well away from the area and strike a match and throw it on the petrol soaked ground. Dig down a bit after the initial flames have died down and that will allow air to get down further. I use this method to get rid of an agressive ant called a jackjumper that causes very bad alergic reactions and even death here. Mylate dad had to have an injection of adrenilin nearby as the anaphylatic reaction when bitten nearly killed him twice.

Borax powder that the ants carry back to there nest is very effective too but not nearly as much fun as burning the bastards LOL

A jack-jumper, Guts? Never heard of them, but glad you've kept them to the apple isle.

Ants tend to be meat or sugar eaters.

Ant traps, ie bowls with icecream sticks leading to them with either honey or bacon

or perhaps fried chicken skin in the bowl and touched to the stick can be successful.

They are chemical free because as soon as the bowl is well populated with

ants, a quick hit of boiling water and you have culled hundreds.

Repeat until population below problem levels.

Grumble is right on the gasoline(outside)but it's not to practical
in your bedroom.A buddy of mine was a lineman in upper New York state.He visited one summer(married my wifes best friend)and my mother-in-law was having trouble with wasps;outside her
back window.(under eaves)He sprayed the nest with an aerosol
can;that they issued the lineman.She was never bothered by them;in that spot;again.I don't know the name or if it works on anything other then flying insects.Sorry. Irish
P.S.I think that he said that it froze the insects!

The Terro contains borax, mixed with an attractant for the sweet-eating ants... it's worked before, but this seems a very persistant bunch... but you put a drop on a little cardboard square, and they gather round like it's a buffet table... maybe I could use the blowtorch then, if the S/O didn't object to scorch marks on the kitchen counter...