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Posted by aurgathor on May 15, 2006, 3:57 pm
I'm having some problems with ants. I first noticed them about a year ago,
and I don't seem to be able to get rid of them. First, they moved into an
electric outlet in my kitchen (a very convenient place, I guess) so I
vacuumed them out and sprayed the outlet with "Ortho HighPower Home defense"
against ants and roaches. So they moved to another outlet. I cleaned that
one, too, and sprayed all other outlets in the kitchen. I also made sure
that the kitchen was cleaned up. However, the ants are still there
somewhere, they apparently just moved to some place I can no longer find
them. (they might be underneath my home)
So, what's the best way to tackle them? I'll be doing a complete remodel of
my kitchen in a couple of months, and if there were something I could spray
behind and underneath the cabinets before putting them back, that could
probably help tremendously.
TIA
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Posted by DAC on May 15, 2006, 4:05 pm
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terro ant killer -- <http://www.terro.com/>
worked for me! Good luck.
Dac
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Posted by Norminn on May 15, 2006, 5:21 pm
DAC wrote:
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> worked for me! Good luck.
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> Dac
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Works for me as well. I think ants favorite food stops are sticky
spills in cupboards,crumbs and spills under refrig. and crumbs around
pet bowls.
Environment helps bring them indoors - either too much rain, which makes
their nest less favorable, or too little rain and they look for moisture.
It doesn't take much of a spill or food crumbs to make a meal for them,
greasy and sweet preferred :o)
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Posted by Mark Lloyd on May 15, 2006, 8:20 pm
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>DAC wrote:
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>> worked for me! Good luck.
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>> Dac
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>Works for me as well. I think ants favorite food stops are sticky
>spills in cupboards,crumbs and spills under refrig. and crumbs around
>pet bowls.
>Environment helps bring them indoors - either too much rain, which makes
>their nest less favorable, or too little rain and they look for moisture.
>It doesn't take much of a spill or food crumbs to make a meal for them,
>greasy and sweet preferred :o)
Most of the ones I had were clustered around sticky spills, but they
were all over within a few feet.
--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what
to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb
contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin
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Posted by Mark Lloyd on May 15, 2006, 8:19 pm
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>worked for me! Good luck.
>Dac
I had a lot of little black ants in my kitchen. A couple of weeks ago
I found Terro at the local Lowe's, I put some in the kitchen (next to
the North wall where they seemed to be entering), for the next few
days there were a lot more ants (especially around the Terro), Now
there are very few.
--
Mark Lloyd
http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what
to have for lunch. Liberty is a well armed lamb
contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin
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