First off you will need some very dark clothing and a rather large container. At about 3am break into the zoo and solve your ant problem and a new family pet all in one swoop.
anyone else noticing that this year's ants are a lot more numerous and resilient? they've been building colonies where I've got landscape rock, and weed barrier underneath. it's as if the lawn/garden is too easy and they're looking for a bigger challenge.
usually the liquid ant bait with borax (store bought) works for me, but these latest bastards either ignore it, or eat a bit of it and keep chugging along.
Living on a giant ant hill, our community buys (http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/wi...-0598878p.html) and it works like a hot damn. Only thing we tried that consistently kills them. They end up coming back in a few weeks, but like I said, we're on an ant hill so im sure there are a billion of the bastards
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Living on a giant ant hill, our community buys (http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/wi...-0598878p.html) and it works like a hot damn. Only thing we tried that consistently kills them. They end up coming back in a few weeks, but like I said, we're on an ant hill so im sure there are a billion of the bastards
I think I may end up trying this. I picked up their Total WipeOut Max for killing driveway weeds and it murders shizz dead. May as well try it for the ants. My coke can of homemade stuff is still out there but it seems like it tripled the ants, lol. Must taste good to them, but I want it to work faster.
First you convince them that working 40 hours a week for someone else is a life worth living. Next introduce an extensively redundant amount of options for multimedia consumption, over time leading them to an increasingly sedentary lifestyle. Make unhealthy food not only plentifully and cheap but make healthy food cost prohibitive, driving them down the path to obesity and disease. Then you sit back, kick up your feet, and let the inevitable march of time handle the rest. Voila, no more ants.
This is a well done post.
Thank you.
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1 part borax, 3 parts sugar - dissolve in a little warm water to make a paste. Add a little honey or maple syrup to make a nice sticky sweet substance. Put it in a couple containers with holes cut in the top for the ants to access (plastic bottle or margarine containers work well). The ants will take the borax solution back to the nest and it will kill the queen and everyone else.
I've used something similar. Mix Borax and sugar into water. Dip cotton balls in water. Put cotton balls near the collective. Dead ants in 2-3 days.
We had a massive ant infestation after bringing back some kind of ant with our camping supply from BC last year. We put out 4 cotton balls in the house along the line the ants were walking. They were dead in less than a day.
Living on a giant ant hill, our community buys (http://www.canadiantire.ca/en/pdp/wi...-0598878p.html) and it works like a hot damn. Only thing we tried that consistently kills them. They end up coming back in a few weeks, but like I said, we're on an ant hill so im sure there are a billion of the bastards
My link was for the cheaper powder form of this. Crazy how it works
Get yourself some Diatomaceous earth from a health store and spread it along the base of the tree and where the ants travel. It is sharp like glass to them and cuts them and causes them to dehydrate and die. It worked wonders around my house. You have to apply on dry days as if it gets wet it will not work.
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You can get a 5kg box of 'Protect-It' (diatomaceous earth) at any Ag retailer. It'll cost you about $85.
For the ants, there is a product called 'Pounce' that will work great. It contains the same active ingredient (Permethrin) as some of the other products mentioned in here, but it'll be at a much higher concentration (384g/L Permethrin in 'Pounce' vs 2.5g/L Permethrin in 'Ant-Out'), and cost you a lot less per gram of active ingredient. It'll cost about $70 for a 1L bottle of Pounce, again at a farm supply ag retail.
