Troubles with Ants.

[ZENYO]

Ok... The wife and I live in my in-laws basement suite and we are having a problem with ants. They are all over the place. It's hard to tell where they are coming from because they are scattered. I put out a couple of ant traps in places where I thought they might be coming from, (the kind of trap where they take the food from the trap and bring it back to the nest and it kills the whole colony). I thought it had worked cause the ants disappeared for a couple of weeks. Well…

Theeere Baaaack…… Ugh! These things are annoying! Any ideas how I can get rid of the ants?

[osprey4]

There's no getting around it, you should call an exterminator. You'll want to stress the importance of using low tox, quick degrading insecticides, since you're in an enclosed area.

[maface]

I had a ant problem once couldn't find them looked everywhere finally found the nest it was in the window shade tube

[Mike]

Where we live in the valley of Cali we have a huge ant problem.
I found nests all over the place. In my bath room sink, window shades, outside, everywhere. I walk outside and see them scurrying around, it's only a matter of time before they are back inside the house.

Aye, I get the same thing every summer, and also live in a basement (more or less). I've done the ant-traps thing and they kind of smirked and went about their business like I wasn't even there.

There's nothing worse than waking up in the morning to find the Mountain Dew can you left on your desk swarming with ants.

I had thought about burning them all, but I kind of like my house, you know?

[thekingofpain]

Cant say my "beach house method" will work for you as well as it does me---I just throw a 5 lb bag of sugar underneath the nextdoor neighbors house at the beginning of each summer season---its worked for years...

[Master Chief]

Originally posted by thekingofpain
Cant say my "beach house method" will work for you as well as it does me---I just throw a 5 lb bag of sugar underneath the nextdoor neighbors house at the beginning of each summer season---its worked for years...

Thats not very neighborly!

[ZENYO]

Originally posted by thekingofpain
Cant say my "beach house method" will work for you as well as it does me---I just throw a 5 lb bag of sugar underneath the nextdoor neighbors house at the beginning of each summer season---its worked for years...

That awesome!

That's to bad, cause the ants are driving my wife crazy! Oh well, I guess she'll just have to live with them. I'll see if google has anything for me

[OuTpaTienT]

I don't know about a permanent solution, but if ya get tired of spraying RAID and having to wipe of all their little dead antibodies, then here's a tip:

When you discover a trail of ants that have found something to eat in your house, (like a left out soda can or dinner scraps or whatever) then simply remove that item, throw it in the trash (and maybe then spray some RAID on the trash), and as for the trail of ants leading to where that item was...leave them alone. Seriously. Once their target object is gone they'll walk themselves out the same way they came in. Usually less than an hour and they're all gone.

This is really a good technique to use if you ever have a trail of the suckers going through an area of carpet or any other place where it might be very difficult to clean them up if you were to just kill em all.

[ZENYO]

Originally posted by OuTpaTienT
I don't know about a permanent solution, but if ya get tired of spraying RAID and having to wipe of all their little dead antibodies, then here's a tip:

When you discover a trail of ants that have found something to eat in your house, (like a left out soda can or dinner scraps or whatever) then simply remove that item, throw it in the trash (and maybe then spray some RAID on the trash), and as for the trail of ants leading to where that item was...leave them alone. Seriously. Once their target object is gone they'll walk themselves out the same way they came in. Usually less than an hour and they're all gone.

This is really a good technique to use if you ever have a trail of the suckers going through an area of carpet or any other place where it might be very difficult to clean them up if you were to just kill em all.

If you leave them alone, they will keep on coming back won't they? I have put down sticky paper, raid, ant traps, swepped and moppedthe floors and everytime I do something to make them scatter back to where they came from... They always come back.