Ants

[owc6]

DE

Make sure it's food grade.


Totally non toxic, you can even dust your pets with it to rid them of fleas/ticks.

[Don Rickles]

Well it's really white not green....

[Rodnok1]

Originally Posted by Frankie the Fink

We have those demonic fire ants in Florida, by the time your realize you've trapsed across one of their anthills, the soldiers have already fired your ass up, biting your ankles and calves and heading north for Big Jim and the Twins. You have to strip off and get rid of the little f*ckers right quick or you'll have itchy painful bites lasting hours.

Evil little bastards... Cajun used a mixture of spicy hot stuff to kill the hills.
Here I use boiling water if in dog area elsewhere I use Amdro(on the list to do today actually).
The hills in the field next door will get basketball sized some years so I kill those off also.
Always put layer of Amdro down around electrical junction box and incoming power.
They love the heat and dry of electricity and will cause a short out, they shorted a 3 phase power drop out place i worked.

[Torqaholic]

Originally Posted by Red Baron

Reminds me of something...

Reminds me of this guy.. Dude's a hoot. Have watched all his nature videos in the last couple weeks -

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by 6spdC6

Up north in the sandy area I live in heavy rain puts them into the house. Happens a few times a year. Just something you expect! As we have a cat we used those ant baits and there in a area the cat can not get to.
Ants affects everybody up here from the multi million dollar house to a welfare shack.

With the Terro ant traps you don't have to worry about pets.

I have ants in the kitchen some years, some years not. I just had some of the real tiny ones last week (Terro works with all ants). I put one of these traps on the counter, next day way fewer ants, another day and they were completely gone. They take the poison back to their nest and it kills all of them.

You can also get just the liquid, put a drop or two on a piece of cardboard. Put several around where the ants are. They will be gone in a couple days.

[Rodnok1]

Originally Posted by owc6

DE

Make sure it's food grade.


Totally non toxic, you can even dust your pets with it to rid them of fleas/ticks.

I've used it on dogs that were sensitive to chemicals and we used it on sheep.
Sheep are horrible if ticks get on them.

[Don Rickles]

Originally Posted by Bruze

With the Terro ant traps you don't have to worry about pets.

I have ants in the kitchen some years, some years not. I just had some of the real tiny ones last week (Terro works with all ants). I put one of these traps on the counter, next day way fewer ants, another day and they were completely gone. They take the poison back to their nest and it kills all of them.

You can also get just the liquid, put a drop or two on a piece of cardboard. Put several around where the ants are. They will be gone in a couple days.

I've set several of these around the greenhouse. Say within about two days, not only is the liquid completely gone, all the dead ant carcasses are gone too...

[GTOguy]

Originally Posted by Frankie the Fink

We have those demonic fire ants in Florida, by the time your realize you've trapsed across one of their anthills, the soldiers have already fired your ass up, biting your ankles and calves and heading north for Big Jim and the Twins. You have to strip off and get rid of the little f*ckers right quick or you'll have itchy painful bites lasting hours.

June, 1965. Pinecrest Lake, California. Camp Lair of the Bear. I was 4 years old. Parents, brother, and I rowed out to a neat little granite outcrop out in the lake for a picnic lunch. In shorts, I sat down on an ant trail without knowing which was teeming with black ants about a half inch long. Before I knew it, one had bitten me on the tip of Little Jeff. 59 years ago and I can see and feel it like yesterday. It was almost as bad as when I got stung on the balls by a hornet while deer hunting many years later. That time, it ended the hunt.

[04 commemorative]

I even use terro outside

[ZipZap]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

It’s the heat that draws them in… I have had two space heaters running all winter, average temperature at 80*+/-. Also the floor is made of brick over a sand bed. Their colonies have moved from the brick floor up into the plants and flowers. The ant hills in the potting soil’s are in selective plants but big and many.

I’m really thinking the heat is the main attraction.

Ants only care about two things outside the nest: Food/Water

They run to food every time. If they are herbivorous, they will eat flora. Some species are farming the decayed flora as well for fungus.

They run toward, or away, from water depending on the case. Seen both many times.

I have never considered ants anything but free labor for my vegetables. Same as worms.

[BRUIZER]

Originally Posted by owc6

DE

Make sure it's food grade.


Totally non toxic, you can even dust your pets with it to rid them of fleas/ticks.

This! We utilize DE to keep chickens tick/bug free.

[ZipZap]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

June, 1965. Pinecrest Lake, California. Camp Lair of the Bear. I was 4 years old. Parents, brother, and I rowed out to a neat little granite outcrop out in the lake for a picnic lunch. In shorts, I sat down on an ant trail without knowing which was teeming with black ants about a half inch long. Before I knew it, one had bitten me on the tip of Little Jeff. 59 years ago and I can see and feel it like yesterday. It was almost as bad as when I got stung on the balls by a hornet while deer hunting many years later. That time, it ended the hunt.

Pics of Hornet?

[Bruze]

Originally Posted by ZipZap

Ants only care about two things outside the nest: Food/Water

They run to food every time. If they are herbivorous, they will eat flora. Some species are farming the decayed flora as well for fungus.

They run toward, or away, from water depending on the case. Seen both many times.

I have never considered ants anything but free labor for my vegetables. Same as worms.

Ron Dickles is worried about his pot plants.

[ZipZap]

Originally Posted by Don Rickles

Well it's really white not green....

I knew you lived in the Amazon

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by Frankie the Fink

We have those demonic fire ants in Florida, by the time your realize you've trapsed across one of their anthills, the soldiers have already fired your ass up, biting your ankles and calves and heading north for Big Jim and the Twins. You have to strip off and get rid of the little f*ckers right quick or you'll have itchy painful bites lasting hours.

My son had them where he used to live in Charlestown SC. They make little hills everywhere. I can only imagine the vast cities they have built below ground.

[GTOguy]

Originally Posted by ZipZap

Pics of Hornet?

This was back in 1999. No cell phone/camera. It was one of those B-29 looking things about an inch long with the tiny waist and a huge stinger. It got me 3 or more times on the back of the sack before I could get it out of my drawers. I had to float the gears on my pickup on the way home because I couldn't depress the clutch pedal, the swelling in my groin was so bad.

[ZipZap]

Originally Posted by GTOguy

This was back in 1999. No cell phone/camera. It was one of those B-29 looking things about an inch long with the tiny waist and a huge stinger. It got me 3 or more times on the back of the sack before I could get it out of my drawers. I had to float the gears on my pickup on the way home because I couldn't depress the clutch pedal, the swelling in my groin was so bad.

I was coming down the 152 toward the valley at 70mph, which is the fastest my VW station wagon would go downhill. Elbow out the window like we always did. Bee hit elbow and bounced to seat. Flew up my shorts and stung my sack. Are CA insects gay?

[Unsuspicious]

Originally Posted by ZipZap

I was coming down the 152 toward the valley at 70mph, which is the fastest my VW station wagon would go downhill. Elbow out the window like we always did. Bee hit elbow and bounced to seat. Flew up my shorts and stung my sack. Are CA insects gay?

Probably shouldn't have put perfume on your nuts to make it smell like flowers

[Vandelay Industries]

Originally Posted by ZipZap

I was coming down the 152 toward the valley at 70mph, which is the fastest my VW station wagon would go downhill. Elbow out the window like we always did. Bee hit elbow and bounced to seat. Flew up my shorts and stung my sack. Are CA insects gay?

Everything in CA is gay.

[Yadkin]

Originally Posted by Vandelay Industries

Everything in CA is gay.

Massachushits used to be the Bay State. After forcing queer marriage through judicial fiat, it became known as the Gaye State.