> yard. These ants keep my neighbors just as miserable and they have
> pest control companies coming out. I won't.
> Thanks for your note. Laura
I'm thinking it's the pest control companies that have built up a resistance
to chemical controls in the ants where you live, and the only solution now
is traps.
If they don't climb the walls and track across the ceiling, you could keep
them out of your beds, off tables and chairs, etc. by putting the furniture-
legs in cans with soapy water in the cans - use large size cans and raise
the legs up out of the water with half-bricks.
Bait other containers of soapy water and provide one-way entrances to
them.
Use Tanglefoot generously on strips of cardboard and lay them across
whereever the ants come in at night - I don't know whether that stuff is
flammable, but if it is, there's your kindling for the fireplace and sweet
revenge !.
Use DE sparingly in places where humans/pets don't visit, especially
on and around anthills, and signal the presence of it by fencing it off
with that little ornamental fencing that's about 18" high with wires that
stick right into the soil - or the fancy white plastic stuff about the same
height - so your family and pets don't blunder onto it.
When the fancy seizes you, take pails of boiling water out and dump
that on the anthills - guaranteed to kill and the activity helps burn up
adrenalin.
Start thinking like a tactician/general fighting a war - they're following
instinct and you CAN out-think them - realize that you're in for the long
haul - YOU'RE not moving, THEY are ..... Make the results of each
battle so nasty for them the survivors will learn where NOT to go after
a few generations - let your chemical-loving lazy neighbors have the
ants all to themselves .....
Toni
This reminds me of instructions for getting rid of bedbugs, published in a
19th century newspaper.
Put legs of beds and tables in cans of coal oil (kerosene), slosh coal oil
over all of the interior furniture, walls, floors and doors, stand outside
well away from the structure and toss in a burning torch. When the fire
dies down and the ashes cool, you'll find you've destroyed most of the
bedbugs. Margaret L
