Help! I have ants in the basement

[Robert]

Just discovered last night that there's a lot of small ants crawling around one area of our basement. We also have a lot of ants in our lawn. Every time I mow the lawn, I see a bunch of little ant hills all over the place. Someone said it's very bad this year with ants all over the province.

What to do?

 

[SuperSwede]

Just discovered last night that there's a lot of small ants crawling around one area of our basement. We also have a lot of ants in our lawn. Every time I mow the lawn, I see a bunch of little ant hills all over the place. Someone said it's very bad this year with ants all over the province.

What to do?

There are a lot of good anti-ant products available.. I used a fine powder around the entire house and a couple of ant traps filled with a blue liquid that they like to eat and then bring back home to the nest where it poisons them all ! )

We had a major ant problem earlier this summer and I havent seen a single one lately!

 

[FrankenFretter]

Around here, ants are a huge problem. Everyone has them, it's just a matter of how well you can control them. We use Terro liquid ant baits in the yard around our house. They really work!

They have them for inside as well...

 

[marnold]

We've had ant problems for years. I'm considering napalm.

 

[peachhead]

Astroturf maybe?

 

[M29]

Anteater's aren't cheap but I hear they eat ants.

We tried some of the Baits this summer and they worked pretty well. Try to find where they are coming in.
One summer I followed a column of ants going from the corner of the front door down the stairs into the family room and around a corner. I could not believe it, it was like a regiment or something marching along in single file.

Napalm.......now that just might do it........yup I gotta find some of that........

 

[luvmyshiner]

The ants we have problems with are fire ants. Different creatures entirely. They've almost wiped out the quail population. Don't know if it will work on your ants or not but Over 'n Out works for about six months for us.

 

[Algonquin]

What to do?

Give your pants a good shake each morning or else... you know

 

[Robert]

Give your pants a good shake each morning or else... you know

Heh :AOK:

 

[M29]

Oh man speaking of pants. I was in Ft. Lauderdale back in the early 70's and our band was going to play up in West Palm Beach this one night. As I stood in front of my car waiting for the rest of the band to pick me up I did not realize I was standing on a large fire ant hill. All of a sudden I found out....There must have been hundreds of ants crawling up my legs. It didn't take long for me to get my pants off and right in front of 8 or 10 people at that. It did'nt matter to me them babies hurt.

 

[luvmyshiner]

Give your pants a good shake each morning or else... you know

Wait, we're not supposed to do that anyway??? Next thing I know you'll tell me I don't have to sniff my shirt before I put it on . . . or underwear for that matter.:messedup:

 

[sumitomo]

Shiner,Shiner no need to sniff the underware,thats why you stick it on the wall at night to air out.Sumi

 

[just strum]

Around here, ants are a huge problem. Everyone has them, it's just a matter of how well you can control them. We use Terro liquid ant baits in the yard around our house. They really work!

They have them for inside as well...

Every spring they come in around the kitchen sink and we put out Terro. They attack teh stuff immediately, take it back to the nest (or whatever they are living in) and immediately the numbers dwindle and within a couple of days no more ants until the following spring.

We get ant hills (actually ant mountains) outside and some get to be about a foot to two feet high. The ones that are hundreds of feet from the house I don't bother, but as they try to build near the house I use powder (can't recall the name).

 

[pes_laul]

Every spring they come in around the kitchen sink and we put out Terro. They attack teh stuff immediately, take it back to the nest (or whatever they are living in) and immediately the numbers dwindle and within a couple of days no more ants until the following spring.

We get ant hills (actually ant mountains) outside and some get to be about a foot to two feet high. The ones that are hundreds of feet from the house I don't bother, but as they try to build near the house I use powder (can't recall the name).

The only time we had an ant problem we tried that stuff and it worked great.

 

[peachhead]

I use Orthene outside on fire ant hills, it works pretty good. Whenever I had ants in the house I tried to track down where they came from and used Bengal (it works really well plus I could get it with no smell).

 

[ibanezjunkie]

deoderant cans and a lighter, thats how i do it.

or use a vacuum cleaner and just burn the bag afterwards.

 

[peachhead]

deoderant cans and a lighter, thats how i do it.

That's a heap more fun than ant spray, I imagine. :rotflmao:

 

[just strum]

That's a heap more fun than ant spray, I imagine. :rotflmao:

Just remember to use cans, not roll-on.

 

[pes_laul]

Just remember to use cans, not roll-on.

:thwap:

 

[ibanezjunkie]

it makes the room smell like a cheap date, but hell, its the most fun you can have with 99p anti perspirant products.

 

[Katastrophe]

Amdro outside, Combat ant baits inside. Problem solved.

 

[Tynee]

We've had ant problems for years. I'm considering napalm.

:rotflmao:

 

[otaypanky]

Anteater's aren't cheap but I hear they eat ants.

We tried some of the Baits this summer and they worked pretty well. Try to find where they are coming in.
One summer I followed a column of ants going from the corner of the front door down the stairs into the family room and around a corner. I could not believe it, it was like a regiment or something marching along in single file.

Napalm.......now that just might do it........yup I gotta find some of that........

I saw a program on PBS about ants and this behavior was photographed in minute detail. When the colony marching in a line encounters a hole in the leaf they are crossing or some kind of void in their path, some of the ants hold on to one another forming a live bridge for the others to traverse. Truly amazing to watch ~