Whats the best way to kill Ants?

Xevious

Xevious

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I'm having a Ant invasion in my bathroom. I tried ant traps, I tried Raid Ant Spray...Nothing seems to work.

Do any of you guys have any suggestions?
 
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Boo-Yah.
 
get someone to lick all the ants otherwise. get rid of the source of the err ant invasion.. has someone been eating in the bathroom? *cough cough* but i think my friend had that prob and we just got rid of the trash and clean it out with water and soap and err thats about it i guess
 
Chinese ant chalk! That stuff works better then anything I've ever used before. Only problem is it's kind of hard to find, the little store I used to buy it from had it behind the counter.
 
orkin didnt fix our problem we have at my house,but then again we had a huge nest of ants under my house. we had orkin over like once a month and it never got fixed.
 
Drop your Xbox on them. That outa flatten em pretty well, and it has quite a bit of surface area so you can get a bunch at once.
 
If you've got a tree close to your house (bathroom in particular) that may be it. We had a huge ass branch from a pecan tree over our roof and every time it rained them suckers would wind up working their way into the house. Once that branch was removed we never had the problem again.
 
[quote name='Xevious']I'm having a Ant invasion in my bathroom. I tried ant traps, I tried Raid Ant Spray...Nothing seems to work.

Do any of you guys have any suggestions?[/quote]

Why are they there in the first place?

If you make sure there's nothing for them there, they'll leave.

Do you really have the right to kill them?
 
The easiest way to get rid of large amounts of ants is to use a vacuum. May sound simple but many never think about it. I have killed thousands of ants using this method. Now to have them never come back try spraying poisen outside your house. Also try cleaning the area once in a while. ;) Baking soda and those clear ant traps have also worked well for us.
 
WD-40 X Lighter = PWN3D...... just try not to snag any wooden areas of your bathroom, it'll light pretty fast, so if that does happen, RUN RUN RUN!
 
Damn i also have the same problem.I have no idea where their coming from but ill do the things u guys suggested, thanks.
 
the best way to get rid of ants is also a bit of a pain...you'll need to do a bit of detective work and follow each trail of ants...undoubtedly, the trail will lead to some crack in the wall, likely along the floor....

once you find their entrance points, seal it with some caulk...if you do this for all of them, your ant problem will never be all that bad again...they'll eventually find another crack somewhere, but it'll probably be awhile, and when they do, you only have to take about 5 seconds to repeat the process once...

optionally, if you want to be extra thorough, you can fill the crack with your ant poison of choice...I use one called "Grants Kills Ants"...

as you can see, I used to have a hideous ant problem, haha
 
I just had this problem. There's a powder that you spread around the parameter of your house. After I did that it took about a day and they were all gone. I don't recall the name of it, later I'll go to my garage and check it out. It came in a bag about the size of a bag of chips, but it was much heavier.
 
THanks for the suggestions guys...I have pretty bad Ant investation right now. I try to see which one of your ideas works and I will post later on my results.
 
Well you could use sugar, mix in some baking soda in there. Put it on the wall edge. They will grab some of the baking soda along with the sugar, and bam destroy the problem at the source. I've seen it work.

If not you can just call Fear Factor to your house, I'm pretty sure they are always looking for delicious things for their contestants to eat.
 
I dont know what Chinese Chalk is. I live fairly close to Oakland China Town but every time I go to a store over there, I get confused because everything is written in Mandarin. I can navagate through the restuarant menus but the stores is where I get lost.

I tried spray around the perimeter of my apartment building and that seems to have cut the Ant horde down a bit. So far though, this is turning into a insect version of the Iraq war.

I'll go try the other suggestions later on (Not the pissing on the floor suggestion - sorry Captain of Industry).
 
Best Solution:
Learn the ant's language and breed with their women. Eventually your differences will be settled.


Ahh family guy, what would we do without you?
 
[quote name='Xevious']
I'll go try the other suggestions later on (Not the pissing on the floor suggestion - sorry Captain of Industry).[/quote]

Meh, it's not for everyone I guess.
 
Ants, huh? We had quite a severe ant problem at the vineyard this year. I had Art Garfunkel come by with his compressor, and we created a total vacuum outside the house, and we blew the ants out the front door. But I'm sure you high-tech CAG people could care less about our resort-town ways.

[quote name='AlbinoNinja']Ahh family guy, what would we do without you?[/quote]

Watch the Simpsons, obviously.
 
I would not try and kill all the ants around your house. Ants are the natural enemy of termites, and it is good to keep some around.

Find the location of the entry point, seal it -- tape is fine. Now put down some bait traps -- it is best to buy 2 or three diff brands of bait traps, make sure they have diff ingredients. Ants can be picky and they may not like one bait, but they will like the other -- I try and buy one of the traps that comes with the "dual" bait in one trap, and then the other I buy is a totally cheap brand. Lay the traps around the entrance and the destination point they are all going to.

In a day or two they should all be gone.

Now, go buy a good quality caulk and a nice caulk gun, not a cheap one, and caulk all the seams near the infestation -- window trim, toe-kick, any seam that may be in the area.

You should then be free and clear.
 
[quote name='Moxio']Grab your Supersoaker, load it with chocolate, and blast those ants crazy! TIME TO EAT![/quote]

What if your Supersoaker is already full of fine cognac, as it should be?
 
[quote name='jmcc'][quote name='Moxio']Grab your Supersoaker, load it with chocolate, and blast those ants crazy! TIME TO EAT![/quote]

What if your Supersoaker is already full of fine cognac, as it should be?[/quote]

Well then, I'd follow captainofindustry's advice.

PISS-FEST!
 
[quote name='digioverload']Semen contains a lot of sugar, so maybe they're coming in after that. Try cleaning up your little splatters for now on.[/quote]

So Santa Claus is involved more in making candy canes than he lead us to believe?
 
[quote name='captainofindustry'][quote name='digioverload']Semen contains a lot of sugar, so maybe they're coming in after that. Try cleaning up your little splatters for now on.[/quote]

So Santa Claus is involved more in making candy canes than he lead us to believe?[/quote]

Lmao.
 
[quote name='digioverload']Semen contains a lot of sugar, so maybe they're coming in after that. Try cleaning up your little splatters for now on.[/quote]

How do you know this? Do ants crawl up your buttocks??





(Sorry dude. You set yourself up....I couldn't resist :D )
 
I enjoying watching their reaction to the Chinese chalk. They lose the ability to run straight.

Once I got annoyed with this thick line of ants along my driveway. So I rounded them up with a Jolly Rancher. Then I got a full bottle of Elmer's Glue and made this circular wall of glue about 1 foot in diameter with the Jolly Rancher in the middle. Then I proceeded to thicken the inside part of the glue wall with more glue. For the next 15 minutes I just kept adding glue. Ants started to drown in the glue while others made a break from the Jolly Rancher. Eventually there was nowhere left to run and covered the rest of the ants and the Jolly Rancher. A couple hours later I had this disc of glue with a ton of fossilized ants.
 
[quote name='OILYWATER']I enjoying watching their reaction to the Chinese chalk. They lose the ability to run straight.

Once I got annoyed with this thick line of ants along my driveway. So I rounded them up with a Jolly Rancher. Then I got a full bottle of Elmer's Glue and made this circular wall of glue about 1 foot in diameter with the Jolly Rancher in the middle. Then I proceeded to thicken the inside part of the glue wall with more glue. For the next 15 minutes I just kept adding glue. Ants started to drown in the glue while others made a break from the Jolly Rancher. Eventually there was nowhere left to run and covered the rest of the ants and the Jolly Rancher. A couple hours later I had this disc of glue with a ton of fossilized ants.[/quote]
That sounds like so much fun
 
[quote name='OILYWATER']I enjoying watching their reaction to the Chinese chalk. They lose the ability to run straight.

Once I got annoyed with this thick line of ants along my driveway. So I rounded them up with a Jolly Rancher. Then I got a full bottle of Elmer's Glue and made this circular wall of glue about 1 foot in diameter with the Jolly Rancher in the middle. Then I proceeded to thicken the inside part of the glue wall with more glue. For the next 15 minutes I just kept adding glue. Ants started to drown in the glue while others made a break from the Jolly Rancher. Eventually there was nowhere left to run and covered the rest of the ants and the Jolly Rancher. A couple hours later I had this disc of glue with a ton of fossilized ants.[/quote]

Damn, you showed those ants.
 
[quote name='OILYWATER']I enjoying watching their reaction to the Chinese chalk. They lose the ability to run straight.

Once I got annoyed with this thick line of ants along my driveway. So I rounded them up with a Jolly Rancher. Then I got a full bottle of Elmer's Glue and made this circular wall of glue about 1 foot in diameter with the Jolly Rancher in the middle. Then I proceeded to thicken the inside part of the glue wall with more glue. For the next 15 minutes I just kept adding glue. Ants started to drown in the glue while others made a break from the Jolly Rancher. Eventually there was nowhere left to run and covered the rest of the ants and the Jolly Rancher. A couple hours later I had this disc of glue with a ton of fossilized ants.[/quote]

thats kinda mean. I hope that never happens to you.
 
[quote name='jimbodan']Chinese ant chalk! That stuff works better then anything I've ever used before. Only problem is it's kind of hard to find, the little store I used to buy it from had it behind the counter.[/quote]

hahaha my mom uses that, and all these other stupid chinese crap that actually works, so not so stupid after all, chalk that keeps ants away? wow. true, i have some for trade :D
 
Here's a legit & cheapass soluttion to try: Table Salt

toss some table salt down where your seeing the ants, the ants intern will think that the salt is food (human food is very salty after all) and take it back to there nest - the salt will both paralyse and dehidrate the ants, at there source none the less.

The two advantages of this method are cheap & safe

Cheap 'cause just about every body has salt

Safe cause salt isn't poisonous to children & most pets (like cats & dogs)

Growing up po' you see all kinds of stuff like this, and believe me salt works, but it might take a day or so
 
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