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TGT
Social climber
So Cal
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Problem with it is it only kills the ants that get into it. (works great for roaches thought!)
Something slow acting that they take back to queen mama is what you need.
Our preferred method when I was a kid was to drill a hole by pounding on a sharpend pipe down a couple of feet in the center of the hive.
remove the pipe.
Drop a Cherry bomb down the hole
Throw a cinder block on top of the hole to cap and direct the detonation.
No more ant hill, but dad will be pissed that someone keeps shattering the blocks he had stored for a project.
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murcy
Gym climber
sanfrancisco
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This thread made me reflect that when we moved to this SF house 14 years ago we had yearly ants in the kitchen. But we haven't had a single one for probably 6 or 7 years now. Same is true of mosquitos. Climate? Chemical pest control?
We do still have many adorable pill bugs and spiders. And fruit flies when we leave food out for them in the kitchen. And by "we" of course I do not include myself.
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Wade Icey
Trad climber
www.alohashirtrescue.com
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Murcy, ants are a really good sign of the presence of termites in a structure. Ants are effing eating the suckers and have it made in the shade when they find especially a subterranean colony but also go after the dry-wood ones up in the structure, usually the roof. So it does not mean there ARE termites but is a good indicator.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 4, 2013 - 12:13am PT
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I've been checked for termites.. it's a negative. Every inch of the whole damn San Fernando Vally simply has ants.
I'm over the ants anyhow..
My new hell is roaches. The exterminator was a fail.. the back yard is still a creepy landmine.
I'm officially re-naming this thread "I'm in Periplaneta hell"
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Pennsylenvy
Gym climber
A dingy corner in your refrigerator
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Big June bugs in all the sinks every morning...moths in the shower....lots of hornets early on this year in a curious way.
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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In Okinawa they say you either have roaches or ants, but not both at the same time.
The question is which is more obnoxious? Since our roaches are 3" long and easy to catch, we mostly go after the ants with poison they take back to the nest. They live in the cinderblock walls here since every house is a combination of concrete and cinderblock because of the typhoons, and over time will eat the rubber insulation off of the wiring. Even concrete buildings here are torn down and replaced about every 50 years.
Tropical islands make great travel posters but are much less fun to live in.
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