Re: Ant REMEDY - This works like a charm!
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Originally Posted by
bubba
Here are a couple more -
Take an empty water bottle (20 oz) and melt some holes in it about 3" from the top. Put about an inch of Mountain Dew in the bottle (orange is the best) and hang from trees or under your decks. Cheap bee catchers....we use them up at our lake place where they are really bad and it cut way down on the bee stings the grandkids were getting.
Last time we were up there, we stopped at a place for dinner and saw some clear plastic bags of water hanging from the gutters outside the kitchen door. We asked the waitress what they were for and she had no clue. So on our way to the car, my husband went to the kitchen door and called out to the cook and asked him. They keep flies away!! Something to do with their depth perception...but oddly enough, it works!
Gotta put pennies in those bags of water!!!!
Re: Ant REMEDY - This works like a charm!
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Originally Posted by
kensington
Ants in NEW YORK? You gots to be kidding me! Who'd a thunk it? :icon_heh:
Well, heck YES! Nearly every year, to one degree or another. But this year, they were particularly pesky, and I was in at least $30
(HELLO, fabric money.......) to rid them. NOTHING worked.
Everything I used, I already had. (20 Mule Team Borax is a great product, by the way. Old School. Great for baby clothes, delicates, laundry stains, yadda, yadda....)
Regarding the recipe. The sugar water draws them in, but the borax seals the deal. The ants return to the colony after ingesting the recipe, they die and the ant colony eats them, and then they die....EWE!
DISGUSTING, right?
HAHA! NOPE. I was under a serious invasion, and they are GONE, GONE, GONE!
Write this one down in your HOME book, and if you don't have one, you should get one. Mine is a fabric covered (AH!) journal filled with all kinds of USEFUL information. The front is reserved for my best GO-TO hand written recipes. The back is filled with info regarding the house, and such.
For instance, when the septic was pumped out last. How much paint it took to cover each room. When the refrigerator was last purchased. When we ALL received our last tetnus shot, and the pups, their rabies shots. When the roof was replaced. How to de-skunk a dog (VERY useful information, my neighbors always seem to need). And the kicker, how to size for a bra! Hey, three growing girls over the years! No muffin tops here!
In summary, (because I know we have English professors amongst us), this ant remedy REALLY works, and it is VERY inexpensive.
If you don't have a house journal, GET ONE. And write the remedy down in the back, and start your own HOUSE journal!
Not an ant in sight, in 48 hours!.....
Re: Ant REMEDY - This works like a charm!
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Originally Posted by
bubba
Here are a couple more -
Take an empty water bottle (20 oz) and melt some holes in it about 3" from the top. Put about an inch of Mountain Dew in the bottle (orange is the best) and hang from trees or under your decks. Cheap bee catchers....we use them up at our lake place where they are really bad and it cut way down on the bee stings the grandkids were getting.
Last time we were up there, we stopped at a place for dinner and saw some clear plastic bags of water hanging from the gutters outside the kitchen door. We asked the waitress what they were for and she had no clue. So on our way to the car, my husband went to the kitchen door and called out to the cook and asked him. They keep flies away!! Something to do with their depth perception...but oddly enough, it works!
Wonder if that would work to keep yellow jackets away from my hummingbird feeders. Those darn things scare away my hummingbirds. I sure think it is worth a try. Thanks for that tip!!
Re: Ant REMEDY - This works like a charm!
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Originally Posted by
Sandy Navas
Oh, Sandy, your visual made me cringe...
Re: Ant REMEDY - This works like a charm!
And the picture of the ants made my skin crawl and I pulled my feet up from the floor...
Re: Ant REMEDY - This works like a charm!
Thanks, Sue! We've been having quite a problem here in CT as well. I'm thinking with all the rain in the past two months, they're just trying to find a way to avoid drowning! :icon_rolleyes:
A couple of years ago I got some liquid ant repellant at Ocean State Job Lots; it comes in a small (1" x 2.5") plastic tray that you open and leave on the window sill or under the baseboard or wherever, and it really worked great. All the ants were gone in about 48 hours and they did not come back at all for the rest of the year. Of course, now that we're infested again, I can't remember the name of it. So I'm going to try your remedy instead! :icon_happy:
Re: Ant REMEDY - This works like a charm!
Earwig control A key element of an earwig management program is trapping. Place numerous traps throughout the yard, hiding the traps near shrubbery and ground cover plantings or against fences. A low-sided can, such as a cat food or tuna fish can, with 1/2 inch of oil in the bottom makes an excellent trap. Fish oil such as tuna fish oil is very attractive to earwigs, or vegetable oil with a drop of bacon grease can be used. These traps are most effective if sunk into the ground so the top of the can is at soil level. Dump captured earwigs and refill cans with oil.
Other common types of traps are a rolled-up newspaper, corrugated cardboard, bamboo tubes, or a short piece of hose. Place these traps on the soil near plants just before dark and shake accumulated earwigs out into a pail of soapy water in the morning. Earwigs can also be dropped into a sturdy plastic bag and crushed. Continue these procedures every day until you are no longer catching earwigs.
Re: Ant REMEDY - This works like a charm!
Baby powder in the windowsills and door jambs works too. They won't cross it because of the little fine hairs on their legs.
Re: Ant REMEDY - This works like a charm!
It really does work! I haven't seen an ant in days, and I swear, the colony was eradicated in 24 hours.
Re: Ant REMEDY - This works like a charm!
We are being invaded by a billion grasshoppers outside. You can't walk without a hundred of them jumping on you. Got any remedies for that?
