"Robert Green" wrote in
:

My huge mulberry tree did not fruit this year. As a result about a
billon hungry little black sugar ants that used to feed on the fallen
berries came into my house searching for food. These little black
ants with banded abdomens that smell like citronella when crushed are
cunning. They travel long distances upside down and sideways, making
it almost impossible to track their entry points. I tried a lot of
commercial stuff without success.

Then, reading through old posts I saw that Norminn and some others
recommended Terro. I was out looking for a replacement toilet seat
that mysteriously cracked last night. At least two things a day break
down around here. Anyway, I got a pack of 9 traps from TruValue
(about $5) and set three out where I had been seeing the occasional
ant.

Four hours later two of the traps were filled with ants and a huge
parade was leading to each trap. I could see them, lined up like
little cows at a cattle trough, sucking the clear poison until their
abdomens were swollen. When one left the "feed line" another moved
right in to take it's place.

It was "Ant Crack." They walked through the Combat traps and ignored
the Raid bait. But they couldn't get enough Terro. They were
climbing all over themselves to get at it. This morning, only a few
stragglers remain. Hopefully, this will put an end to them.

Good tip, Norminn (and many others, going back to 2000).

FWIW, in today's NYT there's an article about a woman who poisoned
herself to death trying to rid her house of bedbugs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/ny...bugs-may-be-mo
re-dangerous-than-bites.html

When Lilah Gray started getting bitten by bedbugs, all she could
think of was getting rid of them. Her husband sprayed and saturated
their double-wide trailer home in Rocky Mount, N.C., with pesticides.
But convinced that she could still feel the bugs crawling on her, Ms.
Gray soaked a napkin with Hot Shot Bedbug and Flea Killer and applied
it directly to her chest, then soaked her hair in pesticide and put a
plastic bag over it.

Well, there's no accounting for stone cold crazy. Don't we have
posters here from Rocky Mount?

--
Bobby G.





It was "Ant Crack."

chuckle I'm sold. I'll try it next time needed.