I dug over the flower beds last week.
The next day I found a few ants on the bathroom window ledge. We live in a
bungalow, the kitchen is on the same wall as the bathroom. Killed the
bathroom ants, they have not come back there.
Since then we have been finding a few ants in the kitchen, always in the
same place but not everyday.
For a few nights I've left a plate out with sugar on it. This to attract the
ants and lead me to where they are coming from. Not an ant in sight!
We are very clean, but crumbs in a kitchen are unavoidable.
I've just given the ant area a very good bleaching.
The weather here has been very mild, but it has ****ed it down every day.
I've read that ants do not like getting wet and will go into a house when it
rains for 40 days and 40 nights.

The main question is: has anybody else had an ant problem?

On 21/03/2017 18:22, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
I dug over the flower beds last week.
The next day I found a few ants on the bathroom window ledge. We live in a
bungalow, the kitchen is on the same wall as the bathroom. Killed the
bathroom ants, they have not come back there.
Since then we have been finding a few ants in the kitchen, always in the
same place but not everyday.
For a few nights I've left a plate out with sugar on it. This to attract the
ants and lead me to where they are coming from. Not an ant in sight!
We are very clean, but crumbs in a kitchen are unavoidable.
I've just given the ant area a very good bleaching.
The weather here has been very mild, but it has ****ed it down every day.
I've read that ants do not like getting wet and will go into a house when it
rains for 40 days and 40 nights.

The main question is: has anybody else had an ant problem?



Last year. A few occasionally in the kitchen. Went on for months.
Eventually I located a nest outside around the side of my house. Ant
Stop put an end to it. I should have looked harder, earlier.

Anything you do in the Kitchen is just a stop gap, I don't think
cleanliness makes that much difference. Spray poisons in the kitchen
will stop them temporarily but you really need to search and destroy the
nest.

I will probably go around outside my house with AntStop soon just as a
precaution.

Nick wrote:
On 21/03/2017 18:22, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
I dug over the flower beds last week.
The next day I found a few ants on the bathroom window ledge. We
live in a bungalow, the kitchen is on the same wall as the bathroom.
Killed the bathroom ants, they have not come back there.
Since then we have been finding a few ants in the kitchen, always in
the same place but not everyday.
For a few nights I've left a plate out with sugar on it. This to
attract the ants and lead me to where they are coming from. Not an
ant in sight! We are very clean, but crumbs in a kitchen are unavoidable.
I've just given the ant area a very good bleaching.
The weather here has been very mild, but it has ****ed it down every
day. I've read that ants do not like getting wet and will go into a
house when it rains for 40 days and 40 nights.

The main question is: has anybody else had an ant problem?



Last year. A few occasionally in the kitchen. Went on for months.
Eventually I located a nest outside around the side of my house. Ant
Stop put an end to it. I should have looked harder, earlier.

Anything you do in the Kitchen is just a stop gap, I don't think
cleanliness makes that much difference. Spray poisons in the kitchen
will stop them temporarily but you really need to search and destroy
the nest.

I will probably go around outside my house with AntStop soon just as a
precaution.

I've looked all around the outside of the house. I've also looked in the
flower bed that I dug over. Not a single ant in sight.
I've looked everywhere in the house, not a single ant.
I have saved the link to Ant Stop. Cheers.

On 21/03/2017 19:11, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
Nick wrote:
On 21/03/2017 18:22, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
I dug over the flower beds last week.
The next day I found a few ants on the bathroom window ledge. We
live in a bungalow, the kitchen is on the same wall as the bathroom.
Killed the bathroom ants, they have not come back there.
Since then we have been finding a few ants in the kitchen, always in
the same place but not everyday.
For a few nights I've left a plate out with sugar on it. This to
attract the ants and lead me to where they are coming from. Not an
ant in sight! We are very clean, but crumbs in a kitchen are unavoidable.
I've just given the ant area a very good bleaching.
The weather here has been very mild, but it has ****ed it down every
day. I've read that ants do not like getting wet and will go into a
house when it rains for 40 days and 40 nights.

The main question is: has anybody else had an ant problem?



Last year. A few occasionally in the kitchen. Went on for months.
Eventually I located a nest outside around the side of my house. Ant
Stop put an end to it. I should have looked harder, earlier.

Anything you do in the Kitchen is just a stop gap, I don't think
cleanliness makes that much difference. Spray poisons in the kitchen
will stop them temporarily but you really need to search and destroy
the nest.

I will probably go around outside my house with AntStop soon just as a
precaution.

I've looked all around the outside of the house. I've also looked in the
flower bed that I dug over. Not a single ant in sight.
I've looked everywhere in the house, not a single ant.
I have saved the link to Ant Stop. Cheers.


Get the big cylinder of AntStop Granules not the little trap things.

I think because it is early in the year the nest may be small and so
hard to spot. Just sprinkle the granules all around the house, hopefully
that will get them.

However keep looking in the future just in case. If they do come back
try a different poison.

Nick wrote:
On 21/03/2017 19:11, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
Nick wrote:
On 21/03/2017 18:22, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
I dug over the flower beds last week.
The next day I found a few ants on the bathroom window ledge. We
live in a bungalow, the kitchen is on the same wall as the
bathroom. Killed the bathroom ants, they have not come back there.
Since then we have been finding a few ants in the kitchen, always
in the same place but not everyday.
For a few nights I've left a plate out with sugar on it. This to
attract the ants and lead me to where they are coming from. Not an
ant in sight! We are very clean, but crumbs in a kitchen are
unavoidable. I've just given the ant area a very good bleaching.
The weather here has been very mild, but it has ****ed it down
every day. I've read that ants do not like getting wet and will go
into a house when it rains for 40 days and 40 nights.

The main question is: has anybody else had an ant problem?



Last year. A few occasionally in the kitchen. Went on for months.
Eventually I located a nest outside around the side of my house. Ant
Stop put an end to it. I should have looked harder, earlier.

Anything you do in the Kitchen is just a stop gap, I don't think
cleanliness makes that much difference. Spray poisons in the kitchen
will stop them temporarily but you really need to search and destroy
the nest.

I will probably go around outside my house with AntStop soon just
as a precaution.

I've looked all around the outside of the house. I've also looked in
the flower bed that I dug over. Not a single ant in sight.
I've looked everywhere in the house, not a single ant.
I have saved the link to Ant Stop. Cheers.


Get the big cylinder of AntStop Granules not the little trap things.

I think because it is early in the year the nest may be small and so
hard to spot. Just sprinkle the granules all around the house,
hopefully that will get them.

However keep looking in the future just in case. If they do come back
try a different poison.

I'll give it a crack.
Is this stuff okay when it rains?

On 21/03/2017 18:22, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:

I dug over the flower beds last week.
The next day I found a few ants on the bathroom window ledge. We live in a
bungalow, the kitchen is on the same wall as the bathroom. Killed the
bathroom ants, they have not come back there.

The odd ones will scout around and if they find anything a small line of
ants will develop until the food source is entirely consumed.

Since then we have been finding a few ants in the kitchen, always in the
same place but not everyday.

They are en route to something else. Find out what.

For a few nights I've left a plate out with sugar on it. This to attract the
ants and lead me to where they are coming from. Not an ant in sight!

This is a very bad idea. If they find a serious food source you will
have more difficulty getting rid of them. We had a problem not unlike
the one you describe with a glass food jar containing candied peel which
had an ant sized gap in one corner of what was supposed to be an
airtight seal. The result was a roughly 1 to 1 mix of peel and ants by
the time we found it after only a couple of days.

We are very clean, but crumbs in a kitchen are unavoidable.
I've just given the ant area a very good bleaching.

The weather here has been very mild, but it has ****ed it down every day.
I've read that ants do not like getting wet and will go into a house when it
rains for 40 days and 40 nights.

Find the nest nearest the kitchen and offer it some ant bait if you
must. There are many ants nests in a garden you can't kill them all.

The main question is: has anybody else had an ant problem?

Find and eliminate the food source they are raiding in the kitchen and
they will stop coming. You may need to clean the surfaces since ants
follow scent trails to find food sites previously visited by workers.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

"Mr Pounder Esquire" Wrote in message:
I dug over the flower beds last week.
The next day I found a few ants on the bathroom window ledge. We live in a
bungalow, the kitchen is on the same wall as the bathroom. Killed the
bathroom ants, they have not come back there.
Since then we have been finding a few ants in the kitchen, always in the
same place but not everyday.
For a few nights I've left a plate out with sugar on it. This to attract the
ants and lead me to where they are coming from. Not an ant in sight!
We are very clean, but crumbs in a kitchen are unavoidable.
I've just given the ant area a very good bleaching.
The weather here has been very mild, but it has ****ed it down every day.
I've read that ants do not like getting wet and will go into a house when it
rains for 40 days and 40 nights.

The main question is: has anybody else had an ant problem?





I have had ant problems in last three properties!
The only thing I've found to cure a bad attack is Nippon Ant
Killer Liquid. You put this on a ceramic tile in the path of the
ant run. The ants come and eat it and carry it back to the
nest.
For a bad infestation this can take a month of repeated
applications. Fresh liquid placed each evening.

Phil
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TheChief wrote:
"Mr Pounder Esquire" Wrote in message:
I dug over the flower beds last week.
The next day I found a few ants on the bathroom window ledge. We
live in a bungalow, the kitchen is on the same wall as the bathroom.
Killed the bathroom ants, they have not come back there.
Since then we have been finding a few ants in the kitchen, always in
the same place but not everyday.
For a few nights I've left a plate out with sugar on it. This to
attract the ants and lead me to where they are coming from. Not an
ant in sight!
We are very clean, but crumbs in a kitchen are unavoidable.
I've just given the ant area a very good bleaching.
The weather here has been very mild, but it has ****ed it down every
day. I've read that ants do not like getting wet and will go into a
house when it rains for 40 days and 40 nights.

The main question is: has anybody else had an ant problem?





I have had ant problems in last three properties!
The only thing I've found to cure a bad attack is Nippon Ant
Killer Liquid. You put this on a ceramic tile in the path of the
ant run. The ants come and eat it and carry it back to the
nest.
For a bad infestation this can take a month of repeated
applications. Fresh liquid placed each evening.

Phil

I can't find out where the things are coming from!
When/if I do I'll try your suggestion.
Thanks for your reply.

Martin Brown wrote:
On 21/03/2017 18:22, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:

I dug over the flower beds last week.
The next day I found a few ants on the bathroom window ledge. We
live in a bungalow, the kitchen is on the same wall as the bathroom.
Killed the bathroom ants, they have not come back there.

The odd ones will scout around and if they find anything a small line
of ants will develop until the food source is entirely consumed.

Since then we have been finding a few ants in the kitchen, always in
the same place but not everyday.

They are en route to something else. Find out what.

For a few nights I've left a plate out with sugar on it. This to
attract the ants and lead me to where they are coming from. Not an
ant in sight!

This is a very bad idea. If they find a serious food source you will
have more difficulty getting rid of them. We had a problem not unlike
the one you describe with a glass food jar containing candied peel
which had an ant sized gap in one corner of what was supposed to be an
airtight seal. The result was a roughly 1 to 1 mix of peel and ants by
the time we found it after only a couple of days.

The plate with the sugar on was on the other side of the kitchen.
I've yet to see an ant on this side of the kitchen.

We are very clean, but crumbs in a kitchen are unavoidable.
I've just given the ant area a very good bleaching.

The weather here has been very mild, but it has ****ed it down every
day. I've read that ants do not like getting wet and will go into a
house when it rains for 40 days and 40 nights.

Find the nest nearest the kitchen and offer it some ant bait if you
must. There are many ants nests in a garden you can't kill them all.

If only I could find just one nest!

The main question is: has anybody else had an ant problem?

Find and eliminate the food source they are raiding in the kitchen and
they will stop coming. You may need to clean the surfaces since ants
follow scent trails to find food sites previously visited by workers.

Yes.
I've used plenty of Domestos on all of the worktops and in the cupboards.

Something I cannot see these days, but if you have a concrete floor they do
seem to find ways up through cracks.
Brian

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"Mr Pounder Esquire" wrote in message
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I dug over the flower beds last week.
The next day I found a few ants on the bathroom window ledge. We live in a
bungalow, the kitchen is on the same wall as the bathroom. Killed the
bathroom ants, they have not come back there.
Since then we have been finding a few ants in the kitchen, always in the
same place but not everyday.
For a few nights I've left a plate out with sugar on it. This to attract
the ants and lead me to where they are coming from. Not an ant in sight!
We are very clean, but crumbs in a kitchen are unavoidable.
I've just given the ant area a very good bleaching.
The weather here has been very mild, but it has ****ed it down every day.
I've read that ants do not like getting wet and will go into a house when
it rains for 40 days and 40 nights.

The main question is: has anybody else had an ant problem?

On 21/03/2017 21:28, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
Martin Brown wrote:
On 21/03/2017 18:22, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:

For a few nights I've left a plate out with sugar on it. This to
attract the ants and lead me to where they are coming from. Not an
ant in sight!

This is a very bad idea. If they find a serious food source you will
have more difficulty getting rid of them. We had a problem not unlike
the one you describe with a glass food jar containing candied peel
which had an ant sized gap in one corner of what was supposed to be an
airtight seal. The result was a roughly 1 to 1 mix of peel and ants by
the time we found it after only a couple of days.

The plate with the sugar on was on the other side of the kitchen.
I've yet to see an ant on this side of the kitchen.

You are going about it the wrong way. You put the (poison) bait as close
to the door as possible and use something other than highly refined
sugar so that they can smell it. The last thing you want is a long line
of ants trekking across your kitchen floor.

ISTR some of our university halls of residence had pharaoh ants which
proved impossible to dislodge no matter what level of fumigation and
other techniques were tried. The boiler room cockroaches were worst.

Find the nest nearest the kitchen and offer it some ant bait if you
must. There are many ants nests in a garden you can't kill them all.

If only I could find just one nest!

It is probably still quite small as yet, but look along the house
brickwork for a small hole and a pile of sand.

The main question is: has anybody else had an ant problem?

Find and eliminate the food source they are raiding in the kitchen and
they will stop coming. You may need to clean the surfaces since ants
follow scent trails to find food sites previously visited by workers.

Yes.
I've used plenty of Domestos on all of the worktops and in the cupboards.

You really need to find the food source they are scouting for and/or put
some more attractive poison bait where they can easily find it.

--
Regards,
Martin Brown

On 21/03/2017 19:41, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:


I'll give it a crack.
Is this stuff okay when it rains?


I have always assumed not. I wait until it looks dry for a few days and
then sprinkle it in the evening.

I have also tried "Nippon Ant Killer Liquid". This seemed better because
it was easier to spread around. Last year it wiped out a large nest with
one shake.

However I suspect ants build immunity to specific poisons. So it is
worth trying one for a bit and changing the next time you try. I
sometimes use "Nippon Ant Killer Powder" for variety.

On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 18:22:15 -0000, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:

The main question is: has anybody else had an ant problem?

Ants? Oh yes, I remember them. Don't have ants up here.

--
Cheers
Dave.

In message l.net,
Dave Liquorice writes
On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 18:22:15 -0000, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:

The main question is: has anybody else had an ant problem?

Ants? Oh yes, I remember them. Don't have ants up here.

grin +1

We rarely see ants, or snails, or slugs. We have various hostas in the
garden and, down south, they would be shredded. Up here in
Aberdeenshire, it just doesn't happen. The other side of that coin is
-3.7 and snow earlier this morning.
--
Graeme

On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 10:21:56 +0000, Graeme wrote:

The main question is: has anybody else had an ant problem?

Ants? Oh yes, I remember them. Don't have ants up here.

grin +1

We rarely see ants, or snails, or slugs.

Zero ants, small rams horn type snails only. Slugs, big black ones,
2+ " long, you don't want to catch one with the strimmer... They tend
to stick to the unmown and ungrazed part of the in bye rather than
invade the "garden".

We have various hostas in the garden and, down south, they would be
shredded.

Lillies for us, lilly beatle larva would have 'em down south. Not up
here,

The other side of that coin is -3.7 and snow earlier this morning.

4 to 5" this morning but thawing, only just got to 0C overnight and
it's 2 C now.


--
Cheers
Dave.

Huge used his keyboard to write :
On 2017-03-22, Dave Liquorice wrote:
On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 18:22:15 -0000, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:

The main question is: has anybody else had an ant problem?

Ants? Oh yes, I remember them. Don't have ants up here.

They're all here. Sandy soil - it's a nightmare.

Big garden with soil on top of thick clay, on N/W Yorks boundary and we
get lots of them in the garden. We were only once troubled by them in
the house, built on a solid concrete raft. They were near the fridge
three years ago. Sprinkling Nippon powder under it quickly fixed that.

Nick wrote:
On 21/03/2017 19:41, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:


I'll give it a crack.
Is this stuff okay when it rains?


I have always assumed not. I wait until it looks dry for a few days
and then sprinkle it in the evening.

I have also tried "Nippon Ant Killer Liquid". This seemed better
because it was easier to spread around. Last year it wiped out a
large nest with one shake.

However I suspect ants build immunity to specific poisons. So it is
worth trying one for a bit and changing the next time you try. I
sometimes use "Nippon Ant Killer Powder" for variety.

After using loads of bleach and leaving it on all night I've not (yet) seen
an ant.
When/if, it stops slashing it down I'll go down on my knees and inspect
around the house.

TheChief wrote:
"Mr Pounder Esquire" Wrote in message:
TheChief wrote:
"Mr Pounder Esquire" Wrote in
message:
I dug over the flower beds last week.
The next day I found a few ants on the bathroom window ledge. We
live in a bungalow, the kitchen is on the same wall as the
bathroom. Killed the bathroom ants, they have not come back there.
Since then we have been finding a few ants in the kitchen, always
in the same place but not everyday.
For a few nights I've left a plate out with sugar on it. This to
attract the ants and lead me to where they are coming from. Not an
ant in sight!
We are very clean, but crumbs in a kitchen are unavoidable.
I've just given the ant area a very good bleaching.
The weather here has been very mild, but it has ****ed it down
every day. I've read that ants do not like getting wet and will go
into a house when it rains for 40 days and 40 nights.

The main question is: has anybody else had an ant problem?





I have had ant problems in last three properties!
The only thing I've found to cure a bad attack is Nippon Ant
Killer Liquid. You put this on a ceramic tile in the path of the
ant run. The ants come and eat it and carry it back to the
nest.
For a bad infestation this can take a month of repeated
applications. Fresh liquid placed each evening.

Phil

I can't find out where the things are coming from!
When/if I do I'll try your suggestion.
Thanks for your reply.





You don't actually need to know where they are coming from, just
identify a regular "run".
If you watch you will see that they tend to follow an established
route.
Place the Nippon gel on a non-absorbent surface right in that run.
Also, make sure there aren't any other food sources, so the gel is
the most attractive food around.

Phil

If they comeback, instead of killing them I'll look for their point of
entry.
In the past I've just killed them.
Thanks.

"Mr Pounder Esquire" Wrote in message:
TheChief wrote:
"Mr Pounder Esquire" Wrote in message:
I dug over the flower beds last week.
The next day I found a few ants on the bathroom window ledge. We
live in a bungalow, the kitchen is on the same wall as the bathroom.
Killed the bathroom ants, they have not come back there.
Since then we have been finding a few ants in the kitchen, always in
the same place but not everyday.
For a few nights I've left a plate out with sugar on it. This to
attract the ants and lead me to where they are coming from. Not an
ant in sight!
We are very clean, but crumbs in a kitchen are unavoidable.
I've just given the ant area a very good bleaching.
The weather here has been very mild, but it has ****ed it down every
day. I've read that ants do not like getting wet and will go into a
house when it rains for 40 days and 40 nights.

The main question is: has anybody else had an ant problem?





I have had ant problems in last three properties!
The only thing I've found to cure a bad attack is Nippon Ant
Killer Liquid. You put this on a ceramic tile in the path of the
ant run. The ants come and eat it and carry it back to the
nest.
For a bad infestation this can take a month of repeated
applications. Fresh liquid placed each evening.

Phil

I can't find out where the things are coming from!
When/if I do I'll try your suggestion.
Thanks for your reply.





You don't actually need to know where they are coming from, just
identify a regular "run".
If you watch you will see that they tend to follow an established
route.
Place the Nippon gel on a non-absorbent surface right in that run.
Also, make sure there aren't any other food sources, so the gel is
the most attractive food around.

Phil
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On Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:58:06 -0000, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:

Nick wrote:
On 21/03/2017 19:41, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:


I'll give it a crack.
Is this stuff okay when it rains?


I have always assumed not. I wait until it looks dry for a few days
and then sprinkle it in the evening.

I have also tried "Nippon Ant Killer Liquid". This seemed better
because it was easier to spread around. Last year it wiped out a
large nest with one shake.

However I suspect ants build immunity to specific poisons. So it is
worth trying one for a bit and changing the next time you try. I
sometimes use "Nippon Ant Killer Powder" for variety.

After using loads of bleach and leaving it on all night I've not (yet) seen
an ant.
When/if, it stops slashing it down I'll go down on my knees and inspect
around the house.

I had ants in the lounge, but only on 1 day a year. They'd appear on a warm,
sunny humid day to swarm and then gone.
I could see the approx. place but always too late to see them actually
crawling out, mainly because they weren't in sight until they'd all swarmed.
Eventually I got rid of them by going round the outside of the house in dry
weather to spot the little heaps of fine soil, then raking it out a bit and
putting powder in.
Had to be careful as the small heaps with bigger holes were bees and I
didn't want to kill those.
--
Peter.
The gods will stay away
whilst religions hold sway

On 23/03/2017 08:46, PeterC wrote:

Had to be careful as the small heaps with bigger holes were bees and I
didn't want to kill those.

Last autumn I was preparing some ground to lay grass. I saw a large
bumble bee sleepily crawl away from the spot where I had been picking
weeds out with my hands. I smiled and let it wake up and eventually fly
away. It was only later that I realised that the ******* had stung me.
My whole arm swelled up in what they call a "large scale local
reaction". I now have a 10% change of anaphylactic shock the next time
I'm stung.

From now on, ants or bees, it is kill them, kill them all!

En el artículo , PeterC
escribió:

I could see the approx. place but always too late to see them actually
crawling out, mainly because they weren't in sight until they'd all swarmed.
Eventually I got rid of them by going round the outside of the house in dry

I wait until they've all swarmed, then hoover them up along with some
ant killer. Then find the source hole and dust that with powder.

If you can get the queens, that's a good thing too.

--
(\_/)
(='.'=) "Between two evils, I always pick
(")_(") the one I never tried before." - Mae West

En el artículo , Huge
escribió:

I poured enough toxic chemicals under there



to cause another Love Canal.

I was reading about that a while back. Horrific. Not quite Bhopal, but
not far off in terms of corporate negligence.

--
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(")_(") the one I never tried before." - Mae West

On 21/03/2017 18:22, Mr Pounder Esquire wrote:
I dug over the flower beds last week.
The next day I found a few ants on the bathroom window ledge.


We live in a bungalow

So you have nothing upstairs and the more intelligent species is taking
over your place.

--
Adam

On Thursday, 23 March 2017 10:10:40 UTC, Mike Tomlinson wrote:
En el artÃ*culo , PeterC
escribió:

I could see the approx. place but always too late to see them actually
crawling out, mainly because they weren't in sight until they'd all swarmed.
Eventually I got rid of them by going round the outside of the house in dry

I wait until they've all swarmed, then hoover them up along with some
ant killer. Then find the source hole and dust that with powder.

If you can get the queens, that's a good thing too.

The ones that fly are all queens/males.
They are parthogenetic.