Okay, I'm sitting here minding my own business... working away at e-mails, drinking my dr. pepper and getting my arm half chewed off by the puppy... when IT runs across the keyboard... one of them... those vile creatures that know no bounds of privacy... AN ANT!!!!!

Ya ya... I know what you're saying... "OOooooh wow... one little ant." But you see, that's what they all say... one little ant. The problem is, it's NEVER one little ant!

A minutes goes by and then I notice it... another demon creature! *THWAK* It dies... and another *THWAK* it semi-dies (twitching stage before death). I know what's happening, the line! They're forming the line! I rush downstairs, grab the ant poison from the garage, rush back up to my room and pour it into the window edge. The line is no more... they are dead, they will not return for at least a few months.

I return the poison to its proper place, throw the rubber gloves into the trashcan, and go to the kitchen to reward myself with an icecold dr. pepper (the one I had was warm and almost empty). I decide to put it in a glass with some icecubes so I reach up and get a glass from the cabinet, and set it down. Grab the dr. pepper from the ice-filled cooler, open it when suddenly I realize something is moving on my hand. AN ANT!!!!! I kill it and just think to myself "Oh well, probably just got on me from the desk and I didn't see it." WRONG! I look down at the glass I'm about to pour dr. pepper on and it's covered with the black demon creatures!

This time however, the poison is of no use. It's in the kitchen, near the silverware and where the dishes go by the sink. It's too risky. I wipe up as many as I can and dart for the pantry. I whip out a package of yeast, pour it into a lid, whip out some sugar, pour it into the lid, and then dart to the laundry room and sprinkle some borax on top. Mix with a toothpick... and wait... and here I sit... waiting for the vile black demon creatures to carry their fate back to the nest and doom their species from ever invading the kitchen through that crack again.

Moral of the story: Kill Ants.

With what materials is your house built? You might have termites :D :cartman:

My guess is our house is the result of a scientific experiment gone wrong when crossing a human habitat with an anthill. We know we have termites, but this is getting ridiculous... 3 days ago they were coming from a sliding door inside the house taking over any open cereal boxes in the pantry. And those theiving little b*beep*s ruined my box of Teddy Grahams!

Well you know what they say "If you kill an ant the ants will kill you"
I think we should all help JustinK to get rid of the evil in his house.I say we organize and army of people and break it down into division.I will be the commander of the Panzer division and JustinK will be 1st Infantry divions we will be needing some artillery any one willing to go into combat? And remeber we need only real man.

UNCLE SAM WANTS YOU!!!

Sorry....can't help.
Ants once wiped out my entire family.
Those memories haunt me still..........:bawling:

Funny... As I was reading this a rather large carpenter ant crawled by carrying another ant. I was at a loss whether to crush the bugger or not! Gave it a quick flick of the finger and sent it on it's way.

RAID
Ant Killer

Works pretty fast... makes em double up and also makes them lie on their back... after the battle of Ant Raid is done, you can view the battlefield and return the victor to its storage place... then vacuum the battlefield clean and await the next offense

:D :D

For now I'll stick with the poison that lasts about 2-4 months and the yeast/sugar/borax mixture that they drag back to the nest, feed on, then die. And of course since that ant died, the other ants see no use in letting poisoned food go to waste. :) So far they're all gone. I think the sponge I wiped'em out with in the kitchen wreaked enough that they couldn't stand it (nor could I, so I threw it out).


Sorry admins! Just went to the General Hosting category to see it got moved here... I open up 2 windows for each category and I guess I forgot which one I was in when I click it. Anyway, thanks for moving it. :)

maybe you could look into getting an ant eater as a pet off ebay LMAO!!!!!!!! :eek:

You guys are FREAKING ME OUT!!!!

Think of my family!!

PLEASE!!

ebay has animal auctions????????

Aloha
you guys should live in a tropical climate ;)
ants are not so bad they are here every day
now centipedes are what ya have to worry about here
like this one
http://www.fosec.de/animals/Medi/medism~1.jpg
but they get pretty big
have seen quite a few around a foot long
most common are around 8 inches
http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/arthropoda/uniramia/centipede.gif

thanks for the pictures...

* alpha drops the candy bar he was getting ready to open up


:D

yeah, the things you learn here, eh?

Originally posted by alpha
thanks for the pictures...

* alpha drops the candy bar he was getting ready to open up


:D

they found one out Ke'anae way about 18" long
yikes plus they bite really bad like a bad wasp sting

I used to have a big 12" centi for a pet kine and it got away in my friends house once
needles to say he was not so happy with me hehehehehe

i remember when i was on holiday a couple of years back in Lanzarote.
We had an ANT problem just outside the apartment on the patio, I had a great solution, since i couldnt sun bathe there because of all the ants SHAMPOO was the solution :-)

I commenced making a square of shampoo right around the perimeter of the patio, i just lay down a thin line right around the edge, up the wall and around the door, EVERYWHERE, like a little mini shampoo prison.

I killed all the ants inside the perimeter using simple newspaper technology, VOILLA mission complete, I lay down my sun lounger and began to soak in the rays.

awakening to find a little black barrier of ants around the perimeter that hadnt quite made it. :cool:

So here I am laughing about this post and go to take my shower and GASP! theres a GIANT SPIDER, inside the shower on the shower curtin , so here I am all soaped up eye to eyes with this Spider (I tell ya it was the size of a house lmao) yelling help meeeeeeeeee to my boyfriend (yes I know Im a wimp) for him to come get rid of it , and Im tellin ya it was cuz I made fun of this post that this happened to me LOL

Another ant invasion this morning. My room is safe for now, but the kitchen has basically become their territory. First my Teddy Grahams... now my french toast.... I resorted to pure rage violence. Now I wait for the wet dead ant covered countertop to dry so I can vacuum. I'd go for the shampoo technique, but the only kind I have left is some salon stuff and it smells.

I'm somewhate arachnophobic myself. Though most daddy longleg spiders don't scare me. I'm used to them and they kill off some ants and any other spiders. Now if they get to a place where I'm going to be, they die. But as long as they stay out of my way, I stay out of there's. My worst run in with a spider was when I lived over in Ventura, CA. Walked out side and something smacked me in the head (not talking bumped... it was big enough to make a smack sound). I felt the legs wiggling *spine chill* then I backed up. The string of webbing it was on hadn't broken. Went into the garage, grabbed a plastic yellow bat, and hit it into the neighbor's yard. The sound it made reminded me of one of those advertised bats for kids that makes the loud cracking sound when you hit anything off of it... don't want to run into another big one like that ever again.

Man this thread is freaking me out
actually the bug man is here for his quartlerly spraying
heheheh
I lived in Central America (Bay Islandsof Honduras Utila)
and the kids there used to go to the upper ball field and catch pet tarantula they would tak a littel string some chewed gum and drop it down these holes thousands and thousands of holes up there that I never knew what they were they drop the gum down bounce it up and down the tarantula finally gets pissed and bites it but his fangs stick in teh gum the little kid pulls it up and then has a pet
eeewwwww creapy.
the other funny thing we had there is all these blue land crabs tons of em all over the place they would climb into your room at night and crawl all over the floor making this loud clacky sound the road would be covered with em (no cars on hte island well 3 but they hardly run) so they would be all over.
and we had bats my one friends house that was an abandone hotel had so many bats he could not use the 1 corner of his room but the good side is it kept the bugs and mosquitos away and the horror stories of mosguitos you here about in central american jungles are true.

getting shivers thinking of stuff now

Farmer...I'll rise to the challenge! Make me General of the 8th Air Force. =)

I'll nuke the hell outta of 'em! :smash: :dgrin:

Ahh, bugs aren't scary.... I've got rats around my house that are bigger than kittens.... :)

Originally posted by Lacey
So here I am laughing about this post and go to take my shower and GASP! theres a GIANT SPIDER, inside the shower on the shower curtin , so here I am all soaped up eye to eyes with this Spider (I tell ya it was the size of a house lmao) yelling help meeeeeeeeee to my boyfriend (yes I know Im a wimp) for him to come get rid of it , and Im tellin ya it was cuz I made fun of this post that this happened to me LOL

Heh, I actually like spiders, watching one run around the wall just now, but you remined me of something that happened recently.

A friend and I are heading past my place on our way to meet up witth other friends for a night out, I decide to dive in and get changed. My pals waiting downstairs and I cant find a shirt I like. So I get a new one opened, put it on and rush downstairs. I'm standing in front of my friend discussing whether to take some booze with us and I notice hes got a strange look on his face, (he's a bit arachnophobic it turns out as well), he just points at my chest. I look down and theres a spider with a span about the size of my hand (I'm 6'4'' and got big hands) making its way out of the pocket! Without thinking I get it on my hand, grab the video camera, take it outside, film it on my hand for a size comparison and let it go!

I thought I'd post a still from the tape but now I cant find it:(

THREAD BROUGHT FROM THE DEAD

Pretty much like the ants!

Ok, so im sat in the living room minding my own business and i notice an ANT, its on the laminate flooring (i got rid of the carpet so i could see the little bishtards easily) (admittedly, spending £600 just so i could see the ants was a little excessive but hey, it worked!)

So I noticed one on the laminate, ran to the DIY cupboard in the kitchen and BAM, another ant on the floor, i quickly grabbed my ant removal utility pack (hammer, utility knife, mr muscle kitchen cleaner, thick bleach and my trusty silicone sealant)

firstly the one in the kitchen, its a solid tile floor so i bopped it with the hammer (ewww, nasty squish)

then ran to the living room, got the utility knife and went in for the torture, chopped it in half, noticed another one on the floor, grabbed my weights and rolled them towards it, SQUISH, made a nasty noise, also made for a VERY dead ant.

Then i noticed it THE LINE, it went up the cable by the fireplace and over to the wall, YES they were feeding off a small patch on the wallpaper where i had accidentally splashed by orange juice.

There was only one thing for it, the Hoover, got out my Dyson super strength multi cyclone state of the art cleaner and put on the slmline nozzle (usually enough to pick up a brick) hooray, just watching the little black demons shooting into the cleaner container then getting mangled by the cyclone was awesome revenge.

i traced them back to their hole, SILICONE sealant to the rescue, large amounts pumped in, i have never seen them eat through silicone sealant so thats pretty much why i use it.

then to the kitchen, there were more in the sauce cupboard spoiling it all, i quickly offloaded the sauces to the sink, there were probably about 30 in the cubboard, out came the kitchen cleaner, spray (dont worry about contamination) and i dont know how but it cleans the surface or bacteria and kills tha ants within seconds, even better is the stick to the cubpoard making for easy cleaning!.

Finally, I filled in every single gap in the kitchen and thus far JOB DONE

Ants be warned, i dont take well to infestations and will use torture and any means possible to remove you! (oh, one last point the ones you chop in half, put them in a lttle pile, they will come to collect them, just follow them one they have collected their dead and they will take you right back to their base !! muahaha

Darned ants ;)

grr, this is getting out of hand, even the mods are getting moderated now

:uzi: anon-e-mouse :smash:

:angel:

A few tips for ants.
Ants come in from outside.
Ants LOVE sweets and grease.
Ants don't like "PineSol" (or any cleaning solution made with Pine Tar. Look for the highest amount of this ingredient, when purchasing some)
Clean floor of infested room or area with a solution of about half PineSol, and half water. Yes, it will kill them, as well as keep more ants from comming.
Then go to the closest outside door to the infested room. This is probably where they are getting in. Next poor some PineSol in a straight line across the threshold, outside the door. (they won't cross this line) If you have some sweet smelling flowers near a window, you can sray some PineSol on the outside wall beneath the window to keep them from getting in that way. (I've actually seen them climb up an outside wall by a Peony bush and enter a kitchen window)
Enough of the 'aroma' will last on the surfaces you washed or sprayed so that you probably won't have anymore ants for a very long time.

aha, cheers, ill get checking outside see if theyre anywhere to be seen!

Originally posted by ATST
Then go to the closest outside door to the infested room. This is probably where they are getting in. Not necessarily through a door, especially if they're carpenter ants. They'll commonly make their entry to a house via a tree that overhangs and makes contact with the roof (or even with telephone or electrical wires that then leave a short distance to the house), or any point of wood-to-soil contact on the ground floor. Or a wood fence that makes contact with the wood portion of the house. Or maybe a stack of firewood leaning against the house... basically, make sure that theres nothing "organic" leading from the ground to a wood part of the house.

JayC, if anyone has carpenter ants (not the common kitchen variety) they need an exterminator. I was telling him about the kind commonly found in your kitchen.

lol, i mean this is the WebHostingTalk Lounge, anyways, there are always few ants here and there in my kitchen, but only for summer time, when its winter they all disappear :D

ok, another update, after my torture expedition etc... and removal using silicone sealant i havent had any more ants.

I checked outside and it was like they were encircling my house ready to take me down at any moment.

I have battled this by using Nippon Ant powder, it looks nasty and doesnt do much for the appearance of the house or garden but if it stops the ants then its staying!!

So lets see how things progress in the next few days !!

XTStrike

:fairy: Lord of the Ants

Ants are very common where I live and drop a crumb, they will come from everywhere. I used those "ant bombs" that you need to leave the house after you "set them off". Usually two hours is enough with the house all closed up.

I haven't had any ants inside for over 12 months now since the last "bombing" :beer:

looks like its worked, ill keep you all updated but i used Nippon ant powder and spray right around the house and noticed a couple of nests a few feet from the house that i have zapped with half a bottle of nippon

Im thinking i have wiped them out!, maybe another treatment tonight for sure!