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"Frank" wrote:
You forgot to mention that the ants are crawling across your scanner (they are on mine). Last year I used a shop vacuum to suck them all up. I sat for hours near where they were coming into my home and probably sucked up a thousand ants. They didn't come back for a couple months after that. (snip) If you want to get rid of them permanently, try the following tactic. Get a can of Lysol disinfectant spray (the smelly normal scent) and then find their nest. Use a thin metal rod to stir up the nest. Probe around underground to also disturb the nest there. Now wait until the warrior arts are swarming over the surface of the nest (give this time - you want most of the warrior ants on the surface). Once there are plenty of warrior ants on the surface, spray them liberally with the Lysol spray. Don't forget to spray the ground all around the nest to cover any warrior ants that have spread out to search for an enemy (by the way, watch out for these because they will immediately bite if they get on you). Ants use scent to identify each other. Once the warrior ants are covered with Lysol, they can no longer detect the identity scent (the Lysol spray also stings, driving them into a war frenzy). At this point, the warrior ants will consider all ants in the nest to be the enemy (including the queen ants) and will proceed to kill those other ants. Without food from the food gatherers, the warrior ants will eventually starve to death also. I mentioned earlier about how most warrior ants must be on the surface before spraying. This is the insure the warriors on the surface greatly outnumber those still underground. Otherwise, those underground will kill those you've sprayed on the surface, defeating your efforts. If this is done right, the nest will be permanently destroyed. After the mound washes away from rain or lawn watering, grass will start growing in the area again. I've used this tactic many times with great success. The only danger is the risk of a bite from warrior ants roaming away from the nest to search for the enemy. If you are bitten, it WILL be very uncomfortable. By the way, it is also amazing to watch thousands of warrior ants attacking each other in a frenzy of death. Some individual fights can last several hours. Dwight Stewart (W5NET) http://www.qsl.net/w5net/ |
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