Gene&Ginny
North Kingstown, RI
Senior Member
Joined: 03/16/2004
View Profile
 Online
|
93Cobra2771 wrote: The poison is doing it's work and they are dying. You are winning. :-)
That is what it sounds like to me too. Maybe a pan of water would catch the falling ones to keep it cleaner on the floor.
... (Dis-oriented) ... LOL
BTW: Bob is everyone's uncle .... at least in spirit. 
Gene and DW Ginny
2008 Toyota 4Runner 4.7L V8 w/factory towing option
2002 Sunline Solaris Lite T2363
Reese Dual Cam Straight Line HP Sway Control
Proud member of the Sunline Club
|
Rvpapa
Alberta , Can.
Senior Member
Joined: 08/07/2002
View Profile
|
Bob, if you had been swilling down borax & sugar water for the last five days you would have trouble walking let alone hanging on the ceiling. :-)
Art.
|
lumpy790
York, SC
Full Member
Joined: 06/23/2012
View Profile
 Offline
|
we have had good results sprinkling some instant grits on the mounds ... couple days they are gone
Tow vehicle E450 Moto Hose Box Van
06 Victory Lane TH
YZ250 Smoker Supermoto
YZ450F
86 TY250 trials bike
|
rast
Mascotte Fl.
Full Member
Joined: 03/03/2007
View Profile
Offline
|
Eggs that were previously laid are hatching.
|
Gene&Ginny
North Kingstown, RI
Senior Member
Joined: 03/16/2004
View Profile
Online
|
Here is an interesting link on Borax effect on ants. LINK Try Borax and cat food. 
|
|
|
gamera
Stone Mountain, GA, USA
Full Member
Joined: 09/04/2002
View Profile
Offline
|
I've used a product called Orange Guard (http://www.orangeguard.com/) and it not only kills them but keeps the ants from coming back. Works immediately and keeps on working. It's a bit oily, but I'd rather have that than ants!
Sally, 4 dogs & a parrot
22' ISATA Sport Sedan
|
BobsYourUncle
Surrey, BC Canada
Senior Member
Joined: 12/12/2003
View Profile
Offline
|
Another update..... Sigh........
gads maybe I should just set fire to this thing....
2 days ago they came back with a vengeance. they were everywhere, falling out of the fan bezel, onto the toilet, on the floor, into my tub. Many many dozens of them.  Arrrgh! Get out of my life!!!!!
But I noticed for the most part they were acting strange. The ones that fell in the tub would find a blob of water and die there, the ones on the floor moved slowly. I picked them up and dropped them into the tub where they just laid there.
Yesterday same story, I'm ready to set fire to this bloody thing.
I got up today and looked. Hmmm one ant.
Squash!
Around noon a couple more. Later on a few more but the numbers are greatly reduced. They seem "out of it" I did some reading and it appears that they are suffering from being poisoned.
GOOD!
Today I got up and hmmmmmmm I don't see anything.
A while later, a couple stragglers. Later today I got maybe a total of a dozen, most of which wound up in the tub and just laid there in the standing water puddles.
Maybe I am getting somewhere.
I have noticed some young ones scurrying around, likely a fresh hatch from about the time I poisoned them. Now I wonder if the young 'uns are clean or have the residual poison in them.....
Found one in my bed this morning after I got up - Ick! It was dead. I had beans last night, maybe it .... oh well I won't say but it was dead.
Most of them I pick up and toss into the tub where they sit and do nothing until I turn on the shower and flush them away.
I will be really glad when this ordeal is over. Or I get a new TT!!
2007 GMC 3500 dually ext. cab 4X4 LBZ
Duramax / Allison
Fire Red
95 Sportsmen 25.5' TT
81 Citation 25' "Tail dragger" "Under construction"
"Workin' man's rig"
Bob's Trucks
Check Out My Rebuild Project
Project Feedback
|
BobsYourUncle
Surrey, BC Canada
Senior Member
Joined: 12/12/2003
View Profile
Offline
|
I hate ants
|
smkettner
Southern California
Senior Member
Joined: 03/21/2005
View Profile
Good Sam RV Club Member
|
Have you opened the bezel? Time to strike on their home turf.... get some bait up in there.
2001 F150 SuperCrew
2006 Keystone Springdale 249FWBHLS
675 watts solar
Send a PM if I missed something
|
BobsYourUncle
Surrey, BC Canada
Senior Member
Joined: 12/12/2003
View Profile
Offline
|
smkettner wrote:Have you opened the bezel? Time to strike on their home turf.... get some bait up in there.
No I haven't opened the bezel yet. 3 days ago they came back with a vengeance. 2 days ago was about the same. Yesterday I killed only a few and saw very little activity. They were not going near the bait except for about half a dozen that either crawled right into it or fell from the ceiling into it and died there.
Quite a few fell into the tub and died in little bits of standing water. They had to crawl into he water so I'm thinking they have consumed some bait.
Today there is no sign of them including the ones I saw crawling around inside the light globes.
I'm leaving here this afternoon to go home for tomorrow. It's my wifes birthday. I'm coming back Tuesday morning so I'll how the situation looks then.
Hopefully they will be all dead.
|
|
|
