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Ants!!!
2007-09-25, 12:04 PM #1
So yeah... in Phoenix, almost everyone gets ants in their kitchen during the summer. It's just a thing that happens. Usually you can keep them down by being very clean, and for the most part, we never have major problems at my house.

This morning, I made some tea and everything was fine. I hopped on the computer for a couple hours, and after a while decided I wanted some more tea, and maybe something to eat. I went back in the kitchen.

****ING ANTS EVERYWHERE!

Now I'll admit, the kitchen isn't totally clean right now. There's a few dirty dishes in the sink, a butter dish was left out, but that's about it. But- well, see for yoursef:
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2007-09-25, 12:05 PM #2
Oh uh, so post your kitchen!

Or bugs!
2007-09-25, 12:13 PM #3
OMFG ANTS
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2007-09-25, 12:17 PM #4
I have a yearly lady bug infestation.

No ****.

I'll wake up one morning in the summer and there will be like 500 of them in my bedroom. I usually just get a vacuum and vacuum them all up. :/
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2007-09-25, 12:31 PM #5
Lady bugs are cute though. You should relocate them instead of slaughtering them.

I wish we still had lady bugs in phoenix. :(
2007-09-25, 12:32 PM #6
They aren't cute when they eat through your siding and infiltrate your bedroom. :/
2007-09-25, 12:35 PM #7
I see no lady bugs.
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2007-09-25, 12:53 PM #8
I have a wasp nest in the wall right outside my bedroom window. Until it started getting a bit colder I'd wake up every morning with about 5 wasps buzzing around my room even though the window was shut. I still can't figure out how they were getting in :(

And they're in an annoying place, my father and I tried squirting this foam wasp killer stuff from the loft down into the place we thought they were coming from but it didn't help, they're actually in the wall somehow and the only way to get to it would be a ladder to go right up to the hole but nobody wants to do that :P
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2007-09-25, 12:55 PM #9
imagine those pictures, but with 50% less ants, but 500% bigger ants. i had a carpenter ant problem in my room this summer, and they swarmed if i left out even 1 can of soda/pop.
2007-09-25, 1:10 PM #10
Bla! I hate ants! We had a ant problem at our house (not quite that bad, though).

You need one of those ant killer formulas that the ants eat and take back to the nest.

I used that with a little success. The most successful bit was going around my properties (within about 50 yards of my house) and finding the nest. There were two, one in a lumber pile in my storage shed, and the other was in a pile of bricks in the corner of my property. I hosed both with insecticide - no more ant problem.
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2007-09-25, 1:25 PM #11
Even that doesn't work with fire ants. Those things are unstoppable.
2007-09-25, 1:25 PM #12
I had an ant infestation this summer... thankfully for the most part they remained on the ground but once in a while they'd get up on counters or I'd see a dozen wang it around my desk. I'd usually the slam my hand down until they all ran off. When my hand started hurting, I started drowning the little ****s in hertel spray cleanamajigy thing and eventually there were none anymore.

I defeated the ants.
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2007-09-25, 2:16 PM #13
We have ants fairly regularly (not nearly as thick as those) but they never go for any of the crumbs or spills on our counters. They just crawl around. For awhile we put out poison for them, but they never ate it so we stopped bothering.
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2007-09-25, 2:58 PM #14
We have ants at my apartment as well. Terro traps work pretty well as far as attracting and killing them goes, but it doesn't get rid of the nest, so they just keep coming back. I've tried home remedies like wiping everything down with white vinegar and peppermint, but no dice. I think I'm going to try and pour cinnamon all along the outside next. The little bastards are coming in through the dishwasher drain too, so there's really nothing I can do about that.
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2007-09-25, 3:07 PM #15
Originally posted by Vincent Valentine:
You should relocate them instead of slaughtering them.

Open the vacuum bag out back? They'll just get back in, yes, but if it isn't them it would be others instead.
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2007-09-25, 3:11 PM #16
a tonne of wood ants in my cottage this year. big suckers, too. piles of sawdust everywhere and mmMMmmmM tasty larvae!
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2007-09-25, 3:14 PM #17
Originally posted by Vincent Valentine:
Lady bugs are cute though. You should relocate them instead of slaughtering them.

I wish we still had lady bugs in phoenix. :(


They emit this horrible smell though. I think its a defense mechanism of some sort.
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2007-09-25, 3:46 PM #18
Eat them!
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2007-09-25, 4:01 PM #19
So, when I was younger I went to school (3rd grade), opened my backpack, and these huge fireants came pouring out of my bag. It was pretty scary...especially for the girl next to me. I'm surprised I wasn't called ant-girl or something throughout the next years of my life.

As I'm in Albuquerque, we get the same ant problem. My boyfriend and I recently found out the best way to keep them out - cayenne pepper, chile pepper seeds, chile powder...basically spice that has chile in it. We poured that over their little entryways and ta-da!, no more ants eating my cats' food. We also found that cleaning spray works wonders as an ant killing spray - it's much more instant and it smells good. >_>
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2007-09-25, 4:46 PM #20
capsaicin as an insect repellent? makes sense.
2007-09-25, 6:21 PM #21
My kitchen has an infestation of sexually curious dinosaurs.
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2007-09-25, 6:40 PM #22
I hope the stegasaurus likes it on top... :awesome:
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2007-09-25, 8:27 PM #23
Wow. It's not just the position of those dinos that makes it funny. Their expression/stance is priceless.
2007-09-25, 8:46 PM #24
I know, Vin!

There's actually an impressive array of positions that people have put them in over the past couple months. Karma sutra dinosaurs, anyone?
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2007-09-25, 9:00 PM #25
Eat them, Eat them all.
2007-09-25, 10:44 PM #26
My brother woke up one morning to find many tiny black dots on his ceiling. Upon closer inspection, they were baby spiders. He sat there with a vacuum cleaner all day, spitefully killing every baby spider he saw.
2007-09-25, 11:43 PM #27
Heh, that reminds me of my favorite thread ever. :)
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2007-09-25, 11:45 PM #28
I actually have a koala infestation in my igloo.

Cutest thing ever.
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2007-09-26, 12:17 AM #29
Cinnamon helps keeping them away and it smells nice.

It doesn't kill them, though.
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2007-09-26, 6:50 AM #30
We had an ant problem at my old house once and we got some kind of spray that you spray around the edges of all the floors in the kitchen and rooms connected to it. (including in the cabinets and such) kept them out pretty well.
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