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I woke up this morning feeling sad about the ants, picturing them shriveling up and dying alone in the walls or clumped in their nest or wherever else ants go to die. Dane tried to assure me that we took care of them for a long time; we fed them, gave them water and shelter. But it was time for us to devote our energy to more important tasks. Ant removal was the best way.
I was not entirely reassured.
Then we got in our shiny car and drove to Los Angeles for a pretty party in the rain. And when we came home, seven hours later, guess what was waiting on the kitchen counters to greet us?
If you guessed KEYS TO A NEW CAR, you’re wrong. If you guessed WINNING LOTTERY TICKET, you’re wrong. If you guessed INGREDIENTS TO MAKE DINNER, SEEING AS WE GOT HOME AT 7:00PM, you’d be wrong! And by now you’ve surely tired of guessing, so I’ll go ahead and reveal our mystery prize. It’s small, black, crawly, and follows a trail of thousands of other small black crawlies—it’s… ANTS! Coming in from a fresh new spot.
I have ceased to mourn for the ants. I’m back to wishing they were gone. And I’m pretty sure they will be, within seven to ten days. At which point I reserve the right to once again express a twinge of melancholy over their demise.
I had a terrible problem with ants a couple of times and there were some things that I was told to do by my dear old dad that helped.
One was taking some of that stuff that Paul Harvey hawks, like ‘roach proof’, only for ants, it is white and powdery and you put a line of it around the outside perimeter of the house, like a line that the ants can’t cross. Make sure it is close enough to the house that the eaves will keep the rain from melting it.
Another was making sure that no tree branches or wood of any kind touched the house, which in our case was where they were coming from.
Make sure that your dryer venting hole or any other venting is not where they are coming in. If you know where they are entering, try to screen it with fine mesh or seal it with “the great stuff” which makes an airtight seal.
Here is a link to some other tips that I found:
http://www.tipztime.com/area/bugtipz/ants.html
I hope that you beat the nasty little suckers. We had bees once, that was bad. Right now we have mice in the attic!!
I.
Hate.
Ants.
We had them starting in February last year.
February.
In New Hampshire.
Whatever.
They continued to come in waves, waiting just long enough for me to take their absence for granted before putting in a new appearance, for about 6 months. Lucky our chosen exterminator gave us a one-year warantee or guarantee or whatevertee, so he’s been back. And back. And back again.
Yuck.
I’m long past the stage of missing them. Let THEM plunk down 6-digits on a house, then they can eat as much of it as they want.
Yeah, let those ants buy themselves a house!
We have a guarantee, but the Ant Killer Man can’t come back for the first ten days. The ants are gone again today– I’m hoping for good.