The best method we used to exterminate the ants was to buy those little ant trap contraptions. It's a small plastic dishe with a little blob of poison in, you can get them from Wilko. The ant's come and take it away thinking its food, feed the Queen it et voila! they're gone. It's either that or call the exterminators in.
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Locate the nest, get a spade, dig part way under ground to see if its the right location (lots of angry ants running through the freshly dug soil trying to bite your shoes is a sure sign your in the right place), pour a load of charcoal onto it, then smother it with lighter fluid, the more the better, then stick a lid on top with an intake and exhaust hole left in place, just holes in the soil will do. Trick to this is they don't like smoke, they think their homes on fire.... which to be fair, in a few minutes it probably will be. After its done smoking a lot it should catch on fire and start heating the coals. This will proceed to burn any remaining ants that fancy themselves as smoke inhilation experts and show them who's boss.
If you were clever, or stupid, enough to use a plastic bin lid, you should find once the coals have hit a sufficient temperature the lid will start to melt, covering the exposed ant home in molten plastic.... toxic and tricky to get out of if your an ant.
For any remaining ants that havn't been completely disheartened at your quite easy method of trying to move them along a can of wd40 (not lynx) and a lighter are your best bet. The wd40 spreads out before impact and burns briefly after landing so is in effect more like napalm than lynx and is far more effective.
"Remove mulch, food sources (especially cooking oils and grease), garbage, manure, fruits and nuts, debris, pieces of lumber, old equipment, weeds and grass; elevate bee hives; caulk and seal or fill with aerosol foam insulation all open voids, cracks, crevices (in houses, barns, etc.); quickly remove dead animals and hay bales; regularly mow and trim; where you want to keep them out, lightly dust their possible entrances with talcum powder, medicated body powder or Comet or smear petroleum jelly or Tanglefoot where you want to capture them and prevent their entry. You can also use WD40 or vacuum up fire ants where it is not safe to use hot water or other controls." link to quote and recipe for home brewed ant poison
They also detest eucalyptus oil, so mix a solution of that using a bottle of eucalyptus oil, and mix it with water (boiling for a more dramatic ant harming effect) and pour all over the ant nest and watch them flea (damn, wrong insect
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My mother also worked out that ants in the kitchen, particularly around the boiler can be romoved by aggressively spraying ant poison around said boiler and ultimately allowing it to virtually explode when it comes into contact with the pilot flame, apparantly (according to the gass man) its quite a common method and one that seemed to work quite well.
Well, i reckon thats enough for you to try for now, if all the above fail come back and i'll give you some more
If you were clever, or stupid, enough to use a plastic bin lid, you should find once the coals have hit a sufficient temperature the lid will start to melt, covering the exposed ant home in molten plastic.... toxic and tricky to get out of if your an ant.
For any remaining ants that havn't been completely disheartened at your quite easy method of trying to move them along a can of wd40 (not lynx) and a lighter are your best bet. The wd40 spreads out before impact and burns briefly after landing so is in effect more like napalm than lynx and is far more effective.
"Remove mulch, food sources (especially cooking oils and grease), garbage, manure, fruits and nuts, debris, pieces of lumber, old equipment, weeds and grass; elevate bee hives; caulk and seal or fill with aerosol foam insulation all open voids, cracks, crevices (in houses, barns, etc.); quickly remove dead animals and hay bales; regularly mow and trim; where you want to keep them out, lightly dust their possible entrances with talcum powder, medicated body powder or Comet or smear petroleum jelly or Tanglefoot where you want to capture them and prevent their entry. You can also use WD40 or vacuum up fire ants where it is not safe to use hot water or other controls." link to quote and recipe for home brewed ant poison
They also detest eucalyptus oil, so mix a solution of that using a bottle of eucalyptus oil, and mix it with water (boiling for a more dramatic ant harming effect) and pour all over the ant nest and watch them flea (damn, wrong insect
) My mother also worked out that ants in the kitchen, particularly around the boiler can be romoved by aggressively spraying ant poison around said boiler and ultimately allowing it to virtually explode when it comes into contact with the pilot flame, apparantly (according to the gass man) its quite a common method and one that seemed to work quite well.
Well, i reckon thats enough for you to try for now, if all the above fail come back and i'll give you some more
Last year we had thousands of flying ants and normal ants and boiling water done the trick 