Ants in garden.

Kennysevenfold · 21 Aug 2013 at 18:06

Evening.

When out pottering about in our garden today, we noticed a few ants kicking about on our slabs. On further inspection (lifting 3/4slabs) they are everywhere! These slabs run across the front of our house. There were channels under the slabs and i kid you not MILLIONS of ants running about after i lifted the slabs.

Tried powder from BnQ and 5/6 kettles of boiling water, but they just came back after a few hours.

Any industrial stuff i can buy that will do the job once and for good?

Thanks

Glaucus · 21 Aug 2013 at 18:10

I have to ask why.

Kennysevenfold · 21 Aug 2013 at 19:05

Why what?

Glaucus · 21 Aug 2013 at 19:19

Why do you want to kill them.

As long as they aren't coming in the house what's the issue.

thedoc46 · 21 Aug 2013 at 19:52

Ants need to be dealt with differently from other insects. It has to be a poison, that doesn't kill them instantly so that they take it back to the colony to the queen.

http://www.domyownpestcontrol.com/ant-control-kits-c-1_67.html

Nightglow · 21 Aug 2013 at 19:55

Glaucus said:
Why do you want to kill them.

As long as they aren't coming in the house what's the issue.

+1

Totally agree with that approach.

Hyburnate · 21 Aug 2013 at 19:57

Ants are very interesting insects, don't kill them they wont harm you

pitchfork · 21 Aug 2013 at 19:58

Kill the scout ants.

Maccapacca · 21 Aug 2013 at 19:59

Lay down a trap of food then once they are all out foraging draw a circle round them all in chalk, they'll eventually start or get eaten by predators.

Kennysevenfold · 21 Aug 2013 at 21:03

Glaucus said:
Why do you want to kill them.

As long as they aren't coming in the house what's the issue.

Preventative maintenence!

Nightglow · 21 Aug 2013 at 21:20

Kennysevenfold said:
Preventative maintenence!

Unnecessary maintenance .

Haze · 21 Aug 2013 at 21:54

sugar coated with cinnamon, is what u want

thedoc46 · 21 Aug 2013 at 22:26

Come to Florida you ant lovers. You'll soon change your mind about having the little nippers in your back yard!

Kill 'em, kill 'em all ...................................

httk · 22 Aug 2013 at 00:03

Capture one ant, put a minaturised Jeff Goldblum inside with a laptop and a computer virsus. The dummy ant will then go back to the mother ant, or "queen" and then he will upload it and speed out of their in his remote controlled dummy ant.

Course, the only problem here is that you'll have to house Jeff Goldblum afterwards, which many would argue is more trouble than some TINY insects OUTSIDE your house.

bitslice · 22 Aug 2013 at 00:12

Apparently there are Pandas outside of my house! Well somewhere, maybe a few miles away in a zoo or something, anyway that's beside the point. Tomorrow I'm going to track down these so called pandas and kill them all, before they get any funny ideas about coming into my house.

Grrr.

Suggestions on how to kill Pandas please.

arknor · 22 Aug 2013 at 00:16

get some kids and give them magnifying glasses.

oh wait you live in Scotland and don't get any sun

httk · 22 Aug 2013 at 00:21

Ok, I'm sorry for my previous glib comment, I think we should make serious suggestions from now on.

Nuke them from orbit....it's the only way to be sure.

wnb · 22 Aug 2013 at 00:30

I can relate to the op, used ant powder on the suckers but it does not work.

bitslice · 22 Aug 2013 at 00:57

Issue them all with Ant ASBO's,
problem is that only moves the ants from under his paving slab to another paving slab outside of town, if some unsuspecting person lifted that paving slab they might also be shocked and horrified at finding ants underneath it. What if a child found the ants? Why won't anyone think of the children!?

arknor · 22 Aug 2013 at 01:33

wnb said:
I can relate to the op, used ant powder on the suckers but it does not work.

cos your probably getting the really weak ones get the ones with cockroaches on the bottle

it has a higher concentration of the poison

Ants in garden.

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