Ants!!

No rotting fruit or anything for them to eat. After the first time I saw them in the kitchen, I have kept it as clean as I can. What I have found via YouTube videos is that when they install door sills; most don't fill the void, only a thin layer of glue is used. Only one video showed it being cemented onto the brick work.
 
Ah its that time of year again is it. I've known them numerous times its usually worst and you've been away a few days/weeks on holiday come back and find the kitchen infested with them. They used to come in regularly here every summer until I found the tiny gap in the window frame where they were getting in, until then a sprayer bottle of bug gun squirted around the hole stopped them until it washed off usually a couple of months later. A drop of ant killer bait works if you can find their trails and drop it across them they swarm to it and carry it back to the nest where it kills the queen (they stick to a strict path where teh original scout came). But blocking up their holes where they gain entry is best as prevention is better than cure as a new colony will likely find the same food source again
 
Me too!

Well not really in the house but have noticed some likely nest type activity around the patio where it meets the house. If they aren't actually getting in the house then what's the harm in just leaving them alone? Will they eventually destroy our houses foundations or something? :cry:
 
I had them take over my kitchen a while ago, came home to find this nightmare


Luckily found where they were coming in and i poured boiling water down the hole and repaired the concrete outside havent had them back again.
 
uncle_rufus said:
Me too!

Well not really in the house but have noticed some likely nest type activity around the patio where it meets the house. If they aren't actually getting in the house then what's the harm in just leaving them alone? Will they eventually destroy our houses foundations or something? :cry:
Click to expand...
If you don't want them in the house; you definitely don't want their nests under the patio; especially the first row which meets the house wall. Houses have too many entry points for ants to get in through; under door sills, around door/window frames, gaps around satellite/TV cable holes or copper/waste pipe holes. It reduces the chance of them entering in my opinion if the tiles are laid properly.
 
Place where I work they've had to shut off a room as it was infested with ants they decided to swarm and the window panes were covered in the flying ones they got a pest controller in with traps and powder everywhere had to remove a radiator guard from teh wall and theres a bigger than fist sized hole where the heating pipes come up they're coming from down there somehow, its an old building repurposed so this type of thing is common they're lucky its just ants and not mice I've known them live in spaces like that
 
We had ant ant nest in the garden, and before thinking it through properly I poured a kettle full of boiling water on it. It killed the nest but killed the earth! There's still a 1 foot sq bare patch on the lawn.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom