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acol
  4/27/2020 10:16 EST

I am invaded (well, invaded: 50 to 60) by incredibly fast and resistant ants. Never seen that. What to do ?

coach53
  4/27/2020 13:38 EST

1. (It's often easy in OTHER climate where they sleep during a season, because then they can be kept outside be feeding them OUTSIDE in spring when they are short of food. Then they stay outside when they haven't got habbit to get inside. I mean when they have food enough outside. I had problem first years before I got this idea.)

2. There are several different powders. There are such NOT killing the ants, they just hate them, so they don't pass them.

3. If they have their NEST INSIDE your building, then it can be necesary to use a few small drops, which the ants count as delicious so they give it to the queen - which die and the the ant colony can't function anymore. I had to use it once at ONE of the colonies by they had built at the wall in my living room. I don't remember if the other ants left or died there. There weren't any alive ants left there anyway a few days later.


4. In Phils many poison the ground far around the house, but Filipinos aren't known for being careful with poisons :) so I DON'T recomend to use such pest contol sevices. But PERHAPS necesary if it's TERMITES.

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darkfader24
  4/27/2020 17:27 EST

Col - Maybe put Clorox or Bleach in a spray bottle and hit them with that? I think that will kill anything. Spray it around your thresholds 360 degrees, windows, any possible point of entry.

acol
  5/6/2020 09:54 EST

I have found: "RAID système anti-fourmis. It's a box with an entry and an exit full of poison that the ants bring back to the nest. It's over.....

IDAHO1
  5/7/2020 13:38 EST

Spray with naptha? Possible fire hazard.

Diatomaceous earth all around the building seems to do the trick as well.

darkfader24
  5/8/2020 19:51 EST

Acol - so did the "Raid" deal with the problem? Is that what you meant by "It's over."?

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