Carpenter ants suckage

[HomeBrewerDude]

some carpenter ants were trying to nest in my wifes closet (we have a 1950's Ranch) and I decided I better call a pro for this one...

Initial treatment has got them all riled up, and we are supposed to dust them instead of killing them on site. This is getting highly irritating and I hope they all die soon.


Anyone else been through this?

 

[Daaavo]

Boric acid is your friend. Use it.

 

[RU482]

I've never had the joy of carpenter ants before, but I had an ant invasion in a fairly new house I was trying to sell, convieniently on the day of the buyers' inspector's walk through.

That and termites in the garage of my first house. The buyer had a VA loan and had to perform any and every inspection there was

 

[Chunkee]

napalm is your real friend

JC

 

[jadinolf]

I get carpenter bees here every year. They are devouring my patio.

edit: http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef611.htm

 

[Queasy]

Originally posted by: jadinolf
I get carpenter bees here every year. They are devouring my patio.

edit: http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef611.htm

I found one boring into my fence. Couldn't believe the hole that little booger had made.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Chunkee
napalm is your real friend

JC

Just in the morning.

 

[watdahel]

all you gotta do is find where their entrance is and drop napalm or bleach on that site. That will disorient the outside ants and won't know which direction to go and they'll forget what they were doing in the first place

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: erwin1978
all you gotta do is find where their entrance is and drop napalm or bleach on that site. That will disorient the outside ants and won't know which direction to go and they'll forget what they were doing in the first place

Secretly, I think they are after my kegerator.

 

[So]

Originally posted by: jadinolf

Originally posted by: Chunkee
napalm is your real friend

JC

Just in the morning.

Learn those ants the smell of...victory!

 

[RU482]

Originally posted by: erwin1978
all you gotta do is find where their entrance is and drop napalm or bleach on that site. That will disorient the outside ants and won't know which direction to go and they'll forget what they were doing in the first place

where does that average guy get some napalm, I must ask??

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: Queasy

Originally posted by: jadinolf
I get carpenter bees here every year. They are devouring my patio.

edit: http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/struct/ef611.htm

I found one boring into my fence. Couldn't believe the hole that little booger had made.

Yes but then they bore well into the wood and make their little nest for the queen which really weakens the wood.

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: redly1

Originally posted by: erwin1978
all you gotta do is find where their entrance is and drop napalm or bleach on that site. That will disorient the outside ants and won't know which direction to go and they'll forget what they were doing in the first place

where does that average guy get some napalm, I must ask??

Ar Napalm R Us

 

[VirginiaDonkey]

try Ortho HomeDefense

get it at Lowes or Home Depot...works great

 

[hemiram]

We had a Carpenter Ants nest next to the dishwasher in the kitchen. I kept seeing them every time I opened it up, but I wasn't sure if they were just coming in, or they had something going on inside. I called this bug place and he told me to tap once on each of the panels around the dishwasher, and listen. I did and I went "Tap", and you could clearly hear "click-click". So he comes out and he snaked a little fiber optic camera into the area behind the panel. There were hundreds of them. He shot something in there, and then we went outside and found the entrance from outside, the hole for the dryer vent. He put some stuff there too and we never saw one again.

Not nearly the hassle we had when we had the giant beehive in the back yard and before we found it, my dogs were getting stung constantly. It was about the size of two basketballs side by side. After it got zapped, I took the hive out of the tree and there was a honeycomb in there about 18x14". Too bad it had to be tossed.

 

[StageLeft]

Not those, but we do have fireants that like to get in the house sometimes, and my useless neighbours are far too stupid to actually, god forbid, do anything about them, so while my house is a veritable fortress, it's under constant siege from the idiocy surrounding me. I put some poison down on the weekend and took the liberty of walking a little bit into each of my neighbour's yards.

Carpenter ants eat wood, so that's not cool. Fireants do no damage but their bites are bloody annoying. Itch like a mother for days. I still have a scar on my chest from when one of those little bitches bit me last summer. He only drew my wrath, however, so not only do I poison liberally but I also kick ant hills when I see them on the road, during my walks, and look at the little bastards crawl around in a frenzy.

 

[Schadenfroh]

For The Win!

 

[Kelemvor]

Best thing to use is Advance Carpenter Ant Bait.

We used that stuff and within a day or two, no more ants. Totally, completely gone, dead, vanished. Was like a miracle cure.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: redly1

Originally posted by: erwin1978
all you gotta do is find where their entrance is and drop napalm or bleach on that site. That will disorient the outside ants and won't know which direction to go and they'll forget what they were doing in the first place

where does that average guy get some napalm, I must ask??

Vasoline and gas?

 

[Juno]

Originally posted by: hemiram
We had a Carpenter Ants nest next to the dishwasher in the kitchen. I kept seeing them every time I opened it up, but I wasn't sure if they were just coming in, or they had something going on inside. I called this bug place and he told me to tap once on each of the panels around the dishwasher, and listen. I did and I went "Tap", and you could clearly hear "click-click". So he comes out and he snaked a little fiber optic camera into the area behind the panel. There were hundreds of them. He shot something in there, and then we went outside and found the entrance from outside, the hole for the dryer vent. He put some stuff there too and we never saw one again.

Not nearly the hassle we had when we had the giant beehive in the back yard and before we found it, my dogs were getting stung constantly. It was about the size of two basketballs side by side. After it got zapped, I took the hive out of the tree and there was a honeycomb in there about 18x14". Too bad it had to be tossed.

Keep the hive and sell honey!

 

[eyecandy86]

We get carpenter ants here a lot.

We had an envasion in my little brother's room 2 years ago. Had to close off his room and call someone in. It was terrible.

This year they are somewhere in our screened in patio and keep ending up dead in the pool due to chlorine.

It's sick.

Good luck. I hate those things.

 

[huesmann]

What does a carpenter ant look like? As opposed to other varieties of ants, etc.

 

[Horus]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: redly1

Originally posted by: erwin1978
all you gotta do is find where their entrance is and drop napalm or bleach on that site. That will disorient the outside ants and won't know which direction to go and they'll forget what they were doing in the first place

where does that average guy get some napalm, I must ask??

Styrofoam and gas

Fixed

 

[eyecandy86]

Originally posted by: huesmann
What does a carpenter ant look like? As opposed to other varieties of ants, etc.

An ant with wings.

http://www.securitypest.com/ant_photos.htm

 

[Patt]

I'm fighting mice at the moment