Ant attack

[mad_dog]

My house is suddenly full of ants. Non live in girlie says it is becuase I leave uneaten food lying around. She was probably right but fuckers seems to be imune to the old poison I used to use and have succeded in burrowing under the tile floor. I had to throw out my French bread today and it had been in a rapped in a bag with a twiste thing on it and was on top of the fridge for just one night I am begining to think they may be super ants come to torrment me. Any ideas

[Spin]

You need to buy some of that powder stuff that they walk in and then carry back to the nest where it kills them all later. Big C have it 250 baht.

[blackgang]

^ that is a good thing Spin.
And I bought a small spray tank for a few hundred baht and it will hold maybe a gallon and 1/2, and I buy bug spray good for ants and termites, Shelldrite is best but do not get any on your face or tender parts cause it stings, but Chaindrite is also good and mix according to directions and my sprayer is always half full or more and I spray around every so often and when I see an ant I spray the hell out of the area around the bottom of the walls, both inside and outside, and now we never have ants in the food, but you have to keep after them cause the brain dead do not even notice them until they live with a farang for awhile and learn, so your neighborhood is bound to be alive with them.

[buad hai]

I figure they're there to clean up after me. When they're done, they're gone.

That said, there were quite a few floating in the honey we poured on the pancakes yesterday morning. No effect on the flavor, though.

[El Gibbon]

Two more "tricks" for ya.

Keep leftover food etc in a free standing cabinet. Nothing touching any walls or wire that the ants may travel on. Put a cup of water under each of the legs and keep it half full.

Another is to spread common talcum power around the base of your walls etc, in cabinet floors, drawers etc. ants don't like talc.

Talc also works in the cups of the cupboard.

I know this sounds like bullshit but it worked for me in Makham on all types of crawlery critters other than spiders.

E. G.

[Spin]

^^

[buad hai]

When I was in the Peace Corps (71-72) they talked about the four stages of ant acceptance:

1 - You carefully remove the ants from the sugar before you spoon it into your coffee

2 - You carefully remove the ants from the coffee after you've spooned in the sugar

3 - You carefully remove the ants from your teeth after you've finished drinking your coffee

4 -

[Thai Pom]

Step 4 . Don't take Sugar.

[Spin]

a free standing cabinet. Nothing touching any walls or wire that the ants may travel on. Put a cup of water under each of the legs and keep it half full.

It would be great if they built whole condo buildings using the same idea as above, no residents would have ants then

[Thetyim]

Blimey, is that why English castles had moats ?

[blackgang]

Talc also works in the cups of the cupboard. I know this sounds like bullshit but it worked for me in Makham on all types of crawlery critters other than spiders.

The ARKIN man told me to use Boric acid powder, [not pharma grade] but commercial grade and sprinkle it around and under the house and it does work and don't kill your pets.
But I have been using chaindrite and we have no ants in the house.

[NickA]

It would be great if they built whole condo buildings using the same idea as above, no residents would have ants then

I think one of the palaces uses this in it's design, the one near Hua Hin, all the posts are surrounded by water.

[Sir Burr]

You can get those tiny yellow pellets made by ARS that you pour into a plastic see-through "hotel" that have little entrances. The ants take it back, feed it to the queen and all the workers and they all croak. Very effective.

[bkkmadness]

When I was in the Peace Corps (71-72) they talked about the four stages of ant acceptance:

1 - You carefully remove the ants from the sugar before you spoon it into your coffee

2 - You carefully remove the ants from the coffee after you've spooned in the sugar

3 - You carefully remove the ants from your teeth after you've finished drinking your coffee

4 -

I'm at a different stage. I leave the ants a little sugar to keep them going whilst I have my morning tea. I come back to clean up afterwards.

[Marmite the Dog]

I just spray the skirting-board with mozzie spay every so often. It works for me and I've usually got a nice collection of dirty plates lying around.

[buad hai]

I think one of the palaces uses this in it's design, the one near Hua Hin, all the posts are surrounded by water.

Phra Ratchaniwet Marukhathayawan

Can't really see in this photo, but this is the place.