Red Ants

**Airportwo** · 20-03-2009, 12:24 PM

Red ants seem to have taken over my garden, they are everywhere, especialy in trees - zillions of em!
How to get rid of em????

**Attilla the Hen** · 20-03-2009, 12:50 PM

Are these the type that pull leaves together and stitch them up to make a nest?
If so, they have an awfully painful bite.

**Happyman** · 20-03-2009, 12:54 PM

^
If they are then get one of those sprays of bug killer with a long thin tube to stick in the spray hole .

Ease that in between the stuck together leaves and give 'em a blast.
After you have done it about three or four times on the same tree the little buggers move away ! Those that are left alive !

**Rural Surin** · 20-03-2009, 01:02 PM

Leave them alone. Tamarind Red Ants generally like to nest high and out of the way.....what's with you people that react to kill everything in sight when it inconveniences you ever so slightly. These little buggers are more important to the universal life cycles than we are.

**withnallstoke** · 20-03-2009, 01:05 PM

Originally Posted by Attilla the Hen

Are these the type that pull leaves together and stitch them up to make a nest? If so, they have an awfully painful bite.

If they are, ask one of the natives round for supper and show them the nests. They'll have the buggers down in no time, and a meal to boot.

**Airportwo** · 20-03-2009, 01:19 PM

I cut some branches from trees yesterday, thats how I found out - yes they have a painful bite, maybe the best thing to do is let them settle down again, and leave them be?

**Norton** · 20-03-2009, 01:27 PM

Originally Posted by Airportwo

maybe the best thing to do is let them settle down again, and leave them be?

That's the ticket. They will be gone in a couple of months anyway. Good news is they will stay outside as they don't care much for indoor living.

**blackgang** · 20-03-2009, 02:05 PM

Get a tank type sprayer as they come in handy when the black ants of a dozen different types and sizes move in to destroy your stored food supply and get into everything in the house.
Then buy a bottle of CHAINDRITE and mix according to directions with water, then spray your tree and the outside of your house where it comes in contact with the ground and any ant runways and trails that you see and then you will not be bothered for awhile, but you will have to respray every so often to remain any free.
Or call an exterminator and they will do it for about 4k and then be back every month for awhile and you should get a 2 year guarentee.

**Airportwo** · 20-03-2009, 02:05 PM

Norton ^^ Care to expand on above? are they "seasonal' ? temporary accommodation or ?

**slimboyfat** · 20-03-2009, 02:09 PM

Show me one of his posts and I will red him

**Attilla the Hen** · 20-03-2009, 02:10 PM

I think what Norton means is that once they've eaten the available food supply, they move on to richer pickin's.

pompeybloke · 20-03-2009, 02:16 PM

Those red ones in the trees are large and the bite is painful initially but quickly subsides. Only attack as self defence it seems, let be is best. Awkward thoguh when tree branches need pruning.
It's the small red ground ants that bite enmasse and are everywhere at the mo. using antpowder to kill em near the house as my kids get attacked too much. bite stings a lot, swells and irritates for a week after. buggers them.

**Smithson** · 20-03-2009, 02:19 PM

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

what's with you people that react to kill everything in sight when it inconveniences you ever so slightly.

I tend to agree, besides killing the ants, poisons will kill all sorts of insects and microorganisms, many of which are beneficial for organic gardening.

Would be good to hear some other ways to deal with ants, we've got heaps, the locals want to spray but I won't let them.

**Norton** · 20-03-2009, 02:43 PM

Originally Posted by Airportwo

Norton ^^ Care to expand on above? are they "seasonal' ? temporary accommodation or ?

Up here in Isaan we are in the annual nesting period. Lots of folks out getting the eggs (Kai Mut Daeng). The ants will be nesting for about 2 or 3 months then they will pretty much disperse. Not sure where they go but you won't find many around when they are not nesting.

Really no need to poison them. Just stay clear and watch where you step with bare feet.

These are likely the ants you speak of.

weaver red ant (oecophylla smaragdina): info fact sheet, photos

**Airportwo** · 20-03-2009, 02:51 PM

^ Thats em! - anyway - they have been officially reprieved - Bless them! - girlfriend has already collected what eggs she could..............

**chitown** · 20-03-2009, 03:20 PM

Originally Posted by Rural Surin

....what's with you people that react to kill everything in sight when it inconveniences you ever so slightly

If only we were all more like you..........

**dirtydog** · 20-03-2009, 04:01 PM

Send then to rurla surin, or, poison the buggers.

**somtamslap** · 20-03-2009, 04:11 PM

Tis easy.. Find the nest, light a small fire under it, prise the nest down with a long stick making sure the nest remains intact, gently lower it to the fire holding the nest about 6-10 inches from it, wait a minute or two, take hold of nest in hands, peel back leaves, empty out all the dead ants and lick the eggs off the leaves...issan cavier...best served on the peel of a papaya for that extra hint of rurality.

**blackgang** · 20-03-2009, 04:30 PM

Chaindrite will fix it so ya dont have to put up with em.
Shelldrite is better but if ya find it do not let any spray blow back in your face or on any tender skin as it is a burning bitch but it also means you have no ants, termites or spiders either.

**kk boy** · 20-03-2009, 05:45 PM

Eggs are actually very good for bait when fishing and don't know if it is true but remember someone saying that they were the original colouring for a Thai red curry

**Airportwo** · 20-03-2009, 05:54 PM

2 of the trees are 15m plus high, anybody want to volunteer and nip up the trees, find the nests then randomly exterminate the rest

**blackgang** · 20-03-2009, 06:46 PM

Friend of mine last year had them red bastards in his tree and were ceawling all over the outside of his house,
So he borrow my garden sprayer and some of the chaindrite in it and sprayed his tree up as high as he could get it to squirt, got rid of the ants from his property that day and ain't been bothered since.

**Spin** · 21-03-2009, 05:35 AM

Originally Posted by somtamslap

lick the eggs off the leaves...issan cavier.

The gf was telling me this week she had been eating ant eggs. She reckons I should eat them becuase folklore has it, they give a man extra power down there.
Not that I need any help in that department of course.

**Wayne Kerr** · 21-03-2009, 05:46 AM

A good way to solve the problem for good is to put a few soft drink bottles half full of water around the perimeter of your property. These attract the ants away from areas where they cause you grief. Eventually they build their nests near the water bottles at which time you can f'ck the bottles off and blow the nest up with a stick of dynamite or pour petrol down their nest holes, light it up, and burn the suckers alive. Hope this has been useful advice and have fun killing ants, the f'n little things

**Norton** · 21-03-2009, 11:20 AM

Originally Posted by Spin

She reckons I should eat them becuase folklore has it, they give a man extra power down there.

Antagra. Readily available at your local village mini mart.

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