please please help me

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 15:39

is there any magical solution to keeping ants out of the house?? They came in to snack on my dogs food, and now they are everywhere!! Even in the fridge!! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP!!!!!



DD

cronos


Joined: 26/10/2008
Posts: 2093

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 15:42

You could ring KAR and see if any Anteaters want rehoming !



Seriously....I think this problem has been posted before but I can't remember the weird and wonderful solutions.

TimothyCadman


Joined: 13/12/2007
Posts: 1040

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 15:45

Ant powder around the doors and just going mad with ant sprays that you can get in the supermarkets.

Another solution is to feed your dogs outside, or not allow food to sit around the house uncovered. If our dogs left any food it was covered with cling film and placed in a shady place outside. The ants then had no reason to enter our home.

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 15:46

Daisy, buy a can "BENGAL Tuttinsetti" (under pressure) - killing ants and other insects instantly. Lemar (and possibly other big supermarkets. Also buy some powder and block 'the ants roads' (don't know how to describe it any better in the English language, sorry).

laptatim


Joined: 23/09/2008
Posts: 104

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 15:48

plenty of ant powder under your kitchen units

clean your worktops with viniger

daisy dukes


Joined: 06/09/2008
Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 15:48

My dogs get fed once a day (chicken necks mostly) but they always have a bowl of biscuits down for nibbles, this is what they are now sharing with the ant population....i HATE ants!! I would rather have a tarantula inmy house than ants!!!





DD

DutchCrusader



Joined: 19/05/2008
Posts: 11281

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 15:50

Daisy, won't help you much but Cypriot Turks believe that ants in and around your house bring luck to your house...

daisy dukes


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Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 15:50

Super!!! Thanks...i shall get to Lemar immediately!!



DD

daisy dukes


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Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 15:52

GOOD LUCK????????? Stuff good luck....i really have a phobia thingy going on with ants!!



DD

lovingcyprus


Joined: 02/03/2007
Posts: 1272

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 16:02

I read the other day that if you draw a line with white chalk the ants will not cross it. This is not a joke, try it

daisy dukes


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Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 16:05

I heard it's the chalk that bothers them...and that this is the main component in ant powder



DD

daisy dukes


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Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 17:13

Well there are restaurants that have tanks filled with ants, and roast, fry and/or boil them for consumption...eeeeeeewwww, i would rather remove my own eyeballs with a rusty spoon....



DD

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 18:12

Try putting little piles of sugar, outside, but near the various ant nest, or trail, locations - it's an old remedy for discouraging ants to come inside a dwelling to search for tucker!

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 18:13

Try putting little piles of sugar, outside, but near the various ant nest, or trail, locations - it's an old remedy for discouraging ants to come inside a dwelling to search for tucker!

spud50


Joined: 02/05/2008
Posts: 213

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 18:13

A friend recommended putting a small drop of domestos on the ant road and also in any small holes that they use. This has worked for us!!!

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 18:15

Sorry about that double posting - the first one looked as if it was going to be a 'fizzer'!

Lilli



Joined: 21/07/2008
Posts: 13081

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 18:18

I have heard diluted vodka on the trial does the trick. xx

daisy dukes


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Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 18:30

LILLI!!!! wash your mouth out with soap!! Wasting good vodka!! Whatever next!!!





DD

PaulW



Joined: 20/07/2009
Posts: 651

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 18:42

The only thing vodka should be diluted with is more vodka, shame on you Lilli.



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ataturk


Joined: 09/09/2008
Posts: 712

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 18:58

The best solution in getting rid of ants yourself is to buy any insect powder you can find it doesnt have to be for ants it could be for any insect as they are all the same. Then get some icing sugar and mix it 2 parts of ant powder to one part of sugar and spirnkle it around the outside of the house where you see the ants. Try and leave little piles. Then watch then go mad to take the sugar back to the nest thus killing the queen.

daisy dukes


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Posts: 3815

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 19:10

What a super idea ataturk!! That actually makes sense!! Thanks!!



DD

Tenakoutou



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Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
29/08/2009 19:18

Ants are smart - thank goodness they don't grow to the size of a dog, or larger....

HildySmith


Joined: 02/07/2009
Posts: 1708

Message Posted:
30/08/2009 13:07

I have just returned and the villa I was staying in was unoccupied and the ants had moved in.

We have had this problem abroad before. You can get plug-in insect killers the dark blue ones with the tabs that slot in are good - all you find is a black blob where the ants were, we put them in each room. Also there is a spray which I got 2 weeks ago in Atakara Alsancak. It is a white can with a large black insect on it and it kills for 3 months. I sprayed the kitchen area worksurfaces the floors around the work surfaces etc on arrival and the next morning there were no ants and there were dead bugs around the floor. The cupboards get ants in too, so if you open something and then put the container in the fridge the ants are on the container so you get them in your fridge. I also found some wipes - degreasers/antibiotic ones and I wiped the surfaces with them after I had finished to make sure there were no traces of food left for the ants - it worked we had no problems.

sporty


Joined: 06/12/2007
Posts: 685

Message Posted:
30/08/2009 13:25

the villa i rented in catalkoy had ants everywhere,the lady who looks after the place bought a few of these little plastic traps and left them in every room,i think the ants thought they were in a playground climbing on the swings etc! basically they didnt work,wasnt too happy spraying food surfaces with ant killer either,probably wont do us much good either,i just kept wiping them down each day,i felt like a mass murderer! anyway Daisy if all else fails you could put a photo of your armpit by your dogs bowl,that should keep the little buggers away. lol x

westender


Joined: 14/05/2009
Posts: 328

Message Posted:
30/08/2009 18:26

A couple of years ago we had an ant invasion and put down ant powder. The crafty little buggers took to the coving and we had lines of them all around the kitchen ceiling. We'd just bought over a new powerful Hoover and used it to suck them all up, they never came back!

IvorBankloan



Joined: 14/08/2009
Posts: 180

Message Posted:
30/08/2009 20:29

they don't like Lynx spray, boiling water, paint thinner and they melt really easy under petrol, but watch the last two if you smoke.

My wife says don't hurt tyhem, talk to them and tell them to leave but hey, she's still here so that doesn't work

ToShakeYrLa2


Joined: 04/03/2009
Posts: 26

Message Posted:
30/08/2009 20:46

Re msg 24 Katy, the white can with the insect on the front is called 'Sertex' available in Lemar etc. I've also used this round doors, walls, sliding window runners etc, works a treat. Went into the kitchen the other night to find a cockroach having a dance on the washing machine. Sprayed around the back of the sink and found it the following morning by the front door on its back, still had a slight twitch to it though (thankfully the Sertex had got rid of its Tourrette's...)

CarrieRBag



Joined: 23/12/2008
Posts: 1374

Message Posted:
30/08/2009 20:59

Daisy, my Cypriot friends recently told me of a product in Lemar, its called SPIRO and I bought it on Friday. Its about TL5 and you put the powder around the window sills and around the door and since putting it down... not one ant in the kitchen! Amazing buy true.

ataturk


Joined: 09/09/2008
Posts: 712

Message Posted:
30/08/2009 22:24

Just remember sprays are not as effective at killing ants as powders with icing sugar or the little plastic containers that allow ants to feed from. The way these work is by allowing the ants to take the bait back to the nest thus killing the queen and then the nest. If you only kill the workers it wont affect teh nest.