ants, ants, ants

[HickoryNut]

Bifen IT is darn good stuff. I'm buying another gallon before they find a reason to outlaw it.

I tried Amdro first, wasn't impressed, spot-sprayed with Bifen last week and I mean the ants just disappeared.

 

[heehaw]

whatever type of ants these are, they are really small, and don't go after sweets like most ants: i put some "terra" stuff out, which usually has a circle of ants around each drop within minutes: and i never saw a single ant go near it?? theres a 3/4 inch gap under my board and bat siding, and i know thats where they are making their nest, almost anything will kill em if i can just get it there, but thats where part of the problem is coming in. i may drill some small holes and pump some insecticide in that way?? "if" the bifen doesn't do the job.
heehaw

 

[heehaw]

well, i found that the ants in the yard sure like sweets: i put out some "terro" not terra as i previously said, which i think is boric acid with sweetener, and they where all over it in minutes: so i will keep it available to them until i don't see any more ants.
heehaw

 

[hudlow]

I saw something today that was curious...

I picked up a bucket in an outbuilding where I had spilled some 10-10-10 fertilizer and under the bucket where the fertilizer had gotten a little damp were a pile of big black ants in the 10-10-10.

Why would ants want to be in 10-10-10? I figure it would be kind of caustic.

hud

 

[caver]

Thanks to those who mentioned AMDRO.
The sandy soil in swampeast Missouri just seems to favor ants. I had problems off and on in my kitchen that often would be solved by putting out some Terro. A year later and I would leave some dirty dishes in the sink for a couple days bachelor, I can do that kind of stuff and they would return. They would build huge nest under anything flat and I even assume my roof shingles. Had the roof replaced over the winter due to hail damage and I notice their patterns seemed to have changed. I probably had several nests under my driveway. Waited on dry weather and put some AMDRO down. Ants seemed to ignore it. I thought I had wasted 13$. Later that week I noticed little to no ant activity across my driveway slab and only a couple ants in the kitchen. I stumbled into a nest yesterday under my deck but recalled I didn't treat under there so I finished the container off and went around the house again.
I had even tried the Terro granules with no success.
I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

 

[DocHeb]

Varying nutritional needs can be met by fertilizer's ingredients such as Sodium, Calcium, Magnesium, Urea, etc. Not much different than a salt lick for animals