It is ant season again. How the frick do I keep them away from my house?
Cinnamon? Works only for idk, a day or two. Then I have to clean it up and add new cinnamon (probably because whatever keeps them away is highly volatile).
Cigarette ashes? Tobacco? It is kinda weird, at first they avoid it like cancer, but then they get addicted or something and bring leaves back to their house (which I couldn't locate at all btw)
Pesticide? I can't use that indoors, as it might be extremely toxic to parrot.
Bait pesticide? Doesn't do shit, they ignore it.
I tried sealing all holes in the house, but thats tricky as they can chew through silicone or whatever sealant I use. These fricks can chew through cement (tile thinset) somehow too.
Vinegar? Idk, it only works to clean up their scent trail to some degree, and causes stranded ants to get confused and die of hunger.
Borax? They don't care.
Maybe I should plant something like tobacco (or other kind of toxic plant) in front yard and backyard (in places where they come from usually) >inb4: just dont live in dump
I leave no food as is. Clean floors regularly. They just fricking enter house, and use it as a highway to god knows where, and while they are at it, they may climb upstairs, which sucks, or idk, figure out the way inside the fridge, inside the hermetically sealed containers and run my dinner, because I don't really want to eat ants, I'd rather eat whatever I cooked.
Different species of ants are controlled in different ways and eat different types of bait.
Get a pest control company to take a look. If you have carpenter ants, you may have water damage or rotting wood in your house.
I think they are argentine ants. >If you have carpenter ants, you may have water damage or rotting wood in your house.
House has no wood. First floor is brick, second floor is steel stud framing.... Well, except roof, its OSB. >Get a pest control company to take a look.
I mean sure, they will come, and probably use stronger stuff that I can't just go and buy without a license.
So the problem is exactly the same as in off-the-shelf pesticide. I just can't use them indoors because of parrot, and outdoors, well, it is also tricky, Neighbors didn't care for wasp nest in the shed for like 2 years straight (which I had to solve myself by waiting when nobody is home at night and just flooding the shit out of shed roof with hose and soap), and you want them to care about ants?
I use these little tins of peanut butter with borax mixed in that you can buy in packs of three at places like Canadian Tire, the ants will bring back the poisoned food and it will kill the whole nest, usually it takes around a week. It is important that you do not kill the ants as they swarm the tins as you want them to bring it back to kill the nest, so set the tins some place where the ants will find it but out of the way so you don't have to look at the ant swarm. Usually ants send out scouts, and when a scout ant find abundant food, like those tins, they will mark a scent trail back to their best so they can find it again -- if you clean around this area with anything or wet you will destroy the scent trail, so mop before you set down the borax peanut butter and not after. Make sure there are no other sources of food for the ants so they will go for the borax pb.
...oh, one of the symptoms that the borax is working is that ants will increasingly seek out water, so be prepared for that, and if you don't want them to swarm your faucet maybe leave out a cap of water for them, near the borax.
How does this kill predators, it's a landmine, wouldn't have a 50/50 chance of killing prey animals too?
Why would you use any indiscriminate killing vector to control predators?
These things are fricking crazy, I have heard about them before. They have killed children before. Basically its just a fricking cyanide land mine to indiscriminately kill predators.
Sheep lives matter! Think of the profit margins of hicks that are too lazy to manage their shit properly, libtard! They lose $5000 to stray dogs and $1000 to wolves and coyotes yearly out of their six figure net earnings! AMERICA IS NOT ABOUT THIS!
And don’t get me started on how fricking invasive wolves reduce deer populations so much that we can’t have hunting season without them becoming endangered! How else are we supposed to fund conservation? TAXES!?
maybe we should use some of the money israel is using to kill civillians
or some of the money lockheed martin is scamming the usaf out of
or >american “conservatives”: i’d rather have cyanide mines in the park than less broken fighter jets and peace in the middle east.
kek, I knew BLM stands for Bureau of Land Management because Stiffler's mom was banging one in White Lotus. I highly recommend watching the first season of White Lotus if you are stuck somewhere cold and gray, as it's set in Hawaii with a lot of lush scenery and nice jungle music. The beginning of Snakes of a Plane have a lot of wide shots of Maui Hawaii too, but then they got on the plane and it's just plane interior and CGI snakes. I was so disappointed to find out that the Palm Suite in White Lotus wasn't real, that room look so comfy with all the palms.
I will highjack this thread as I cant make my own
It is ant season again. How the frick do I keep them away from my house?
Cinnamon? Works only for idk, a day or two. Then I have to clean it up and add new cinnamon (probably because whatever keeps them away is highly volatile).
Cigarette ashes? Tobacco? It is kinda weird, at first they avoid it like cancer, but then they get addicted or something and bring leaves back to their house (which I couldn't locate at all btw)
Pesticide? I can't use that indoors, as it might be extremely toxic to parrot.
Bait pesticide? Doesn't do shit, they ignore it.
I tried sealing all holes in the house, but thats tricky as they can chew through silicone or whatever sealant I use. These fricks can chew through cement (tile thinset) somehow too.
Vinegar? Idk, it only works to clean up their scent trail to some degree, and causes stranded ants to get confused and die of hunger.
Borax? They don't care.
Maybe I should plant something like tobacco (or other kind of toxic plant) in front yard and backyard (in places where they come from usually)
>inb4: just dont live in dump
I leave no food as is. Clean floors regularly. They just fricking enter house, and use it as a highway to god knows where, and while they are at it, they may climb upstairs, which sucks, or idk, figure out the way inside the fridge, inside the hermetically sealed containers and run my dinner, because I don't really want to eat ants, I'd rather eat whatever I cooked.
Different species of ants are controlled in different ways and eat different types of bait.
Get a pest control company to take a look. If you have carpenter ants, you may have water damage or rotting wood in your house.
I think they are argentine ants.
>If you have carpenter ants, you may have water damage or rotting wood in your house.
House has no wood. First floor is brick, second floor is steel stud framing.... Well, except roof, its OSB.
>Get a pest control company to take a look.
I mean sure, they will come, and probably use stronger stuff that I can't just go and buy without a license.
So the problem is exactly the same as in off-the-shelf pesticide. I just can't use them indoors because of parrot, and outdoors, well, it is also tricky, Neighbors didn't care for wasp nest in the shed for like 2 years straight (which I had to solve myself by waiting when nobody is home at night and just flooding the shit out of shed roof with hose and soap), and you want them to care about ants?
spread diatomaceous earth wherever they are likely to crawl around. it cuts up their carapace and kills them
I use these little tins of peanut butter with borax mixed in that you can buy in packs of three at places like Canadian Tire, the ants will bring back the poisoned food and it will kill the whole nest, usually it takes around a week. It is important that you do not kill the ants as they swarm the tins as you want them to bring it back to kill the nest, so set the tins some place where the ants will find it but out of the way so you don't have to look at the ant swarm. Usually ants send out scouts, and when a scout ant find abundant food, like those tins, they will mark a scent trail back to their best so they can find it again -- if you clean around this area with anything or wet you will destroy the scent trail, so mop before you set down the borax peanut butter and not after. Make sure there are no other sources of food for the ants so they will go for the borax pb.
...oh, one of the symptoms that the borax is working is that ants will increasingly seek out water, so be prepared for that, and if you don't want them to swarm your faucet maybe leave out a cap of water for them, near the borax.
>BLM that isn't Black Live Matter
That's an acronym I ain't heard in a long while.
How does this kill predators, it's a landmine, wouldn't have a 50/50 chance of killing prey animals too?
Why would you use any indiscriminate killing vector to control predators?
it i were to guess i'd say predators would have a larger mass so you'd be able to make the mines detonate on the corr3xt target about 7/10 times
>Anti-tank mines, but for animals
"Cyanide bomb" sounds pretty terrifying. Can we use it as a means of chemical warfare?
It won't be very effective, cyanide isn't that poisonous compared to chemical warfare agents, also here it is in solid form.
Feds can put cyanide traps along public trails but I get arrested for boobytrapping my porch to protect it from package thieves. Typical.
The package thieves are a protected species that has more of a right to be here than you, chud.
Glitterbangs are funnier though.
booby-trapping your property has been a crime since before your parents were born
These things are fricking crazy, I have heard about them before. They have killed children before. Basically its just a fricking cyanide land mine to indiscriminately kill predators.
Sheep lives matter! Think of the profit margins of hicks that are too lazy to manage their shit properly, libtard! They lose $5000 to stray dogs and $1000 to wolves and coyotes yearly out of their six figure net earnings! AMERICA IS NOT ABOUT THIS!
And don’t get me started on how fricking invasive wolves reduce deer populations so much that we can’t have hunting season without them becoming endangered! How else are we supposed to fund conservation? TAXES!?
maybe we should use some of the money israel is using to kill civillians
or some of the money lockheed martin is scamming the usaf out of
or
>american “conservatives”: i’d rather have cyanide mines in the park than less broken fighter jets and peace in the middle east.
>peace in the middle east
Achievable if we leave them alone
Sooner or later they'll just genocide one another till one person remains
they've has long enough, and all the guns and gym equipment we could manage to ship. they should piss or get off the pot
...Why was B.L.M. doing wildlife stuff in the first place!?
Black lives matter you chud
That doesn't answer his question moron
bureau of land management
I know because I watched the white lotus
kek, I knew BLM stands for Bureau of Land Management because Stiffler's mom was banging one in White Lotus. I highly recommend watching the first season of White Lotus if you are stuck somewhere cold and gray, as it's set in Hawaii with a lot of lush scenery and nice jungle music. The beginning of Snakes of a Plane have a lot of wide shots of Maui Hawaii too, but then they got on the plane and it's just plane interior and CGI snakes. I was so disappointed to find out that the Palm Suite in White Lotus wasn't real, that room look so comfy with all the palms.
Black people were being killed by cyanide bombs when they were just out jogging