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Out of the Blue
[Aug 04, 2009, 09:35 am ET] – Share – Viewing Comments

We were noticing a few ants finding their way into the kitchen, so we called the exterminator to take a look. When I explained that we occasionally saw as many as a dozen at a time, it seemed like he was trying not to laugh. Apparently we are not infested, nor are we in danger of having our house destroyed by carpenter ants (our house is brick to boot). He did a little spraying outside just to make the trip worthwhile, but he told us we were just seeing little probes from what he called "picnic ants," and he made it clear that if we had a real ant problem, we'd know it.

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Re: Out of the Blue
Aug 4, 2009, 09:59

MTechnik

Re: Out of the Blue Aug 4, 2009, 09:59

Aug 4, 2009, 09:59

MTechnik

We had ants for a while. Because the back yard is full of 'em, some were bound to try and see what was inside.

I'd go out there, find the line of ants going up the stucco side of the house until they'd reach the asbstos siding, and sneak under it into little gaps into the home. Well, I found that diatomaceous earth (same stuff the use in pool filters) is food safe (for our dog) but deadly to ants that crawl across it.

Just plug the holes with a bit of the diatomaceous earth, wait 3 or 4 days, find the next hole they were streaming in through, and plug that. Repeat for about 8 times, and they showed us all the holes, we plugged them. No more ants. No exterminator.