We've been having ant problems for a while, tiny little things, totally uninterested in any of the commercial baits we've tried. But they love my peanut butter. To try and keep them out of it, I set the kitchen bench legs in tubs of water. To our surprise, when I came to make my lunch sandwiches, the peanut butter container was surrounded by a ring of ants!!!!!!

So I've taken some pics of them in the hope somebody can identify them, and come up with a containment policy.


so they are roughly 2mm long, hard to get them sharp as it's low light and they keep moving.

This is the best image I have.


Next trick is to make our own bait out of borax and peanut butter, but we keep forgetting to buy the borax,

I use Amdro to kill ants, just sprinkle some granules near the nests and the workers take it to the queen who eats it dies and no more ants. Really good stuff.

Costs a fortune works a treat:
www.bunnings.com.au/our-range

Ha ha snap

"Antrid"
Although seeing we cant send "our" honey to WA (without worthless bits of paper) cause your bees are "special" we sent our ants!!!

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hilly said..
Costs a fortune works a treat:
www.bunnings.com.au/our-range

That's the stuff
little baskets use antrid for breath freshener, does nothing to them at all

yep, these little buggers just ignore antrid.

blowtorch

Use forch brake cleaner spray it from the start of the off feckers then follow the line like billy piper :-)

Argentine ants, orange in colour. Chlorpyrifos gets rid of the little phuckers. Fortune 500.
Get it from farm supplies out at baragup. Same road as spud shed. Kills most everything, ants, spiders, dogs, cats annoying neighbours and noisy bogans!

Im having trouble with these little aholes too. They don't taste too good mixed in with muesli, and they have no trouble smelling where the food is.

Half the problem is i can't find the nest. I'll have to give the amdro a go.

I follow these guys formula with great temporary success
bugsforbugs.com.au/2017/01/ant-control/

Decep

I have the same ones. $100 Amdro no good, Antrid no good blah blah.

I only get them inside for about 4-6 weeks of the year if the weather is about right for them so I just given up - for one month I will have ants if there is crumbs on the bench or floor so - fvk it.

Ya got 10 tonnes of cement Decrepit ?

You need to reduce numbers until the nest is unable to support itself. Set some peanut butter on the kitchen sink. Wait until it's swarming with ants and wipe them up and wash them down the drain. Do this about four times or until they stop coming. I have done this with total success over the years.

You need to reduce numbers until the nest is unable to support itself. Set some peanut butter on the kitchen sink. Wait until it's swarming with ants and wipe them up and wash them down the drain. Do this about four times or until they stop coming. I have done this with total success over the years.

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Mark _australia said..
Decep

I have the same ones. $100 Amdro no good, Antrid no good blah blah.

I only get them inside for about 4-6 weeks of the year if the weather is about right for them so I just given up - for one month I will have ants if there is crumbs on the bench or floor so - fvk it.

Surprised amdro no good got mine in a day.

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hilly said..
Surprised amdro no good got mine in a day.

Different species perhaps?

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decrepit said..

hilly said..
Surprised amdro no good got mine in a day.

Different species perhaps?

The ones i have are little bastards. Reasonably slow moving, attracted to sweet food more than anything else.

ive heard them referred to as sugar ants or forager ants. I wouldn't mind them so much if they were just finding crumbs etc. Unfortunately they love finding their way into packets of food as well. Which puts them on the exterminate on sight list.

I have them too,
A mate reckons 1" concrete over the whole property would stop them

We have plenty of skinks around our place but not many ants. Maybe there is a correlation.

Quite enjoying this murderous thread the amdro has worked for me but on the little black ants the ones that flock when you leave a can of coke out.

This thread has actually raised a couple of philosophical questions.....

Dear vegans do you kill ants? Other insects ?

So I can imagine standing at the bench with my lettuce wrap and dropping shredded carrot and an ant crawls up and eats it ,,,, do I squash it or maybe bait it knowing full well that it will carry the amdro back to the nest,, once arriving at the nest and enroute it will "kiss " every other ant heading towards it , spreading amdro all over the other little ants faces henceforth ensuring their demise,,, things really take a darker turn for the ant upon return to the nest as he poisons all the adult ants even the ones that look after the queen and larvae,,, these ants now spread the amdro to the furthest reaches of the nest ,, I can almost hear the larvae screaming from here............

All in all quite a drawn out and painful way to go.

Anyway something to think about,

Petrol is actually quite humane

Never seen them till 2 years ago. Microscopic little pricks.

Bought ant rid baits 4 days ago and they are disappearing fast. Cost 3 to 5 dollars

track back to the nest, do one of those molten aluminium sculpture things

Saw how they teleport this morning, we left a peanut butter/borax bait on the bench top overnight, success at last they went for it. Checked around my moats, and one of them had scores of ants forming a bridge across the narrowest part, sneaky little buggers.

They are in plague proportions where I live on the sunny coast, like I never seen before, reckon it's because it's been so dry for so long ants are freaking out abit

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decrepit said.. >>>> had scores of ants forming a bridge across the narrowest part, sneaky little buggers.

Just realised what I said here, am I showing my age?
Do any of you younger people know what a "score" is? Numerically speaking, that is.
I'm sure you have a lot of other meanings these days!

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decrepit said..

decrepit said.. >>>> had scores of ants forming a bridge across the narrowest part, sneaky little buggers.

Just realised what I said here, am I showing my age?
Do any of you younger people know what a "score" is? Numerically speaking, that is.
I'm sure you have a lot of other meanings these days!

"The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away."
Donald Trump
Not.

It looks like you will leave those numbers in your wake Capt'n. Good stuff!

Well they've all gone now, they feasted on the peanut butter and borax for a couple of days, then slowly disappeared. Either they've filled their larder or they're all dead.

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decrepit said..

decrepit said.. >>>> had scores of ants forming a bridge across the narrowest part, sneaky little buggers.

Just realised what I said here, am I showing my age?
Do any of you younger people know what a "score" is? Numerically speaking, that is.
I'm sure you have a lot of other meanings these days!

Still not sure if a bees dick is bigger or smaller than a p00fteenth ?

^^^^They are both about the same size, only a pubic hair in it really.