Teleporting micro ants

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decrepit
decrepit
WA
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WA, 12872 posts
9 Mar 2019 2:26pm
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,
Zuke
Zuke
901 posts
901 posts
9 Mar 2019 2:54pm
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.
hilly
hilly
WA
8120 posts
WA, 8120 posts
9 Mar 2019 2:58pm
Costs a fortune works a treat:
www.bunnings.com.au/our-range
hilly
hilly
WA
8120 posts
WA, 8120 posts
9 Mar 2019 2:58pm
Ha ha snap
ka43
ka43
NSW
3101 posts
NSW, 3101 posts
9 Mar 2019 6:19pm
"Antrid"
Although seeing we cant send "our" honey to WA (without worthless bits of paper) cause your bees are "special" we sent our ants!!!
elmo
elmo
WA
8890 posts
WA, 8890 posts
9 Mar 2019 4:32pm
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
decrepit
decrepit
WA
12872 posts
WA, 12872 posts
9 Mar 2019 4:44pm
yep, these little buggers just ignore antrid.
Tonz
Tonz
524 posts
524 posts
9 Mar 2019 4:47pm
blowtorch
THE PIN PULLER
THE PIN PULLER
WA
472 posts
WA, 472 posts
9 Mar 2019 4:52pm
Use forch brake cleaner spray it from the start of the off feckers then follow the line like billy piper :-)
pepe47
pepe47
WA
1382 posts
WA, 1382 posts
9 Mar 2019 5:04pm
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!
Subsonic
Subsonic
WA
3413 posts
WA, 3413 posts
9 Mar 2019 5:08pm
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.
HotBodMon
HotBodMon
NSW
612 posts
NSW, 612 posts
9 Mar 2019 8:08pm
I follow these guys formula with great temporary success
bugsforbugs.com.au/2017/01/ant-control/
Mark _australia
Mark _australia
WA
23647 posts
WA, 23647 posts
9 Mar 2019 5:25pm
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.

HotBodMon
HotBodMon
NSW
612 posts
NSW, 612 posts
9 Mar 2019 8:47pm
Ya got 10 tonnes of cement Decrepit ?
Shifu
Shifu
QLD
1997 posts
QLD, 1997 posts
9 Mar 2019 8:03pm
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.
Shifu
Shifu
QLD
1997 posts
QLD, 1997 posts
9 Mar 2019 8:03pm
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.
hilly
hilly
WA
8120 posts
WA, 8120 posts
9 Mar 2019 6:08pm
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.
decrepit
decrepit
WA
12872 posts
WA, 12872 posts
9 Mar 2019 7:23pm
hilly said..
Surprised amdro no good got mine in a day.


Different species perhaps?
Subsonic
Subsonic
WA
3413 posts
WA, 3413 posts
9 Mar 2019 9:42pm
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.
paulyNOR
paulyNOR
WA
59 posts
WA, 59 posts
9 Mar 2019 10:07pm
I have them too,
A mate reckons 1" concrete over the whole property would stop them
cisco
cisco
QLD
12365 posts
QLD, 12365 posts
10 Mar 2019 12:12am
We have plenty of skinks around our place but not many ants. Maybe there is a correlation.
Razzonater
Razzonater
2224 posts
2224 posts
9 Mar 2019 10:13pm
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
AusMoz
AusMoz
QLD
1514 posts
QLD, 1514 posts
10 Mar 2019 6:31pm
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


sn
sn
WA
2775 posts
sn sn
WA, 2775 posts
13 Mar 2019 10:40pm
track back to the nest, do one of those molten aluminium sculpture things
decrepit
decrepit
WA
12872 posts
WA, 12872 posts
14 Mar 2019 8:07am
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.
quikdrawMcgraw
quikdrawMcgraw
1221 posts
1221 posts
14 Mar 2019 8:10am
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
decrepit
decrepit
WA
12872 posts
WA, 12872 posts
14 Mar 2019 10:40am
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!
WazzaYotty
WazzaYotty
QLD
302 posts
QLD, 302 posts
14 Mar 2019 2:08pm
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!
decrepit
decrepit
WA
12872 posts
WA, 12872 posts
21 Mar 2019 11:19am
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.
Imax1
Imax1
QLD
4937 posts
QLD, 4937 posts
21 Mar 2019 2:12pm
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 ?
lotofwind
lotofwind
NSW
6451 posts
NSW, 6451 posts
21 Mar 2019 5:48pm
^^^^They are both about the same size, only a pubic hair in it really.
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