help me with my dumb ants (not smart ones)
Posted by Anonymous on Nov 29, 2007 · Member since Dec 1969 · 11789 posts
the ants have invaded my bathroom
I dont know if theyrecoming for water or what, but they wont leave. Its not very many, and normally it doesnt bother me because theyre just doing there thing.
How do I get them to go away without killing any of them?
everytime I wash one away in the sink I feel sad
hmmmm...tippy toe around.
:)
if youve got ants, youve got wet wood somewhere...that would be the biggest concern. find the soggy wood, then deal w/ the ants, otherwise, they aint goin' nowhere.
they come in from the top ofmy shower....so i guess that might be wet
Id say Im concerned...but I rent, and therefore am not
Ahh....just go ahead and make them your pets. Buy a few bones, balls, little beds to put around the bathroom. People actually PAY money for little ant farms....damn...you got yours for free! You can even take a few of them for walks and car rides to the beach on a nice day.... :)
Try this. You can leave the bicarb out if you don't need to cleanse deep, and just use water and vinegar and a little more essential oil. It's the smell of lavendar and tea tree oil that they hate! It will keep them away for several days; you can even wipe the floor down with it.
http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=19610.0
If you try this please let me know how it goes.
My ants hated cinnamon. After one application to the crevices they were coming in through, they were gone for good. (Not dead, they went away and didn't come back.)
http://vegweb.com/index.php?topic=18372.0
wil try last 2 recommendations, and if that doesnt work Im going with Daves advice
Aargh! I hate dealing with ants. One thing that often works pretty well is sprinkling a good amount of baby powder in the spot where the ants are entering. I'm not sure what it is, but they don't like to cross a thick line of baby powder. I've bought the lavender scented baby powder, but I think it works with regular, also. (Maybe, though, as yabbitgirl was saying, it works best with the lavender baby powder...hmmm) I've used the baby powder pretty successfully at a couple of apartments. Good luck!
Ahh....just go ahead and make them your pets. Buy a few bones, balls, little beds to put around the bathroom. People actually PAY money for little ant farms....d**n...you got yours for free! You can even take a few of them for walks and car rides to the beach on a nice day.... :)
I'm glad to see your "warning" has not taking away your sense of humor Dave! Oi! You gave me the giggles--I can just see AC putting little beds made out of match boxes around his bathroom w/ little water/food disher here and there! Do ant's play fetch?
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they come in from the top ofmy shower....so i guess that might be wet
Id say Im concerned...but I rent, and therefore am not
Sounds like the rare genus of ants called "peepus tomus antsises". you'll have to stop bathing alltogether, any sign of nudity, and they will never leave. :(
They're probably looking for water. My boyfriend gets ant invasions any time there's much of a drought, and when I was livin' at an animal sanctuary in the desert in the middle of July... I couldn't get the ants out of the bathroom.
There are a lot of tricks of sprinkling a line of _____ that they won't cross. It seems to include everything remotely spicy or chemical. Baking soda, baby powder, cayenne, paprika, cinnamon.
Our ants were super ants though. They stop at nothing. You see, if it's food they're after, they can always go look elsewhere. But if it's a drought, your bathroom's the only place... we resorted to killing the poor little guys. I resisted until the bitter end. All the "natural" ways to kill ants aren't so glamorous either; they might be natural, but they sure aren't humane.
It really depends on what kind of ant it is, but we had sugar ants (I don't remember the species but they come mostly for sugar and water but live outside), and the only thing we found to work was rubbing canola oil over the area where they entered the kitchen counter. I did a little test where I spread a line of canola oil straight through an "ant street" that went across our wall, and they stopped and didn't cross it. Overall, they will keep coming back to look for whatever they need, so most solutions are temporary.