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“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
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i'd like to!
preciate the good advice. what i'm doing now ain't working.
i'll try some of the solutions, maybe in combination. can't hurt.
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Buy a bag of tick granules for 15 bucks and put them out around the base of your house. No new ants coming across.
I used to have a quarterly deal with terminix for inside pests for 80 a quarter. They never got rid of my ants completely. Half a bag of tick granules twice a year. No more ants and no more terminix. I have not seen 1 ant in my house since I started putting out the granules.
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They go through phases - water, grease/protein, sugar. Sounds like yours are in one of the first 2. Terro works OK when they're harvesting sugar. This stuff works always: Talstar P This.
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I'm trying a mix of peanut butter and borax on our ants since they seem to look for protein and fat. I also mixed in a little oil drained off from breakfast sausage. Will see how it works, but the ants are all over it right now. I cut a bunch of cardboard squares and dabbed them with the mix to place along their travel routes and at their mounds.
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I've done the peanut butter thing before and it worked pretty good.
Bon appétit SOB's!!!
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