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Posted By: phillyflash In Response To: off topic...but this one's driving me buggy!! (Rick K.)
Friday, 15 July 2005, at 3:46 p.m.
I just happened to have had a similar problem (tho not as bad) with the tiny ants. There's a formula in a household tips book I used, calling for mixing borax (not boric acid) with sweetened condensed milk to form balls, and place them around the house. If you have kids and/or pets, you could put the stuff into tightly sealed containers with holes punched into the lids so the buggers can get inside. According to the book, the ants "think" they've found a tasty (yet poisonous) treat, and they'll soon stop bothering you. I didn't have any sweetened condensed milk, so I just used about a tablespoon of evaporated milk, added some sugar, and approx a tablespoon of borax, mixed em in a shallow bowl, put it against the wall of the room they were invading, they soon started swarming on it and carting little pieces back to their nest, and by the next afternoon (this wednesday) there were absolutely none. Haven't seen any since. :)
> Maa-Maw, if you want to nuke this one, that's fine.
> I know it's off-topic.
> BUT...'ve got a problem that I can't seem to solve. What is it?
> Bugs. Real ones. (not the computer kind)
> You see, we've gotten these teeny tiny little ants that love sugar invade
> the kitchen cabinets.
> I've tried ant traps, they ignore them. Poison, they come back.
> I can just see someone here saying, "just put all the sugar up,
> dummy!"
> I've tried. I put the sugar and cereal in big zip-lock baggies. They
> chewed holes through them.
> Put everything sweet in tupperware-like containers. They're so tiny, they
> find the littlest crack or gap and come marching right on in...much like
> my in-laws whenever I BBQ. (grin)
> I don't know where else to turn. I looked up a solution on the internet
> (put a small dab of jelly on a saucer. Put a ring of yeast around the
> jelly. The ants eat the yeast to get to the jelly...and they explode.
> Didn't work.)
> I really don't know where else to ask this buggy question, so I came here.
> Anyone have any solutions????
> Thanks,
> Rick K.
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