[BlindTlk] Something is bugging me!

Tue May 7 21:29:10 UTC 2019

Hello Jim,

Since the ants usually live outside even when the pest control folks spray 
for them inside and outside, they still come back.
One can purchase poison sprays and powders, or hire pest control folks to 
spray, but ants usually keep returning seasonally. My pest control guy told 
me that they typically can never eradicate the ants. They just deal with 
each invasion as it comes.

We have dealt with nests outside, had the pest control guy put stuff along 
the foundations numerous times, sprayed using store-bought sprays, used 
various ant powders, inside and out, all to no long-term avail.

Personally, I don't like having all those poisonous concoctions in my 
environment.
So, since none of them seem to work better than the nontoxic alternatives, I 
have opted to mix up my own nontoxic solution.

I mix up about half a cup of water with two teaspoons of sugar and two 
teaspoons of borax.
Then, I pour that liquid onto a slice of bread which I place on a piece of 
plastic wrap. This makes it easy for the ants to climb onto.
I leave this out on the counter for a couple of days.
The ants take crumbs of the wet bread back to their nest and they die from 
eating it.
I just leave it out in the area where the ants were seen running about.
It usually only takes a couple of days. The bread is usually dried out by 
then, I have a very warm dry kitchen.
If I want it out a day or so longer and the bread is dry, I just tip a bit 
more of the mixture on it.
I buy the borax at my local supermarket.

Also, I have heard that leaving out plain, dry oatmeal is also effective, 
since the ants eat it and then it swells up inside them and kills them.
I am going to try this solution and see if it works.
I'll keep you posted.
Let us all know what you try and what works. :)

Warmly,
Heather
-----Original Message----- 
From: Jim Portillo via BlindTlk
Sent: Monday, May 6, 2019 10:25 PM
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Cc: Jim Portillo
Subject: Re: [BlindTlk] Something is bugging me!

The problem is that the folks who were looking couldn’t find a trace or 
couldn’t track where the ants were coming from. It is a weird deal. I don’t 
have them right now, but I cleaned very well with Lysol. That is supposed to 
kill ants.

Sent from my iPhone 7!

> On May 6, 2019, at 7:45 PM, Anitra Webber via BlindTlk 
> <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> When I get ants they go in my dog's food. He doesn't want to eat so I know 
> to check his bowl. They will be crawling all over and even get on me 
> sometimes. I pay an exterminator to spray inside and outside. They also 
> put a pot of poison under the kitchen sink that tastes good to ants under 
> the kitchen sink. They go under there to look for drops of water from the 
> pipes. So they take the poison to share with the colony. Ants are likely 
> to come in your kitchen if there is any kind of food they can get to 
> whether it is crumbs on the floor or a little bit of spilled syrup on the 
> counter. You can keep your food safe from bugs by putting it in airtight 
> containers.
>
> It's important to find out where they are coming from. I had a big colony 
> in my back yard and they were coming in under the door. The eterminator 
> sprayed a whole bunch of poison directly on the ants that were running 
> around outside and inside, as well as down in the hole they were living 
> in. That took care of the problem. I have the exterminator come about 
> every 3 months just in case there are bugs I don't know about. I had 3 
> wasp nests in my sheds. I didn't know about them until the exterminator 
> told me. All I knew was that my dog was afraid of the sheds. But after she 
> sprayed the nests the problem was solved.
> Anitra Webber
>
>    On Monday, May 6, 2019, 1:05:30 PM MDT, Jim Portillo via BlindTlk 
> <blindtlk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>
> OK, so that was a play on words. I have a question about something I have 
> never dealt with.
> It turns out that some days ago, some cited friends who were here saw some 
> ants in my kitchen counter, and on the counter near the stove. Obviously, 
> they are quite small, and there weren’t many. However, they are showing up 
> and not going away. We cannot trace where they are coming from,
> My friends are gone, and now I am at a loss as to how to handle what might 
> be an ant problem. We have sprayed, but there are still a few that show 
> up. What are some good techniques for dealing with this?
>
> Sent from my iPhone 7!
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