OH GOD ANTS
I just woke up to find my computer desk crawling with ants! I have spent the last ten minutes squashing any I can see. I guess it's time to clear up all the empty drink cans and glasses and icy pole wrappers.
(oball needs Satan more than he needs me, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 21:48, 19 replies)

i noticed my first ant of the year yesterday
on my coffee table. my walls are crumbly and there's an old ant nest in the bedroom wall, which i thought i'd exterminated 3 years ago. apparently, they're coming back.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 21:50, closed)

I have lived in this house for four years with nary an ant to be seen
They started making incursions a couple of months ago, but this is the first time they've made it to my room. I'll have to buy some poison.

Oh well, hopefully they'll force us to keep the place a bit tidier.
(oball needs Satan more than he needs me, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 22:11, closed)

i think i've still got some in the cupboard
i'll have to fish it out and dust the little fuckers
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 22:19, closed)

Ant powder is shite
We have ants in our garden and they keep appearing under the path. Two years ago I pumped a load of mastic down there when I saw the first one of the year. They didn't show again until late the next year.

But some years ago, I was finding them in the house late on in the night. One of the kids leaving a half-eaten stick of rock on the dining table had them queueing in their droves. That was until I discovered Dethlac (sic)

Yes, it is a lacquer that causes death. I sprayed a line of it along the edge of the house, round the side and along the front. Along where the brickwork meets the ground.

I've not had a single ant in the house since. I applied it once in April, and that was it. It appears as a slightly shiny strip on the path, but apart from that it's pretty innocuous, it's pet and child friendly and is cheap.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 22:46, closed)

I put down some Ant-Rid
Don't know if we have DETHLAC here but I'll have a look if the Ant-Rid doesn't do the job. They seem to be clustering around it quite nicely at the moment though.

Also I posted "ANT INVASION OH SHIIIIIT" as my Facebook status and now my friends are quoting Adam Ant lyrics at me, which is really less than helpful.
(oball needs Satan more than he needs me, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 23:22, closed)

you ought to quote them shut the hell up
You can get Dethlac in Wilkinsons if you've got one near you. I'm not sure how it works, but I think they get it on their feet and then trample it all over the nest.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 23:47, closed)

Well, by "here"
I meant Australia. So I don't think there is a Wilkinson's near me, sorry.
(oball needs Satan more than he needs me, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 23:57, closed)

I don't think
Dethlac is a worldwide product.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 0:18, closed)

Not too worried about ants
but can you get an equivalent to stop big, hairy, bastard spiders coming in?
( stopmeandslapme Cometh the hour, cometh your mum, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 8:22, closed)

Try getting rid of the ants?
(Legion, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 11:48, closed)

dethlac is brilliant stuff
i'll have to ask mum to pick me some up when she goes shopping. this has the added bonus that she'll pay for the stuff and won't accept reimbursements.
( Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 14:16, closed)

Haha
I remember when we got ants at university.

I'd left a bag of sweets on the side. Came back after a few drinks with some girls, picked up the bag and said: "Can I offer you a...n ant?"

The bag was absolutely swarming.
( emvee cruor deo cruoris, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 22:09, closed)

if there's one thing ants absolutely do not like
it's lemon juice
( Mighty Nibus who dares gins | @nibus, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 23:24, closed)

and napalm
true fact.
(dozers, do fuck off ur a nob m8, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 23:27, closed)

My housemate
found a trail of them going across our kitchen floor, and decided the best way to get rid of them was to use spray-on cooking oil and a lighter as a makeshift flamethrower.
(oball needs Satan more than he needs me, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 23:42, closed)

I squirted WD40 into the cracks under the patio
and then set fire to it. It burned on the surface like a little gas burner, then as the flame went out it disappeared underground and then came out in a jet of fire like something from Backdraft.
( sandettie light vessel automatic New Twitter - @bollocksreally, Tue 30 Mar 2010, 23:53, closed)

Ha!
When I was a young 'un, we had a house in rural Scotland. All very nice, but if I left my window open in the summer, the Midges were unreal, and I decided enough was enough!
I took one can of antiperspirant and proceeded to torch the buggers.. Only problem being that it worked a little too well and I set fire to my Led Zeppelin poster, almost having a prolapse with fear.

Anyway, I've seen three ants in my kitchen today, never seen them in this house before either.. What is it with the ants all of a sudden, is it some kind of apocalypse?
(Sir Clitherington Smythe offers him yourself., Wed 31 Mar 2010, 2:07, closed)

I remember when I was about 9 walking back from school
When all of a sudden i felt a sharp pain on my left nipple.

Straight away I pulled open my school shirt to find a red ant with its pincers going for it on my nipple...

the bstard
(Dan dan dan They tik urh jerbs!!!, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 11:08, closed)

At the last place I lived
the ants were intermittent. You'd see one trundling in its efficient little anty way across the bathroom floor from time to time, but otherwise, no worries... Unless there was avocado about. I once dropped a small piece on the floor while eating sushi and picked it up less than five seconds later to discover it had been replaced with a black swarming ant cube, not dissimilar to miniaturized Borg.

Where I live now, the spiders eat them all.
(Legion, Wed 31 Mar 2010, 11:51, closed)