Ant Killer

[BigBear]

Boric Acid always seemed to work for me... Ants, roaches, spiders, kids, dogs, etc.

Can find it at any type shop: Walmart, Lowes, Ace Hardware, etc.

[Ah Pook]

Boric Acid always seemed to work for me... Ants, roaches, spiders, kids, dogs, etc.

Can find it at any type shop: Walmart, Lowes, Ace Hardware, etc.

Maybe I'll sprinkle some around the neighbors house too.

Used to use that to tan snake skins.

[BigBear]

If you really want to be mean, you can find the nest and put some grain on it... makes the ants explode.

Ammonia and Bleach work well also. (not mixed, used seperately....)

[SA Friday]

Did they get in the house? If so, vaccuum them up and clean any line they were walking to it's point of entry. Then go buy some of those traps with the granuals in them that the ants can take back to the nest with them. put it in one of their highways and wait a couple of days.

DONT use ammonia and bleach. I could get all technical on you about this, but suffice to say, it produces stuff that is very very bad for you and even minor exposure can cause bad ju-ju.

[Ah Pook]

I want to get mid-evil on their a$$!

The colony exploded this year. There are several big (3ft across) mounds. Acetone worked but just on the surface ants.

I got a little snout full of ammonia and bleach once. Not fun.

[arz]

Diatomaceous earth

cuts their exoskeleton and they 'bleed' to death.

[68Charger]

while the DE works as a natural remedy, it will not get the queen & kill off the whole colony...

I found that Amdro is the best for this.. they think it's food, and bring it back to the queen... as long as her taster is on vacation, she'll die, and the colony will, too. I got it at Ace hardware.. sprinkle it all around the mound & check the next day, repeat if any are still alive.
<Robert De Niro voice>I want to come back tomorrow, and piss on the colony! </Robert De Niro voice>

gasoline can work in a pinch (don't even need the match, just keep pouring it on the colony, and the vapors will fill it up... but takes more effort than Amdro

[StagLefty]

DONT use ammonia and bleach.

Isn't that what they used to make mustard gas back in the day ?

[SA Friday]

Isn't that what they used to make mustard gas back in the day ?

Mustard gas is made from nitrogen mustard or sulpher mustard, I forget which.

Depending on the mixed rates, type of bleach, and a couple other variables, you can get different products; chlorine gas, nitrogen trichloride, or hydrazine to name a few. All potential products are very bad to people, and the last two above are fairly unstable (potentially explosive) products.

Chlorine Gas is almost always one of the products and has been used as a chemical weapon for a very long time. Chlorine gas is denser than air so it will not float away on a calm day, but plumes close to the ground. Chlorine when breathed in wants to bond to other elements due to it's chemical nature, and it very aggresive about it. It tears down the inside of your lungs etc because of this. You breath enough in and you drown in your own blood.

For the most part, chlorine and flourine and the alkali earth metals, we don't play with in Gen chem lab in their pure forms at all. They are just too dangerous.