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05-08-2007, 09:27 AM
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Let me give you a little back ground. Through out my front yard I have about 7 big ant hills and dozens of small ant hills. I have never had a problem with ants until this year.
I have young kids, cats and a dog so I want to stay away from poison.
I did a little looking around on the net and I found that baby powder works on ants. It is supposed to block the pores on their skin (which I read they breath threw) and when they walk over the powder they will not be able to find their way back to the ant hill. Apparently it stops them from leaving a chemical trail which they follow back home. So I guess the idea is that the powder blocks their pores, slowly killing them or it blocks or masks their chemical trail so they can't find their way back to the mound.....thus they get lost and starve.....then the mound will starve without ants bringing back food for it.
Either way this is the first round between me and the ants. I think the neighbors think I am nuts spreading all this white powder around my yard. I bought 15 pounds of baby powder last night to fight with. 
My personal war vs the ants using WMD (aka baby powder).
If you have any "proven" methods to get rid of ants please post them, but remember no poison please......and needless to say NO explosives or flame throwers!!!
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05-08-2007, 11:08 AM
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Originally Posted by Hunter368  and needless to say NO explosives or flame throwers!!! | Well that killed MY idea....  | |
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05-08-2007, 11:14 AM
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Country:  | My mum used to use diluted washing up liquid - same sort of principle - remove the trails for the ants to follow. But we had a large stone patio, and ant's, supposedly, don't like travelling over dried washing liquid. Not very eco-friendly though. | |
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05-08-2007, 11:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Hunter368 If you have any "proven" methods to get rid of ants please post them, but remember no poison please......and needless to say NO explosives or flame throwers!!! | Now it just became boring.....
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05-08-2007, 11:55 AM
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05-08-2007, 12:00 PM
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05-08-2007, 12:33 PM
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05-08-2007, 12:36 PM
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05-08-2007, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Matt308 Where the hell do you buy baby powder in 15lb lots? | I didn't I went into Walmart and bought everything they had on the shelves!
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05-08-2007, 12:54 PM
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05-08-2007, 01:31 PM
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Did you ever see the show from "Married with Children" when Al Bundy was trying to kill that rabbit in his backyard? Thats me. Those little bastards are history.............. 
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05-08-2007, 01:47 PM
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05-08-2007, 01:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Matt308 I wish I had been the cashier at WalMart. | She probably thought I had some sort of heat rash over my entire body or something or maybe that I wear diapers.
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05-08-2007, 01:57 PM
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