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RainydayNE -> RE: attack of the ants (2/27/2009 5:04:41 AM)
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my current apartment was found to have a MASSIVE colony underneath. and the ants moved up into our apartments because of tons and tons of rain. it was so bad, you could see masses of them on the walls, like this moveing little mud swatches. they'd be crawling on everything; it was terrible.
and this colony was attempting to move because soldiers were coming with them. i was looking at the big winged ones going "holy cripes why did they bring soldiers?!" well the exterminator chick said that it was more than likely because their colony under the building was flooded/damaged and they were bringing the soldiers to help them move upstairs. =p yagh
we battled with those things for AEONS. i called the management, flipping out because there were skillions of ants everywhere and they just said "well, you coudl just go buy some spray," and that is not our responsibility, especially since they were all over the building.
they finally got off their butts and sent maintenance and an exterminator. they tried stupid ant hotels, and this bait that smelled like fish food (it made my apartment smell like a zoo for a week or so and did absolutely NOTHING about the ants)
part of the problem, too, i imagine was that i have a dog who has food and water in a bowl sitting in the open, so that was probably a proverbial oasis to the ants. the dogfood was relocated and we started putting down some of the aforementioned home remedies. they worked for a while but the ants found all sorts of weird places to come in.
FINALLY the exterminator brought some kind of gel and put it down all along the edges of the carpet and a little ways UNDER the carpet.
perimeter sprays would not have worked in this case because the ants were literally UNDER the buildign and were coming up from under it.
the gel under the carpet worked really well, and the ants went away after i dunno how many months. i'm dreading a possible return, but luckily i'm moving out of here :)
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