You suck suck suck suck suck suck suck! I wish you would stay the fuck out of my house. —Go Terrorize a Picnic Somewhere

This article appears in Jun 23-29, 2011.

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  4. ..why do peeps hate ants so much..roaches,mice,bedbugs,earwigs,spiders etc. i can see..ants meh 🙂

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  5. OP, entice the ants by placing sweets (sugar, honey) near your neighbour’s house. Once the ants find a stable food supply, they’ll start going over there instead. Works wonders.

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  6. YES! These cocksuckers have infested my flat (3rd floor) I can’t tell where the F they are coming in from either! I bought some bait traps yesterday but the fuckers are marching right past them. I HATE THEM!!!

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  7. If the ants are anything like the one in Ivan’s link, then you’re definitely going to need more than some Raid. A flamethrower works wonders. 😛

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  10. Ants are extremely easy to get rid of. Just use Raid Ant Killer that comes in a small red bottle with a yellow lid. A few drops where you see ants and they take it back to the queen and it kills the whole colony. Every time I’ve had ants, I do this and they are gone within 2 days.

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  11. Keep anything sweet (baking supplies, etc) in big sealed plastic containers! They attacked me last year too, but I could follow their path. I found that the traps didn’t work, but big globs of the liquid poison stuff did. They were in my cupboards and things which was good so I could put the poison down and not worry about the kitteh. They were gone within a week or so when I got the good stuff and sealed up any food. It’s a real pain in the ass though, I hear ya OP.

    http://themetapicture.com/media/funny-ante…

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  12. I had ants for all of April-May, and they bugged me -climbing up the furniture looking for food, but I still mind them much less than most other insects. They finally dwindled this month, prob due to the little traps I got. Meh -annoying, but not the worst

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  13. my cat just watches them walk across the floor. he’s death on any other bug in the house (oh just give him a moth to chase down!)…but ants, nope. they just watch them walk by. only thing I can figure is they taste yucky cause he’ll eat a house fly, spider, anything but an ant.

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  14. i feel for you o.p., i got those little red motherfuckers in my cave. i kill 100, then next day, there are twice that. i have tried just about every trick i know, and checked the net, and even called p.c.o. about it. no fucking luck anywhere.most places have been inaded by these things, are still going to be infested, even after fumagation.

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  15. “red bottle, yellow cap”

    that comment is right on the money.
    remember to put it IN the ants path.
    Not “near’ it.

    Just watch the little buggers for a few minutes & you will see the route they’re taking . Put a little of it right on the floor & I use a beer cap full touching the stuff on the route they’re using. they will drain that over night,refill, by night 3 maybe an occassional ant. problem solved.

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  16. My building sprays for ants every spring, thank FUCK.

    I had ants at work. They were CRAWLING ALL OVER ME (no joke) as I sat at my desk working. Apparently, though, that wasn’t important enough to get the ant sprayers in.

    If I had’ve brought raid or ant traps, I would’ve gotten in shit.

    Kinda how the window in my office is going to break at any moment when someone tries to close it. I put it on the OH&S report, but apparently the solution is to do nothing and have the glass shatter on someone’s hands because they don’t want to put the money out to fix the window.

    Yeah, when someone’s hands get all ripped to shreds because the glass pane brakes on them and they sue, it’ll surely cost them a fuck of a lot more in a PI settlement.

    No wonder I don’t work there anymore.

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  18. Yeah, I’d be sitting there and I’d feel this creepy crawly feeling and look down and I’d have ants all over me.

    And then I’d get the creepy crawly feeling even when there were no ants. *shudder*

    Oh well — someone else’s problem now! 😀

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  19. better an ant, istead of those fucking ticks. just thinking about them, makes my skin itch.

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  20. I used the red bottle stuff. You guys forgot to mention to not apply it directly to your floor, counter top, etc, it’s really hard to clean off once it hardens. Use a margarine container lid or something. It worked for me.

    Also make sure you do your dished every day and don’t leave any food or crumbs anywhere.

    Good luck OP.

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  22. The ant, just another fascinating creature on this planet! They’ve been around for about 125 million years, have around 20,000 different species and grace just about every nook and cranny that isn’t on Antarctica.
    Ant colonies are like a single organism with the queen being the nerve centre. A queen will tell her workers what their particular task is by use of pheromones from nest-building, larvae-feeding and foraging. They act in unison as if they were one animal and genetically, they are.

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