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by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/04/2017, 9:12am PDT |
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Jack Bauer wrote:
I've tried throwing baking powder down all over the floor but it didn't work.
I've never heard of baking powder as a means to drive off or kill ants. The two things I understand are effective are boric acid and powdered chalk. You can use powdered chalk - available at hardware or construction supply stores - as a means to keep ants from crossing into an area. Boric acid is supposed to be useful in killing ants although it's most famous as a roach killer.
The chalk apparently is unpleasant to the ants so they avoid crossing it.
Boric acid acts like breathing in shards of glass.
When using boric acid for killing, you want to spread it out as a dust, say by turning the bottle upside down, standing up, then upside down to shake it up and creating stirred up particles in the bottle, then squeezing it as a bellows, aiming at the floor of the desired area to be treated so it falls like a light snow. If boric acid is "poured" down like in teaspoon quantities then it is treated by insects the way people treat large plowed-up snow banks: they avoid it and go around.
Also, both have to be replenished as they get dirty, contaminated or wear off, or if they are washed away or get wet.
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Help me Caltrops, I've got ants. by Jack Bauer 09/03/2017, 8:30pm PDT 
It's baking soda, not powder, numbnuts. by Horus Truthteller 09/03/2017, 8:36pm PDT
I can help you, Jack. by Eury 09/03/2017, 8:40pm PDT
Suicide is the practical solution for cockroaches. Ants are just a NT by wake up call. 09/03/2017, 8:45pm PDT
Have you tried Walmart? NT by Or is this the Archer base? 09/03/2017, 8:42pm PDT
Not an Archer thing, no. by Jack Bauer 09/03/2017, 8:44pm PDT
If you don't know what products walmart carries, then maybe you should just ask NT by your butler to deal with the ants? 09/03/2017, 10:32pm PDT
It's a half hour drive NT by Jack Bauer 09/03/2017, 11:53pm PDT
First off: CALM DOWN. The ants are just doing what ants do. by Ice Cream Jonsey 09/03/2017, 8:52pm PDT
They are black ants, yes. by Jack Bauer 09/03/2017, 8:54pm PDT
The ants aren't protesting the G20 summit. They don't have "goals" by C:New FolderTyrell Corporation 09/03/2017, 8:56pm PDT
Re: Help me Caltrops, I've got ants. by Bug Slayer 09/03/2017, 9:44pm PDT
Re: Help me Caltrops, I've got ants. by Mysterio, "Ant Crisis Line" 09/04/2017, 1:20am PDT
Burn them and burn them again by John C. Dvorak 09/04/2017, 1:53am PDT
Re: Help me Caltrops, I've got ants. by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/04/2017, 9:12am PDT
It's witches that won't cross chalk, Commander. NT by not ants 09/04/2017, 12:27pm PDT
Oh yes, chalk stops ants: check out this video by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/05/2017, 7:28am PDT
Problem solved, all Jack has to do is mark off what side of the bathroom belongs NT by to him and what side the ants. 09/05/2017, 8:55am PDT
Hopefully the shower and toilet are on the same side. by Worm 09/05/2017, 9:35am PDT
can clearly see ants crossing the chalk by Eurotrash 09/05/2017, 12:50pm PDT
You use chalk 2 force ants around some areas and into the kill zone, that's why NT by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/10/2017, 4:31pm PDT
They're ants. NT by Not the Viet Cong. 09/10/2017, 11:18pm PDT
I bought the Terro stuff at Walmart. by Jack Bauer 09/04/2017, 11:08pm PDT
Wow, I can't believe you didn't go with cream of wheat and chalk and boric acid. NT by YOUR FUNERAL, PAL 09/05/2017, 9:39am PDT
I think the Terro stuff worked with the baking soda. by Jack Bauer 09/09/2017, 10:37am PDT
Jack Bauer feels bad for killing ants. Jesus Christ by Eurotrash 09/11/2017, 5:39am PDT
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