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Title: Look at what I found hiding in my basement!
Post by: john on January 24, 2004, 04:24:12 AM

(http://svjohn.trix.com/ants1.jpg)

Little bastarts woke up because the heat is on more now that I am home more often. Took me a week to find the nest.

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Post by: Laura on January 24, 2004, 07:39:55 AM

That's disgusting!

Laura

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Post by: cozy on January 24, 2004, 08:53:11 AM

GIT 'EM , GIT 'EM!!
My guess is you will use a seven second burst of Raid.

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Post by: JamesG on January 24, 2004, 08:59:41 AM

If those are carpenter ants, bug bomb them, and then carefully take the nest apart with a can of raid handy.
Make sure the tunnels don't extend into any part of the structure of the house. If it does call a pro, because otherwise you'll never get them all...
:(

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Post by: dmp221 on January 24, 2004, 09:05:50 AM

These OT non-motorcycle related posts are really beginning to "bug" me.
:lol:

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Post by: jake42 on January 24, 2004, 12:21:28 PM

hey john.. funny story.
when i moved into my house i kept finding them all over my kitchen everytime it warmed up. Finally found a pile of sawdust under the hollow core door leading to the basement. I took it out in the driveway and knocked it open with a hammer and crowbar and there ;must have been 3000 of them in there. Screw the Raid... Lighter and WD40 all the way... woo hoo.

Jake

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Post by: 70 Cam Guy on January 24, 2004, 03:32:08 PM

Thats freaking scary looking. I probably would have jumped 5 feet if I found that. At first glance I thought they were spiders and I am a wuss around spiders. heeby jeebies man :lol:

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Post by: ashman on January 24, 2004, 06:15:31 PM

Man those things are fugly. I hope we dont have those things down here in the South.

-ash

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Post by: john on January 24, 2004, 09:24:15 PM

Carpenter ants. They actually nested in the insulation. My house is made with southern yellow pine which is rather tough for a carpenter ant. Plus it' a sub colony of a much larger colony living in the cherry stump next to the house.

No wood damage at all :thumb: I sprayed them with ant & termite poison. Then I heard all these rice krispy noises coming from the insulation I pulled down, I realized the ants were inside the insulation so I moved it outside and it had thousands in there. Damndest thing I ever saw. Usually they nest up in a door or window -not fiberglass insulation.

Anyway not an ant in site today -not a single one :thumb: The house does smell like pioson but it's wearing off. Worth it IMHO.

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Post by: Seth on January 24, 2004, 10:11:16 PM

<cough> Don't have those in phoenix! <cough>
<When you gonna move? <cough>

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Post by: yamahonkawazuki on January 25, 2004, 12:21:23 AM

nah, theyve just got little ants roof rats, scorpions and tent city :mrgreen:

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