BoysVsGirls
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Ya'll just mad cuz you can't make a completely pointless topic and get away with 3 pages of feedback.
I Freaking Hate Ants
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Mr.Mo":81vgy8ol said:
No, what most people don't realise that pesticide sprays such as Raid and HotShot only paralyze the insects until they die. The spray virtually 'freezes' them until they live out their life span (which typically for ants is only a few days).
Worker ants (also known as drones I believe), do not consume any type of food needed for survival, so the spray isn't going to effect them internally. Instead they carry the food along their trails and bring it back to the colony's Queen (whos sole purpose is to feed and reproduce). The rest of the ants are just there for life support.
Why do you think companies have made ant 'traps' consisting of poisionous food that is able to be carried back to the Queen? Terminate the problem at the source. If the Queen dies, so does the colony.
Ant traps are the key here, put them all over your house BEFORE ants show up. I've done this for the past few years, and it's worked wonders. Late winter/early spring I set them up all over, and I suppose they take the food back to their communities and kill the source before it really takes off. One year I forgot to set them up pre-emptively, so I set up traps after the ants got there. They stopped showing up a couple weeks later. But when I do set them up early, I hardly ever see them.
Put a couple extra traps in your kitchen, ants love kitchens.
Put a couple extra traps in your kitchen, ants love kitchens.
Erichermit
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If these drones apparently dont eat, then WHAT do they use for sustenance?
Title Loan Man
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I'd like to take this moment to remind everyone that ants have a very real purpose in this world.
Well, unless you prefer having dead bodies lying around. I guess that would make them useless.
Maybe it's the environmentalist in me taking over, but I pretty much ignore all "pests" that break into my home. If I see an ant or a spider, I just step over it and mosey on my way.
Well, unless you prefer having dead bodies lying around. I guess that would make them useless.
Maybe it's the environmentalist in me taking over, but I pretty much ignore all "pests" that break into my home. If I see an ant or a spider, I just step over it and mosey on my way.
Title Loan Man
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Hey, humans aren't the only animals that kick ass when things invade their home. If you don't believe me, try rooming with a grizzly. Something tells me that your biggest worry won't be whether it eats your momma's home-baked brownies or not.
But, from me personally, I try to show some mercy and ignore them until they become a real threat (which almost never happens).
But, from me personally, I try to show some mercy and ignore them until they become a real threat (which almost never happens).
Title Loan Man
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Hey, I aim to please. :thumbsup:
what advice was that? and why the f* i would room with a grizzly? I have something called commen sense.
I kill them when I see them. Show no mercy! Specially spiders, if it aint them, its me. I don't trust those things in my sleep.
all that aside, I only kil them at my house. If they are outside, I don't touch, unless they are spiders. I hate fucking spiders.
I kill them when I see them. Show no mercy! Specially spiders, if it aint them, its me. I don't trust those things in my sleep.
all that aside, I only kil them at my house. If they are outside, I don't touch, unless they are spiders. I hate fucking spiders.
Erichermit
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Spiders? DOnt kill spiders!
Spiders are like your own special pest control that lives in your house. They dont get in your food or anything, becuase they eat the other bugs. A spider will catch houseflies for you and the sort, unless it's overrun with em, spiders are good. I never kill a spider in my house unless it looks venemous.
Spiders are like your own special pest control that lives in your house. They dont get in your food or anything, becuase they eat the other bugs. A spider will catch houseflies for you and the sort, unless it's overrun with em, spiders are good. I never kill a spider in my house unless it looks venemous.
Title Loan Man
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That of the good variety, apparently. You should read his post closer
I really, really hope that was a satirical remark.
I generally approach animals in a "How would I want to be treated?" manner. The Golden Rule applies beyond humans, you know.
I was messing around with that statement :PTitle Loan Man said:That of the good variety, apparently. You should read his post closer
I really, really hope that was a satirical remark.
Your point is? :P I knew you were going to say that. Notice what I said;Title Loan Man said:
"all that aside, I only kill them at my house." Which applies to humans and all creatures, as "univited guests", which can be interpted as "intruders", which gives me every right to kill them :P.
As for spiders, I wasn't clear, when I said outside my house I meant the outside area like the balcony and thefront enterance.
And I don't kill the ones that don't bite, the one with the long legs but very skinny is actually good to have around, but we don't have those. We have spiders like Brown Recluse and worse. I'm not taking the chance of getting bit on my sleep or leaning against a wall. I kill them out of fear so yeah :P
Title Loan Man
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Eh, sometimes it's difficult to see if you're being satirical or serious on a board.
Oh, and living in FL, we know a thing or two about poisonous/venemous animals. Don't fuck with those guys - they always mean business.
Oh, and living in FL, we know a thing or two about poisonous/venemous animals. Don't fuck with those guys - they always mean business.
I know. If its a poisinious animal at my house, I will just get my bb-gun :P or call animal control, w/e works.My Personal Info":3ucahm6t said:
Spiders are something else. We usually spray them and let them die off and then clear their webs and all insects out so they don't have a reason to comeback
Erichermit
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Title Loan Man said:That of the good variety, apparently. You should read his post closer
I really, really hope that was a satirical remark.
I generally approach animals in a "How would I want to be treated?" manner. The Golden Rule applies beyond humans, you know.
Reminds me how today I saw a spider almost invisibly small, about the size of the head of a pen, (i'd say about 2mm long or something). I could have killed it or blown it away for fun, but instead I put it on my pen and then let it crawl onto the wall.
Ants are the reason my Dreamcast got fried. They crawled into the air vents while it was on for a while, and they all burned to death. And the bodies melted or something, cause my dreamcast burst aflame when I turned it off, then on. It was kinda funny. But I hate ant's, cause they wrecked a perfectally good copy of Jet Grind Radio. :-/