What have you done today? (Pt 2)

[odeon]

Worked. Sort of. That is, I was there. Some days should just be skipped.

[MissKitty]

 

Store stuff. Volunteer drama. Just lost two of my regulars and one was a trainer. 

[Queen Victoria]

As little as possible.  Turned the central A/C up to 77F, 25C.

[midlifeaspie]

Same meeting - 7.5 hours 

['andersom']

Together with my youngest sanded the frames of two mirrors I found in the second hand shop for €3.

Some dishes, some laundry, some phonecalls, some e-mailing. And, receiving a phonecall that makes me sad. I won't throw the towel into the boxing ring, but, right now, it is very tempting.

[odeon]

Spent most of the day in meetings.

['andersom']

Pondered on the ecologically sound mass murdering of ants.

My daughter thought planning a mass murder was fitting, for a vegetarian aspie.



Tried a yeast/sugar approach. The insects did not even touch the nice concoction I made them. 

I have yet to try the borax/sugar combo. Will let you know how that goes. I found another mound relatively close to the first one. The first one I refer to as Mecca. It's massive and all the ants flock to it. The second one is the suburbs. It's a little ways out, and more grass because it's not overpopulated yet

I spent today introducing kids to a blue tongued skink.

A solution popular in the South is to put grits on the ant pile before a rain.  They eat the grits and when they take in water, the grits explode in their stomachs.  I just usually draw a line with chalk on the threshhold and a little ways up the door jamb.  They've never crossed it yet.

This is a massive nest in my front yard. It's 3 ft across. They're bringing sand up to the surface and it's smothering out the grass. I found a second colony not far from the first so they're slowly overtaking my yard and the kids play out there all the time.

Can you rent an anteater from the zoo?

Update:

When the ants did not even touch my brown sugar / dried yeast treat, I dissolved it in water, and poured it into the nest, through various holes.

Now, the ants of that nest all are gone. Brushed away the pile they had made, filled a bit of the holes yesterday. No activity at all for a week now. Guess they all got a massive yeast infection. 

Today I treated another nest on this sweet alcoholforming fluid in the corridors of their nest. Hoping for great results again.

[Parts]

Pondered on the ecologically sound mass murdering of ants.

My daughter thought planning a mass murder was fitting, for a vegetarian aspie.



Tried a yeast/sugar approach. The insects did not even touch the nice concoction I made them. 

I have yet to try the borax/sugar combo. Will let you know how that goes. I found another mound relatively close to the first one. The first one I refer to as Mecca. It's massive and all the ants flock to it. The second one is the suburbs. It's a little ways out, and more grass because it's not overpopulated yet

I spent today introducing kids to a blue tongued skink.

A solution popular in the South is to put grits on the ant pile before a rain.  They eat the grits and when they take in water, the grits explode in their stomachs.  I just usually draw a line with chalk on the threshhold and a little ways up the door jamb.  They've never crossed it yet.

This is a massive nest in my front yard. It's 3 ft across. They're bringing sand up to the surface and it's smothering out the grass. I found a second colony not far from the first so they're slowly overtaking my yard and the kids play out there all the time.

Can you rent an anteater from the zoo?

Update:

When the ants did not even touch my brown sugar / dried yeast treat, I dissolved it in water, and poured it into the nest, through various holes.

Now, the ants of that nest all are gone. Brushed away the pile they had made, filled a bit of the holes yesterday. No activity at all for a week now. Guess they all got a massive yeast infection. 

Today I treated another nest on this sweet alcoholforming fluid in the corridors of their nest. Hoping for great results again.

Queen Victoria your dealing with fire ants?  If so I will tell my sister to give it a try

[Callaway]

Pondered on the ecologically sound mass murdering of ants.

My daughter thought planning a mass murder was fitting, for a vegetarian aspie.



Tried a yeast/sugar approach. The insects did not even touch the nice concoction I made them. 

I have yet to try the borax/sugar combo. Will let you know how that goes. I found another mound relatively close to the first one. The first one I refer to as Mecca. It's massive and all the ants flock to it. The second one is the suburbs. It's a little ways out, and more grass because it's not overpopulated yet

I spent today introducing kids to a blue tongued skink.

A solution popular in the South is to put grits on the ant pile before a rain.  They eat the grits and when they take in water, the grits explode in their stomachs.  I just usually draw a line with chalk on the threshhold and a little ways up the door jamb.  They've never crossed it yet.

This is a massive nest in my front yard. It's 3 ft across. They're bringing sand up to the surface and it's smothering out the grass. I found a second colony not far from the first so they're slowly overtaking my yard and the kids play out there all the time.

Can you rent an anteater from the zoo?

Update:

When the ants did not even touch my brown sugar / dried yeast treat, I dissolved it in water, and poured it into the nest, through various holes.

Now, the ants of that nest all are gone. Brushed away the pile they had made, filled a bit of the holes yesterday. No activity at all for a week now. Guess they all got a massive yeast infection. 

Today I treated another nest on this sweet alcoholforming fluid in the corridors of their nest. Hoping for great results again.

Queen Victoria your dealing with fire ants?  If so I will tell my sister to give it a try

That was Hyke and I don't think they have fire ants there.

I weeded the Canadian thistles out of my garden today and called the guy who mows my lawn to get him to come and mow.  I also paid some bills.

[Queen Victoria]

Callaway is right, it isn't I who had the ant problem.  AFAIK they haven't made their way to Holland yet.  I make it a practice to avoid ants in general since when I'm bitten by fire ants they leave a red mark that literally takes 2 or 3 years to disappear on me. 

[Parts]

Callaway is right, it isn't I who had the ant problem.  AFAIK they haven't made their way to Holland yet.  I make it a practice to avoid ants in general since when I'm bitten by fire ants they leave a red mark that literally takes 2 or 3 years to disappear on me.

Opps

I hate ants, fire ants above all others I got 15-20 stings at once when I lived in Florida as a kid they left what looked like pimples on my leg that stayed there weeks

[MissKitty]

Callaway is right, it isn't I who had the ant problem.  AFAIK they haven't made their way to Holland yet.  I make it a practice to avoid ants in general since when I'm bitten by fire ants they leave a red mark that literally takes 2 or 3 years to disappear on me.

Opps

I hate ants, fire ants above all others I got 15-20 stings at once when I lived in Florida as a kid they left what looked like pimples on my leg that stayed there weeks

'Tis me with the ant issue. the mound is massive. 3 ft across and it's killing my grass. Haven't treated it yet as I need hot dry weather and they kept saying it was going to storm so I held off but the rain never came. Now that I'm ready to go, it's 90% chance of a downpour for the entire weekend. Figures.

[Queen Victoria]

I remember the time our dachshund, Flippy, was rolling around in the grass as dogs do.  Unfortunately she rolled into an ant bed.  She was so miserable.  I don't remember what Mom did for it, maybe some ointment or another applied to the bumps.

['andersom']

Callaway is right, it isn't I who had the ant problem.  AFAIK they haven't made their way to Holland yet.  I make it a practice to avoid ants in general since when I'm bitten by fire ants they leave a red mark that literally takes 2 or 3 years to disappear on me.

Opps

I hate ants, fire ants above all others I got 15-20 stings at once when I lived in Florida as a kid they left what looked like pimples on my leg that stayed there weeks

'Tis me with the ant issue. the mound is massive. 3 ft across and it's killing my grass. Haven't treated it yet as I need hot dry weather and they kept saying it was going to storm so I held off but the rain never came. Now that I'm ready to go, it's 90% chance of a downpour for the entire weekend. Figures.

Ants in my front yard are a returning problem for years and years now. The nests in my back garden are no problem, small, and the ants know their place. The ones in the front of my house are different. Two or three very big nests, all below surface, but, too invasive critters. One of the nests is now gone.  Flooding it with a yeast and sugar solution, on a warm day.

['andersom']

My parents had tree ants nesting in their house a couple of years ago. Using insulating open spaces in the walls and such. Was a heck of a job to get rid of them. Where they were nesting, the house had a kind of fir tree orange smell.