HomelessDiver
Contributor
Ok, I've tried a few things found on the internet - this about to drive me up a wall.
Here on Boracay, we have these tiny little crazy ants that people keep calling 'sugar ants'. They swarm within minutes of anything edible being found, an empty bottle of Sprite brings about a hundred in 90 seconds flat.
These jokers live in the walls, in the furniture, in the grout under floor-tiles. They're coming out of a tiny pinhole in an otherwise solid concrete wall. In my last house on the hill, they burrowed so much in a vacant room, the floor tiles actually came up in the corner.
And they're not like normal ants, these guys just tend to roam all over the place... only forming lines when someone found some goodies. Really small and light brown, almost seem to have a translucent abdomen but they're too small for me to checkout in detail. I thought they were termites for the longest until everyone told me different.
I've tried using Baygon, the longterm, persistent agent stuff that will kill a large roach 3 or 4 weeks after the area was sprayed. These guys leave and come back later the same day, and that stuffs just too poisonous for me to be breathing every few days.
I tried cleaning the area in pure white vinegar, which is normally a natural ant repellent, no luck. In fact they seem to be more active now, almost like I opened the express lane at a toll booth.
Cleaned in bleach, soaked the area in alcohol/glycerin, glass cleaner - nothing keeps these guys away. I cant even tell what they're going after this morning: from a pinhole in the ceiling down to a crack inside a shelf. I presume they're burrowing a new area to live. I tried tossing talc powder to no effect. Theres even a 'chalk' posion just for ants that only causes them to find that tiny opening in the line, and keep on marching.
Here on Boracay, we have these tiny little crazy ants that people keep calling 'sugar ants'. They swarm within minutes of anything edible being found, an empty bottle of Sprite brings about a hundred in 90 seconds flat.
These jokers live in the walls, in the furniture, in the grout under floor-tiles. They're coming out of a tiny pinhole in an otherwise solid concrete wall. In my last house on the hill, they burrowed so much in a vacant room, the floor tiles actually came up in the corner.
And they're not like normal ants, these guys just tend to roam all over the place... only forming lines when someone found some goodies. Really small and light brown, almost seem to have a translucent abdomen but they're too small for me to checkout in detail. I thought they were termites for the longest until everyone told me different.
I've tried using Baygon, the longterm, persistent agent stuff that will kill a large roach 3 or 4 weeks after the area was sprayed. These guys leave and come back later the same day, and that stuffs just too poisonous for me to be breathing every few days.
I tried cleaning the area in pure white vinegar, which is normally a natural ant repellent, no luck. In fact they seem to be more active now, almost like I opened the express lane at a toll booth.
Cleaned in bleach, soaked the area in alcohol/glycerin, glass cleaner - nothing keeps these guys away. I cant even tell what they're going after this morning: from a pinhole in the ceiling down to a crack inside a shelf. I presume they're burrowing a new area to live. I tried tossing talc powder to no effect. Theres even a 'chalk' posion just for ants that only causes them to find that tiny opening in the line, and keep on marching.
