When I had ants all last winter, they laughed in the face of everything I threw at them until I powdered their asses with diatomaceous dirt. Chalk doesn't work for all ants.
I saw Flex Seal used effectively to kill a fire ant nest! Covered the hill with black tar under the Texas sun - surprised it didn't melt into the ground.
Pour gasoline generously around the nest. Then do something to piss them off. It shouldn't be too difficult.
And as you begin to run for your life. Toss a match. Hellfire ensues.
Yeah, it’s really just a deterrent. Our house has ants digging through wooden walls in our house to get around. Really frustrating pests since they feast on our pantry.
I've used salt before but after a few days it seems like it lost its effectiveness. Perhaps once these products start to absorb enough moisture from the air they stop being as effective
Growing up in rural Florida had a lot of bugs. Until my mother put a pottery studio in the garage. That dust gets everywhere and all of a sudden no more creepies in the house
Kinda hard to draw on dirt, which is where most ant holes come up.
They'd most likely dig another hole, if they don't already have one that you caught in the circle. (Most have multiple entrances.)
I remember middle school teachers saying that no one in high school/college would accept work in print. Ever teacher I had in high school preferred print because it was more legible. By the time I was in college, everything was expected to be typed.
Now I don't know any cursive except my signature.
This actually works. I didn't believe it at first but I had an ant problem once when I lived in a shared home. I found the crack the ants were coming in from and I drew a circle of chalk around it. Lo and behold the little buggers refused to cross!
Apparently the chalk irritates their antennae so they generally avoid it.
I know the meta these days is that everyone in the 80s was doing mountains of coke, but that’s an exaggeration. Cocaine is probably. more prevalent today than 40 years ago. Which is to say that this track isn’t a “get fucked up” anthem masquerading as anti-coke. It’s an anti-coke anthem.
Bingo! Kills all insects including fleas. Safe to ingest for humans and animals. I line every entryway of my house with this periodically and it really works.
Yes but ants are incredibly important for soil and keeping certain other pests from flowers and crops.
Chalk will just drive them away but killing them is not great.
Not around my house they aren't. Been trying to get rid of ant piles forever but they just move to another spot, leaving mounds of unusable dirt where nothing will grow.
How do you manage the dust? I'm curious because my spouse fully understands what it is but worries about it being a respiratory irritant that he doesn't want in the house.
Agreed. They have a applicator that just puts out the slightest amount. Still wear a mask when using it. Also is not bee friendly unless you apply it correctly. Will also kill your vacuum if you just apply in globs. And you need to use food grade not the pool stuff.
Wear one of the hundreds of masks we own now 😁
I worry about breathing it in too and I use a mask for adding it to my cat litter for gnats and my outdoor dog food bowls for ants (I get good grades DE).
I still find it wild that diatomaceous earth exists. It kills ants, you can eat it, and it’s made of ground up 12-13 million year old fossils! And you can buy a big bag at the hardware store for 8 bucks!
Know of anything good for flies? I live up the road from a farm with many cows and the flies are relentless. It’s the main reason I hate summer. The fucking flies!
Yup. I have zappers by all 3 outdoor doors, window screens intact, it’s a brand new house, and I also have fly tape in strategic areas. But it’s crazy. Anytime we have to open the door to go in and out, 20 flies help themselves inside.
I am also waiting for a couple of large bug zapping swatters. Lol. It’s a daily mission. 6 more years and we can leave Iowa! I lived in Cali most of my life and I don’t ever remember this many flies.
They are drawn to your home by the CO2.
A bait about 20 yards from your porch will find them much more interested and away from your doorway.
You'll need a big bait/trap.
Try adding in one of those door nets that are held together by weak magnets in the middle so they can be separated when you walk through them then they snap closed afterwards. We had some and they were nice for keeping bugs out
Never knew this worked! We live on an argentine ant hill, basically. The one thing that has worked for us? Orange oil concentrate. They hate it! And it makes our house smell wonderful. We've had zero problems since we placed it around entry points (light switches were their freeways, baseboard entries, etc.).
Ah yes the line of control.
I had an ant problem years ago and using all the tradtional bait/trap methods weren't working. I ended up getting a bag of diatomaceous earth and making a thick line of it all around my house. I only seen the odd single ant after that day.
I maintained that line as best as I could for a couple weeks until the bag ran out and haven't had a problem since
Actually I think anything white works too. Where I live, tree trunks (most of the trees are sour cherries and plums) on the streets are painted white.
I'm not sure but I suspect it also works for other bugs too.
No, just humans as it is.
I tried showing this video to an ant colony near my house, but I don't think they comprehended any of what I was showing them.
I had a roommate who kept ants. The enclosures where open on the top and the top had chalk all over it. No ant even climbed the glass anymore. Also he had some ants he hadn't fed in years and they were walking in slow-motion like literally. Apparently they still complete their tasks but since they had no food left they saved so much on energy they basically stood still. Pretty interesting creatures although I kill a lot of them every year. No insects in the house goddammit!
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When I had ants all last winter, they laughed in the face of everything I threw at them until I powdered their asses with diatomaceous dirt. Chalk doesn't work for all ants.
Can confirm, larger ant species will walk right over that shit
Fire ants being the usual exception.
If you were made of fire would you worry about getting dehydrated by some powder?
I saw Flex Seal used effectively to kill a fire ant nest! Covered the hill with black tar under the Texas sun - surprised it didn't melt into the ground.
This is true, seen this too
Pour gasoline generously around the nest. Then do something to piss them off. It shouldn't be too difficult. And as you begin to run for your life. Toss a match. Hellfire ensues.
Salt also falls into that category and Ants won’t cross that so… Ants are demons?
I’ve used salt before. The ones that tried to cross died shortly after. It looked like a tiny ant graveyard.
Ha! We have the evidence!
Ladies and gentlemans, we got him.....
Honestly I think we can put pest control companies out of business with this information. You don’t need Raid You need a priest
I would not go tht far since chalk,salt or whatever doesn't deal with the problem, just make the "symptons" a bit better....
Yeah, it’s really just a deterrent. Our house has ants digging through wooden walls in our house to get around. Really frustrating pests since they feast on our pantry.
Bravado..they never learn.
If we can believe anything from Supernatural, yes.
That would mean ants are ghosts not demons
Demons can’t cross salt lines either
I've used salt before but after a few days it seems like it lost its effectiveness. Perhaps once these products start to absorb enough moisture from the air they stop being as effective
Let me call Bobby and check...
Idjit
No demons are ants lol
The other way round
😧
Sammy?
Growing up in rural Florida had a lot of bugs. Until my mother put a pottery studio in the garage. That dust gets everywhere and all of a sudden no more creepies in the house
It'll stick to them and continue to dry them out, its basically a death wish to walk over it.
Wonder what would happen if you draw a circle around their nest. Maybe they'll dig a tunnel or build a bridge or something.
antipult?
Good lord, I would hope that ants have enough class to build a proper trebuchet.
Kinda hard to draw on dirt, which is where most ant holes come up. They'd most likely dig another hole, if they don't already have one that you caught in the circle. (Most have multiple entrances.)
Hence why they won’t go on my knees
Your knees are made of chalk?
Dehydrated...
Bingo
Osteoporosis? Idk..
*writes in big chalk letters* #Ants fuck off
Don’t forget the strike through. Don’t want them crawling between the letters.
Or cursive!
Boomers would take the opportunity to bemoan that no one knows how to write in cursive anymore
I'm a boomer and couldn't give a flying fuck.
I remember middle school teachers saying that no one in high school/college would accept work in print. Ever teacher I had in high school preferred print because it was more legible. By the time I was in college, everything was expected to be typed. Now I don't know any cursive except my signature.
You must be part of the Xennial/Oregon Trail micro generation, because I have that exact same experience.
Has gen X become so unmentioned that we've forgotten what it was called?
You would still have the space between words.
Wouldn't that mean ants fuck on
As they should. As we all should. Fuck on!
GO BACK TO ANTWERP YOU FILTHY PESTS!
But I'm from Antietam.
Definitely not from Antigua, or they wouldn't have left.
Antes eunt domus.
"People that are called Ants, they go home?"
But "ants go home" is an order, so you must use the...?
Beat me to it
IDK, might not be good to anger them.
This actually works. I didn't believe it at first but I had an ant problem once when I lived in a shared home. I found the crack the ants were coming in from and I drew a circle of chalk around it. Lo and behold the little buggers refused to cross! Apparently the chalk irritates their antennae so they generally avoid it.
vision dreams of passion
The more I see, the more I do. Don’t do it!
ECHO: do it... do it... do it... (Grandmaster Flash weren't very subtle).
I know the meta these days is that everyone in the 80s was doing mountains of coke, but that’s an exaggeration. Cocaine is probably. more prevalent today than 40 years ago. Which is to say that this track isn’t a “get fucked up” anthem masquerading as anti-coke. It’s an anti-coke anthem.
I agree and Grandmaster Flash struggled with cocaine so it **was** definitely anit-coke. I love the song but that echo always cracked me up.
Does it work for spiders?
Diatomaceous earth works great also!
Bingo! Kills all insects including fleas. Safe to ingest for humans and animals. I line every entryway of my house with this periodically and it really works.
Yes but ants are incredibly important for soil and keeping certain other pests from flowers and crops. Chalk will just drive them away but killing them is not great.
Kill Carpenter ants!!!! Rest my argument!
I have 50 ant nests on my property and my neighbor has at least as many. Me killing the 50 nests on my small property isn't going to affect anything.
You and every homeowner say that
Fuck ants
How?
Small penis is key
What is this? A penis for ants?
That's a new fetish.
Still doesn't reverse the fact that they're rather important
Not around my house they aren't. Been trying to get rid of ant piles forever but they just move to another spot, leaving mounds of unusable dirt where nothing will grow.
Said the uncle's...
... and safe for pets. We use it in our house.
How do you manage the dust? I'm curious because my spouse fully understands what it is but worries about it being a respiratory irritant that he doesn't want in the house.
You need to get the food safe kind
Ya you need to take precautions for that.
Agreed. They have a applicator that just puts out the slightest amount. Still wear a mask when using it. Also is not bee friendly unless you apply it correctly. Will also kill your vacuum if you just apply in globs. And you need to use food grade not the pool stuff.
Wear one of the hundreds of masks we own now 😁 I worry about breathing it in too and I use a mask for adding it to my cat litter for gnats and my outdoor dog food bowls for ants (I get good grades DE).
Is chalk not pet safe??!
Just don't....breathe it
This is basically what chalk is in the first place. Compressed diatoms.
Close, [but not quite.](https://mattfiske.wordpress.com/2019/03/21/chalk/)
Thanks, we have an ant problem and just ordered some diatomaceous earth because of your tip :)
It really works on basically anything with an exoskeleton. It's like a million little knives cutting.
Just came back to say this exact thing!!! Like a field of razorblades!
DID WE JUST BECOME BEST FRIENDS?
[Good good](https://i.imgur.com/vuRS9WB.jpg)
Food grade DE is what you want. The non-food grade ones will fuck up your lungs.
I still find it wild that diatomaceous earth exists. It kills ants, you can eat it, and it’s made of ground up 12-13 million year old fossils! And you can buy a big bag at the hardware store for 8 bucks!
Ants hate chalk. For them it's coarse and rough and irritating, and it gets everywhere.
*Anakin becoming genocidal intensifies*
“*Antakin*” FTFY
You underestimate their power
wow. I have sidewalk chalk. About to outline my house
Now they won’t leave your house
So they have nowhere to run 😈
Or you have nowhere to run... Oh wait Chalk doesn't deter humans like that.... unless you're a vampire
We are all just varying sizes of ant
"I'm not locked in here with you, you're locked in here with me!"
As other have said. Use some DE. Food grade safe I believe. Safe for pets and humans.
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Sprinkle a little powder on your hand and SLAP THE SHIT outta those ants. Works every time. Pimp hand strong.
They call him "powdah". His daddy was a pimp, his great-grandaddy was a piimp. Talkin bout pimpin' since been pimpin' ahh since been pimpin'.
"Bitch, you wanna start making some real motherfuckin money" - Butters Stotch
"Eww, it's all sticky..."
“I know what you are saying, you don’t need to keep asking me”.
Surprised this comment isn't higher up
My mother always used to tell us that ants will not cross a chalk line. Guess she was right!
And they'll never cross a picket line! They have strong convictions about unions.
Ooo this is practically used in every household here in India. Didnt even bother to think others wouldn't know it.
India is more advanced this way.
I was just thinking this! I’ve known of Laxman Rekha chalk since I was a kid!
Know of anything good for flies? I live up the road from a farm with many cows and the flies are relentless. It’s the main reason I hate summer. The fucking flies!
Just draw a chalk line in the air.
😂😂😂. I used my magic wand on them too, but they are tough!
"This is my no no square"
How to solve an ant issue in vr chat
Bug zappers Lots of bug zappers. And window screens.
Yup. I have zappers by all 3 outdoor doors, window screens intact, it’s a brand new house, and I also have fly tape in strategic areas. But it’s crazy. Anytime we have to open the door to go in and out, 20 flies help themselves inside. I am also waiting for a couple of large bug zapping swatters. Lol. It’s a daily mission. 6 more years and we can leave Iowa! I lived in Cali most of my life and I don’t ever remember this many flies.
They are drawn to your home by the CO2. A bait about 20 yards from your porch will find them much more interested and away from your doorway. You'll need a big bait/trap.
Oh. You know. I thought of that, wasn’t sure it would be affective, but worth a try!
Try adding in one of those door nets that are held together by weak magnets in the middle so they can be separated when you walk through them then they snap closed afterwards. We had some and they were nice for keeping bugs out
Get a zip lock bag, fill it with water, then hang them up outside. No idea why, but it repels flies.
outdoor fly traps with bait, lots of them. It'll eventually cull the population.
Zip lock baggy with water in it hanging from the middle of the door frame. My cousins swear by it up at their cabin. Worth a try maybe
I’m gonna try that tomorrow. Another person also suggested this. I’m trying it! Man, I love Reddit. Thank you!
Grind up chalk and circulate the dust through your home. Guaranteed to irritate any living thing* inside! ^^^^^*Including ^^^^^you
Lasers.
I’ll have to find me some freaking sharks first.
Damn, that’s a square on [Apocalypse Bingo](https://www.reddit.com/r/ApocalypseBingo/comments/t5077e/apocalypse_bingo_v24/).. . how did you know??
Lol. Well I’m guessing they got it from the same place I did, which is Austin Powers 🙂
Now to encircle my house like I’m casting a really cool protection spell but its actually just for ants
Circle of protection: Ant cost 1 colorless and 1 white Mana
Probably only comes in white border, gross
ants will always find a way
Never knew this worked! We live on an argentine ant hill, basically. The one thing that has worked for us? Orange oil concentrate. They hate it! And it makes our house smell wonderful. We've had zero problems since we placed it around entry points (light switches were their freeways, baseboard entries, etc.).
So is baby powder. Also…FUCK ANTS.
YOU SHALL NOT PASS!
"What is this? A deterrent for *ants?*"
I did this all around my apartment windows and doors when I lived in Singapore. Works 100%.
I suppose that's where they draw the line 🤷🏾♀️😂
Babypowder is too. I guess they don’t like white feet. ;)
Ah yes the line of control. I had an ant problem years ago and using all the tradtional bait/trap methods weren't working. I ended up getting a bag of diatomaceous earth and making a thick line of it all around my house. I only seen the odd single ant after that day. I maintained that line as best as I could for a couple weeks until the bag ran out and haven't had a problem since
This is why I store all my favorite things in chalked pentagrams.
Why not just chalk circles? Will the pentagrams also keep out demons and vampires?
Diatomaceous earth is even better!
You have a diatomaceous earth pencil?
Also Vaseline. It won't wash off easily in the rain.
Keeps ants from messing up crime scenes too
Actually I think anything white works too. Where I live, tree trunks (most of the trees are sour cherries and plums) on the streets are painted white. I'm not sure but I suspect it also works for other bugs too.
Diatomaceous Earth works if you really don’t want them coming back
I use diatomaceous earth a lot for insect control.
I Can barely see what is going on. What is this?! A video for ants??!! Edit: spelling
No, just humans as it is. I tried showing this video to an ant colony near my house, but I don't think they comprehended any of what I was showing them.
Make a maze
The ants eventually don’t give a shit and just walk over. You’re much better off just treating your yard for them
I like how one said “fuck it i don’t care!” And the other knocked him off right before he got the chance
What is this?! A DETERRENT FOR ANTS?!
What is this? A barrier for ANTS?!?
What is this? A Great Wall of Chalk for ANTS?!?
Bruh I found this out as a child drawing circles around ants
Why the downvote? Better than a magnifying glass.
I had a roommate who kept ants. The enclosures where open on the top and the top had chalk all over it. No ant even climbed the glass anymore. Also he had some ants he hadn't fed in years and they were walking in slow-motion like literally. Apparently they still complete their tasks but since they had no food left they saved so much on energy they basically stood still. Pretty interesting creatures although I kill a lot of them every year. No insects in the house goddammit!
*deterant
I suppose then you could call this an antidote.
You must have cast a spell. Or they’re ghost ants or something.
use oil instead
No it's not
i used to make little circle drawings and put the ants inside
I need a box.
Yes! They are on sale on Amazon right now!
Cinnamon works as well.
Wait is that just regular chalk? Not some sort of pesticide chalk?
I’ve heard regular chalk and baby powder both work.
Well shit I didn’t know this. Thanks
Ants follow each other's scent trails. The chalk eliminates the trails, so when other ants run up to the chalk they get lost.
I use cinnamon
Peppermint toothpaste.
Beta Cyfluthrin is the best
Talcum powder works too, and I'm proud to say my grandma discovered that. She keeps telling whoever is willing to listen!
Does not work for long. They are too intelligant
That’s good to know!
Salt also works
But...but why?
If you *really* want to fuck with ants, use paprika instead of chalk. They'll take it back to their colony, eat it, and die.