Today, despite putting all the food in the fridge, taking all the rubbish outside, cleaning the house top to bottom and setting up bait, we're still dealing with a bloody huge ant problem. I've now got a rash all over from being bitten while I sleep. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, three days after finally having a bed to sleep on, I woke up with multiple bedbug bites. I can't use my blankets, wear any of my clothes and it's back to sleeping on the floor for me. FML
Today, I had to prepare for my big meeting tomorrow morning. Before going to bed, I washed my face. Unfortunately, the towel I wiped myself with turned out to house our red ant infestation. My face looks like a ripe tomato. FML
Today, after three visits from exterminators and another from a steam cleaner, I still have bedbugs. FML
Today, I finally put away two weeks worth of clean laundry, only to get to the bottom of the pile and find mice droppings. I now have to wash my whole wardrobe, bed linen, and towels with disinfectant (On top of sanitising my furniture and floors). FML
Today, after losing a battle with ants in my apartment, I just pulled one off that was biting me in the vagina. FML
Today, I woke up at 2 a.m. and ate some chips that were on my nightstand, totally unaware that they were covered in ants. Now I have two swollen lips and my kid’s birthday party is tomorrow. FML
Today, while trying to take my Christmas tree down, I learned that at some point during the last few weeks, it became home to a colony of green ants. I'm now covered in bites and terrified to go anywhere near it. FML
Today, I came home after a long day at work, and decided to tidy up a bit before finally settling down to relax. I went to take the garbage out, when the bag split and out fell the trash along with hundreds of tiny red ants. FML
Today, I was sleeping in my bed when I felt an itch on my arm. Then another. Then another. I finally looked to see what was going on, only to find a bunch of ants crawling in my bed. They were somehow getting in through the closed window. Guess I’m done sleeping tonight. FML
Today, I found ants all over my chocolate, but I'm so addicted that I just wiped them off and ate it anyway. FML
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DeeVa 7
Try making bait out of table sugar and plain borax (found in the laundry detergent aisle). Mix it about 50/50 with just enough water to make a gooey paste and set it in very shallow lids wherever you see ants. If they don’t take the bait, add more sugar. If they keep coming, add a little more borax. I tried this solution two years ago and haven’t seen an ant ever since. Good luck!
RichardPencil 32
Bedbugs?
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DeeVa 7
Try making bait out of table sugar and plain borax (found in the laundry detergent aisle). Mix it about 50/50 with just enough water to make a gooey paste and set it in very shallow lids wherever you see ants. If they don’t take the bait, add more sugar. If they keep coming, add a little more borax. I tried this solution two years ago and haven’t seen an ant ever since. Good luck!
RichardPencil 32
Bedbugs?
Demondealer09 5
try peppermint oil
chosha_fml 27
Use a surface spray around the edge of the outside of your house, around each door and window frame. You might need to insect bomb every room to get the ones inside. Check absolutely everywhere in the house because it sounds like either you’ve missed something (any bits of food fallen behind the bed?) or there’s somewhere unexpected they’re getting in.
JosephFDawson 7
Sprinkle baking soda on your carpet and in your garbage cans. Little ******* hate it. Had an ant problem a few years ago and it worked for me.
Teri Green 9
every summer the ants cause a new hole in the concrete foundation of my house now and I find that bleaching the house from top to bottom (not just an expression, being literal) then putting a little bit of fresh ground cinnamon near the inside entrance of their holes and around their hills helps prevent them coming in for the summer
zuckerburg 21
Sorry buddy, but those sound like lice, not ants
Wisernow 10
Ants don't like mint. Use mint oil, can put on cotton balls and line kitchen floor. I also know someone who used sticks of gum. It worked.
mindy12182 17
if you're getting multiple bites every night you might want to check your mattress thoroughly they may have set up a colony in or near it.
0neiros 14
Ground Cinnamon also repels them and smells good as well. Get some ant bait stations, they'll eat it, take it back to the colony and it'll poison the queen. No queen, no ants