Apocalyptic Ant Invasion, And The Destruction Of A colony

Bongalongherb

The folk's were on to me about this ant problem they had and didn't know what to do. So, I investigated it in their kitchen and saw no ants before 10pm at night, so I hung around for about an hour later and opened the kitchen door and came face to face with a colony of worker ants, black flying ants, and big-ass black flying ants and an enormous big black one with wings plodding around, to my utter horror.

It was like an invasion for sure. I stood there at the kitchen door and looked at them and couldn't believe it, they covered every part of the tiling in the kitchen, it was war. Video recording below.

I never saw anything like this before, not this bad. So I plodded off to see what I could purchase to exterminate these lovely friendly creatures, and I like ants actually, I have no problem with them and they never bother me unless they take over the house, so it was them or my family, so one had to go. And that was the ants. It was a 4 day battle long and hard and now they are all gone for good.

If anyone out there has this ant problem, just get AntStop bait trap, you get two modules in a pack and then put them on the trail that the ants usually take from underneath your washing machine or drier. best thing to do actually is pull out the washing machine or other, and unclip the 4 plastic latches on the bait trap and stick them behind the machine or other and forget about them and the ant problem will be sorted in 3 to 6 days.

This was a nightmare, but they are all dead now and so is the nest. In a way, I feel sorry for the ants, but there was no choice as it was an invasion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LaoIA0KG1Y

The Peanut

How long did I sleep for?

Video needs scenes where ants devour parents...

Bongalongherb

TheTorment wrote: »

Video needs scenes where ants devour parents...

Well it probably would have happened if nothing was done, it was insane, never saw so many ants in a house like this one

kylith

The Antstop ones are good alright. I had a colony right outside my front door and they had to go when I found them all up the door jambs. I put down an Antstop and no more problem. Last I saw, workers were fleeing with the grubs. I hope they found somewhere safe so we can both live in peace.

Ronin247

No ants in a clean kitchen.:D
Murderer.

The_Valeyard

Foolish OP,

They are not gone. Just regrouping for the counter attack, I'd sleep with one eye open....

Bongalongherb

kylith wrote: »

The Antstop ones are good alright. I had a colony right outside my front door and they had to go when I found them all up the door jambs. I put down an Antstop and no more problem. Last I saw, workers were fleeing with the grubs. I hope they found somewhere safe so we can both live in peace.

I think there was two nests because I caught a big enormous one running to get out the back door and it was as fat as hell. They are damn tough I have to say, they don't care, they will go through anything to get food to bring back to the queen no matter what.

But when your kitchen is full of them you do panic, I thought they were going to take over the house. There was a huge influx of flying ants here in Ireland and Britain over this humid summer and they are everywhere.

Those big-ass black ones with wings are crazy looking though.

anncoates

Antocide.

Bongalongherb

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Foolish OP,

They are not gone. Just regrouping for the counter attack, I'd sleep with one eye open....

I don't sleep there so I'm ok. Pity the old folks though.

Bongalongherb

Ronin247 wrote: »

No ants in a clean kitchen.:D
Murderer.

That's a false statement, no matter how clean a house is, in spring after warm long-term humid weather they can and will enter your abode regardless of whether it's spotless clean or not, ants will and can burrow through wood/mortar and cement, they will get in to a moist place regardless.

I did warn the parents to clean up and plaster the kitchen and also seal and paint it but it looks like I'll have to do it all for them. They let it go a bit so time for a major clean-up. Their oap's so after that shock, you would have to be there to see it, it was a crazy infestation for sure. Time for a sqirt of sealer and paint big-time.

kylith

Bongalongherb wrote: »

I think there was two nests because I caught a big enormous one running to get out the back door and it was as fat as hell. They are damn tough I have to say, they don't care, they will go through anything to get food to bring back to the queen no matter what.

But when your kitchen is full of them you do panic, I thought they were going to take over the house. There was a huge influx of flying ants here in Ireland and Britain over this humid summer and they are everywhere.

Those big-ass black ones with wings are crazy looking though.

There were more flying ones around than usual this year alright. I can't remember seeing so many since the 80s.

At least you didn't go the route of a guy I know - he found them in his kitchen and thought that deodorant and a lighter was the way to go. Needless to say, it did not end well.

Pumpkinseeds

A pet friendly alternative is to mix baking soda and icing sugar, leave little mounds of it dotted around on the ground near where they are most active. The ants can't distinguish between the icing sugar and baking soda, so when they eat it they explode.

Bongalongherb

kylith wrote: »

There were more flying ones around than usual this year alright. I can't remember seeing so many since the 80s.

At least you didn't go the route of a guy I know - he found them in his kitchen and thought that deodorant and a lighter was the way to go. Needless to say, it did not end well.

Well the trusty Google as always done the job for me yet again. I reviewed the best stuff and after reading many many reviews, that antstop was my choice and I have to say, I'm impressed, it took 4 days and cleaning up thousands of little ant bodies it sure as hell does what it says on the tin.

The little guys were all over my legs as I was wearing shorts when I went into the kitchen when it was bad, but they didn't bite or bother me, I'd rather a more humane way of removing them but there isn't, so had to deal with it asap as it was out of control.

Bongalongherb

Pumpkinseeds wrote: »

A pet friendly alternative is to mix baking soda and icing sugar, leave little mounds of it dotted around on the ground near where they are most active. The ants can't distinguish between the icing sugar and baking soda, so when they eat it they explode.

In all fairness lol, exploding ants is not a good thing. You have to bait the worker ants to eat the poison and bring it too the queen and they regurgitate it to the queen and then she dies and the rest die as well from the bait poison. It is the only, and fastest way to eliminate the nest/nests. I had to read a lot about these little fellers first to understand how it works.


I will admit though, when I had the camcorder recording them on the base of the ground, I could see some of the ants standing up on their two back legs looking around at the chaos of what was going on. They are intelligent little guys for sure and what I also saw after an hours observation when some of them ate the poison was a few ants running over to a sick one that fell over, and this ant ran over and picked it up in it's mouth and carried it off and dropped it nudging it to get up. When you look at what they do closely with a zoomed camera they are quite amazing creatures all the same.

Pumpkinseeds

Bongalongherb wrote: »

In all fairness lol, exploding ants is not a good thing. You have to bait the worker ants to eat the poison and bring it too the queen and they regurgitate it to the queen and then she dies and the rest die as well from the bait poison. It is the only, and fastest way to eliminate the nest/nests. I had to read a lot about these little fellers first to understand how it works.

I was sick to death of the little bastards in by back yard this year. Every time I sat in the garden they were biting me. So it was time for them to explode before I did. We have 4 cats and I didn't want to use anything toxic.

The_Valeyard

Bongalongherb wrote: »

I don't sleep there so I'm ok. Pity the old folks though.

That's what you think! But a crack squad of commandos followed you home

Bongalongherb

The_Valeyard wrote: »

That's what you think! But a crack squad of commandos followed you home

I was the crack-squad commando dealing with this invasion, everyone else ran away like little girls screaming. I will have to live with the destruction and complete wipe-out of a colony for the rest of my life. I feel sorry for the intelligent fellers, but how the heck would they know what I fed them in the first place ? I could live in denial.


I could have told the folk's to move out and let them take over and build their own structural abode, but the folk's weren't having any of it so there ye go.

alchemist33

anncoates wrote: »

Antocide.

Poor Anto

RobbingBandit

I for one welcome our new insect overlords.

Bongalongherb

I will swear by the Ant bible that this concoction works to 100% efficiency. If you have a more humane way of decontamination then all good and well, but this nuclear ant-bomb forwarded to the mother-ship will end it all for these cute/intelligent/amazing creatures. It's a shame they entered the 3rd dimension, they don't seem to understand 'UP' or giants.

A plug...But a plug that saved my families home from annihilation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwrn1qNT0qA

FullblownRose

Seeing as they had to be obliterated anyway, you could've done a Walter Tschinkel on them if you knew where the nest was.


http://discovermagazine.com/2003/nov/the-secret-life-of-ants

Hotfail.com

Oh Bongalongherb, you are definitely my favourite weirdo Boardsie

evo2000

Bongalongherb wrote: »

The folk's were on to me about this ant problem they had and didn't know what to do. So, I investigated it in their kitchen and saw no ants before 10pm at night, so I hung around for about an hour later and opened the kitchen door and came face to face with a colony of worker ants, black flying ants, and big-ass black flying ants and an enormous big black one with wings plodding around, to my utter horror.

It was like an invasion for sure. I stood there at the kitchen door and looked at them and couldn't believe it, they covered every part of the tiling in the kitchen, it was war. Video recording below.

I never saw anything like this before, not this bad. So I plodded off to see what I could purchase to exterminate these lovely friendly creatures, and I like ants actually, I have no problem with them and they never bother me unless they take over the house, so it was them or my family, so one had to go. And that was the ants. It was a 4 day battle long and hard and now they are all gone for good.

If anyone out there has this ant problem, just get AntStop bait trap, you get two modules in a pack and then put them on the trail that the ants usually take from underneath your washing machine or drier. best thing to do actually is pull out the washing machine or other, and unclip the 4 plastic latches on the bait trap and stick them behind the machine or other and forget about them and the ant problem will be sorted in 3 to 6 days.

This was a nightmare, but they are all dead now and so is the nest. In a way, I feel sorry for the ants, but there was no choice as it was an invasion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1LaoIA0KG1Y

We just recently ended a 2 week long war with mice, it was brutal there were many casualties! agile formidable foes them mice! we tried to capture and release but they could not be reasoned with! many a snap trap was brought to bare and victory was claimed!!!

Feel sorry for the poor ****ers myself the way i looked at it was they were only trying to survive too but..unfortunately these things have to be done!

Bongalongherb

I have to admit, after studying these ant creatures for a week, I now understand the beauty and intelligence of these ants. I will say this... if I see ants out in the wild/garden, I will go close and look closer and enjoy the buzz from these amazing creatures.

I will say this though, it was a battle big-time to remove them, but the nest is always safely tarted into a moist part of wood and mortar and concrete..Yes, these little fellers can burrow through it all no problem.

Call me a sentimental human being, but after studying these fellers on ground with curiosity for basically a week constantly, I have to say, it opened my mind, and opened it vastly regarding these amazing creatures.

I was infested myself with them on my legs and arms as I let them crawl over me and not one of them bit me. They are harmless to folks , but they can be a destruction to your abode. But they are harmless otherwise.

Right now at this time, I have wiped out a very large colony of these ants and I feel like sh!t for doing so. I sat back earlier on the chair with a beer, after the invasion, and pondered over it all. And I will say I feel like sh!t from exterminating them. You get that feeling of utter destruction.

Anyway, I will look at ants differently from now on, it was a major experience watching them in motion, especially when they stood up on their back legs checking the surroundings.