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silk_knickers

Ants

Aug 14, 2009 21:53

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tarchannon August 15 2009, 02:09:58 UTC

1) Clean up. :) No food, no ants. If you are concerned about certain food items, enclose them in zip top plastic bags (or open the box and transfer to said sip top bags. Be sure to wipe up and loose sugar, sweet stuff, and rinse out the garbage pail and lysol/bleach/disinfect it.
2) Let the landlord know *after* you've cleaned up. Just tell him that you had a few ants and though that he should know to keep an eye on it. If you keep seeing them, you'll let him know.
3) Wait to see if the ants go away. :P

silk_knickers August 15 2009, 03:02:02 UTC

Man, Zero Mostel wasn't kidding when he said that everybody ought to have a maid. Alternatively, I could get my ass off the couch.

tarchannon August 15 2009, 03:33:59 UTC

*whimpers* I want a maid... *tears*

digitalemur August 15 2009, 03:52:01 UTC

Zero Mostel is one gangsta mensch, yo.

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silk_knickers August 15 2009, 03:00:06 UTC

Astoundingly, cinnamon is a spice which I have. I will try that.

a_dawn August 15 2009, 03:24:34 UTC

It could also be water. I had ants, wee, tiny, impossible to kill with over the counter stuff. I noticed them as soon as I moved in, so it wasn't a cleanliness issue.

In the end they had to spray/set out poison or something in the whole building to get rid of them.

silk_knickers August 15 2009, 11:19:32 UTC

That's not encouraging! So far it seems to be in a limited area, so hopefully I'll be able to get them before I'm completely overrun.

ascetic_hedony August 15 2009, 04:02:23 UTC

Try and find out where they're getting in. Either fix the gap, or use some sort of repellant.
Bag or box anything they might have been interested in, and try to keep spills contained for the next few weeks - hopefully they'll stop coming by.

silk_knickers August 15 2009, 11:18:24 UTC

Your icon is hilariously appropriate.

kudra2324 August 15 2009, 04:16:46 UTC

the ant traps that RAID makes are pretty awesome, although i also recommend cleaning the kitchen.

silk_knickers August 15 2009, 11:20:34 UTC

I was really hoping I could just shout "expelliarmus" and have them disappear, or something. But I guess I'll clean today, if I must. *sigh* Life is so hard.

a_dawn August 15 2009, 15:54:14 UTC

Heh, you were going to disarm the ants?

silk_knickers August 15 2009, 17:47:12 UTC

...or whatever. I went to a public high school, not Hogwarts. :)

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