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So this morning i opened up my 5 year olds bench sand pit to find millions of ants crawling inside making a nest in the sand! (sand is wet/damp for building sand castles etc..)
So sand is no longer any good so ive dug it all out including the ants from the bench and put it into two buckets then procceded to then fill the buckets up with water to drown the colony, the queen and hopefully any eggs they have laid
How can i make sure this dosent happen again? im hoping ive killed the queen and the eggs so any ants that have survived (dosent look like many have!) will now just go off somewhere else or will they try and rebuild the colony and find a new queen?
procceded to then fill the buckets up with water to drown the colony, the queen and hopefully any eggs they have laid
Why the apparent determination to exterminate them?
I can understand you not wanting to have them living in your child's sand pit but why aren't they allowed to live anywhere else?
The Ants that have survived will die off. They can't go and join another colony because they would get killed as trespassers. They don't hurt anyone and are fascinating creatures. They could have been rehomed.
Why the apparent determination to exterminate them?
We have had an ant problem for the last few years, they were living in the lawn and didnt cause us much bother but last year they came into the house and it was a real pain to get rid of them, we couldnt leave anything out that they might be attracted to and my boy didnt like finding ants on his toys! (who knew ants like Marvel action heros!) so as they decided to make their colony in the sand pit this year i thought it would be a good time to make sure i got rid of most of them in one hit now rather than have to keep dealing with them all summer long
I have no idea if this Twitter video link will work but maybe you could try this...
https://twitter.com/hike_charity/status/1514594342865936384
That video is fab!
Opened this thread expecting to see that video. Hilarious.
Ants in your pants?
https://twitter.com/AwardsDarwin_/status/1512536388209631234?s=20&t=Y4z6RIquoQl1FSNCden2yA
Shame. I loved ants nests as a kid. As part of digging a pond we’d stacked the turf we cleared upside in a big mound with plans to take it away to the dump but it stayed partly because we kids loved climbing about on it making little bases for our action men but also because a colony of ants moved in.
us and the ants coexisted just fine , we could play there and they seemed to get on with their lives - sometimes we’d peel back a layer of turf and reveal all the tunnels and watch them busy away.
Ants gonna ant. Pest control can put lines of anti ant fluid around the perimeter of you house, inside and out, after a couple of years they won’t come back indoors. Good luck getting rid of them outside.
As above, just let them be.