semi FR eeeek. has anyone had experience with carpenter ants?

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randi

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I was just out at the garden, part rock and a little bit of growing space, and found carpenter ants, in numbers :-0

I went to the store immediately and the stuff that kills the ants also harms people, kills pets and poisons edible plants. it's the area where my herbs are. is there any safe way of getting rid them without risking my cats and the herbs?

 
well, I'm glad someone is having fun at Ant Randi's expense! LOL thanks for

the info guys. I found an "organic" exterminator but they won't sell their product, you have to hire them ka ching ka ching $$$$$

I have call into a customer of ours who is a landscaper and very gentle with the earth.

so far, the boric acid and diatomaceous earth seem to be my only options. the problem with those is they are no longer affective when wet. we get a lot of rain here but I just checked and by friday, we'll have 3 or 4 dry days.

we had them in the house a couple of years ago so I panicked to see them so close to being undetected. that was stuff nightmares are made of!

 
Get yerself some stuff called "Terro"; it's a boric acid based bait that. . .

kills grease and sweet eating ants. If carpenter ants like sweet stuff, they'll line up like cows at a trough for Terro. The ants carry it back to the nest and eventually some gets fed to everyone in the nest and they all die.

It does take a while so find an ant trail and lean a board or something over it for some shade and put some terro out on a smoot, flat ground level stone in the ants' way. They will find it and will get other ants to help. Keep putting fresh stuff out everyday. It may take 1-2 weeks or a little more, but the stuff does work.

Plus, the boric acid in Terro is of relatively low toxicity to other living things. This is the least toxic ant bait/killer I know of.

 
thank you. I was finally able to find the Terro and they make one for

carpenter ants and it's not as toxic as all the other products. the carpenter ants prefer to eat wood, as in the structural beams of your house :-0 I totally panicked when I found them so close to the house as we had a HUGE problem with them in the walls a couple of years ago.

 
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