Ants

rgatijnet1 wrote:
Put a mixture of half sugar and half boric acid in a shallow plate. Mix just enough water to make a thick solution. Boric acid is available at any drug store and is used to wash out your eyes. The ants are attracted to it, will eat it, take some back to their nest, and quickly die.

I soak about 12 cotton balls with the same recipe and scatter them around basement and coach. Reknew once a week.

Corn meal. The ants pick it up as food, take it back to the nest, eat it and it expands internally killing them. Since they feed the queen, eventually the population dies off. to prevent, put chalk or baby powder around your wheels and jacks, power cord etc. Ants will not cross a chalk or talc line.

Buy a bag of diatomaceous earth. It's very inexpensive. Whenever you park scatter handfuls of it around your jacks, your tires, and any other access to the RV, such as hoses and electrical lines. You can get it at any big box store, like Lowes or Home Depot. You can also get it at swimming pool supply stores. It is nontoxic to humans and pets, but extremely toxic to anything with an exoskeleton, such as ants. Even crazy ants. If your pet is a tarantula, all bets are off.

Once ants get inside the RV the only reliable remedy I've found is Terro ant baits. It may take a week or 2 to eliminate them all.

Susan

A case of beer and a BB gun.....:B:B:B....Dennis

One problem with rv's is they won't necessarily leave as long as they have a source of water and food, they'll travel with you. That's why baits work so well, if they made a new nest in your rv.

Used coffee grounds have worked for us.

Windex will kill them on contact when sprayed directly on them but has no residual effect. Works good when they invade an area you don't want to use pesticide on. In addition to climbing up tires, stabilizers/jacks, hoses, etc., look above rig for small limbs that might be touching roof as a path for them.

We've discovered when we have boat tied off to shore and leave snacks onboard, ants will crawl out shoreline and invade boat. I've started tying weight to line to hold it down in the water.

Those round ant traps are the only way to be sure. They take the bait back to the nest and they all die.

The new Crazy Ants taking over the south are invading everything. From what I read there is no poison that will stop them. Pest Exterminators are using combinations of just about everything to keep them at bay. People are paying thousands a year to keep them out of their homes and off their property. One article cited garbage bags full being shoveled out of houses etc. The pour out of a container like syrup.
I guess we will have to be especially vigilint now.
Spray the RV site before parking and who knows what else might be needed.
We looked at an RV several years ago at a Nashville Dealer. It had been brought up from Alabama. The front bay was full of big black and reddish ants.

Hondavalk wrote:
Try these http://www.amazon.com/TERRO-PreFilled-Liquid-Killer-Baits/dp/B000HJBKMQ/ref=wl_it_dp_o_pd_nS_nC?ie=UTF8&colid=1A5PLMYX5H6PV&coliid=I2N4VHA4ARRIJ7

X2 on Terro. Great stuff. I just buy the little 2oz bottle and put a drop where ever I see them. Come back in 10 mins, you'll see a ring all the way around your drop.

24hrs...no ants.

Jim