Bug bombs

Boil some water. Dissolve a bunch of sugar into it mixed with Boric Acid(available at any drug store or Walmart) to form a thick liquid. Brush this liquid around any areas where you see ants, or other insects. They will all be gone/dead within a day or so and the dried Boric acid solution will keep them away for months.
This solution has no odor.

The propane alarm may sound, mine will with Raid flying insect spray, but then that's a good sign its working.

smkettner wrote:
I am really loathe to spray that stuff where I reside. Usually there is a better way than filling your environment with toxins. +1 for rockhillmanor suggestions.

To answer your question... your stuff will survive just fine.

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I am really loathe to spray that stuff where I reside. Usually there is a better way than filling your environment with toxins. +1 for rockhillmanor suggestions.

To answer your question... your stuff will survive just fine.

With my recent experience with infestations, what kind of bugs are you trying to annoy? :?

FYI:

Sevin 'powder' (not the granules)



Terro ant bait. I found the only one that works is the 'liquid' type.

http://www.terro.com/terro-liquid-ant-baits-2-pack

And don't forget the pure coconut oil and vinegar for the Spiders.

Good Luck hope you are bug free real soon! :C

k.jensen6 wrote:
OP: We have spent the winter in Florida, and we are seeing tiny sugar

ants

and miscellaneous

spiders.

OH My!

Those bugs are

NOT a reason to set off a chemical bomb

in the RV.

Here is what I learned how to stop them and how to get rid of them once you have them.

Those ants are really not the sugar ants we know of up North. First of all you need to set up a perimeter of "Sevin" around your RV AND on top of ALL cords leading to your MH whenever parked and at all times. Do not lean anything against your MH while staying in Florida.

That will PREVENT those darn Floridian ants from getting in.

Since you already have them you need to get a bunch of ant bait packages and put then all around the sinks, under the couch and everywhere you can where a pet can't get to it. These ants are always seeking moisture/water.

This will take over a week or so to kill them. But if you don't put the ant baits out they will overrun you! I found the Terro ones to be the best found at any grocery store. Then keep a maintenance set of bait traps under all the sinks at all times.

The SPIDERS can be taken care of very easily by putting pure coconut oil and vinegar in a spray bottle and spraying on the ceiling where you see them nesting etc.

Yup, you really have to be very PRO-ACTIVE with bugs when staying in Florida. :W

Hope this info helps you! :C

I agree with others, but want to add something. I am freaky about those bombs. If the "fumes" wander up and into every crack of the woodwork (as advertised on tv), then it'll get in your food. I put EVERYTHING in the cupboards in zip lock bags.. If the bag isn't big enough, then I wrapped them in plastic wrap.....make a zombie out of it. Been known to haul a 25 lb bag of sugar out of the house before bombing. We kept getting flying critters in our food up north. One time, I got lazy and didn't take the bags back off. About 2-3 weeks later, I started seeing the flying critters in our food. Even found them IN the jar of Lipton Ice Tea mix and in jello boxes!!!!!! Once I dumped all those....I didn't have another problem!!!!

We end up with aot of critters if the winter season stays mild here. Haven't had extended freezes for several winters now.

Haven't started spring cleaning yet in my two parked trailers but bet we have insects big time... I will camp here at home in my OFF-ROAD Camper a few times in CAMP BACKYARD before heading out...

Every time someone mentions the small sand ants always makes me smile. We go to Lakewood Myrtle beach every year in the late SEP early OCT time frame for mini family gettogether. They are overrun big time with those small sand ants as I call them. A week sitting there in the sand I get loaded down big time in both my truck and trailer. When we leave there we usually head for Gatlinburg TN to get a couple of nights there then come on back home to Virginia via I81..

There is no telling how many sand ants we have transplanted to the Smoky Mtns from our trips hehe... Probably have broken some laws hehe...

Roy Ken

Have done it a few times..First time it worked... Alas,success has been limited the last couple times.

A couple months ago it looked like a "Bug Bomb" had gone off in here (An Explosion of bugs) I got most of'em cleared out but am still fighting.