So I just noticed we've got a few very small ants crawling around the exterior of our rig. It's been parked in our driveway for a few weeks now after our last weekend trip. We don't keep any food inside when we're not camping. I've tried to follow them back to where they are coming from, but haven't had much luck.
Does anyone have any good remedies? I don't think they've made it inside anywhere.
I don't see them carrying anything like eggs or food.
Thanks in advance.
If it’s been hot and dry, they may be after water.
Last summer our rig was seriously invaded by Argentine ants, while parked in the BIL's driveway in Portland.
They moved right in and built several nests within two days. It took a couple weeks to root them out once we left the giant ant hill of Portland. I bought a bottle of Terro and had a big ant party.
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When ants in the mood for sugar, placing a few drops of Terro on a nonporous surface will attract sometimes hundreds of ants and set off a feeding frenzy.
Come back in about 8 hours and the party is over, the worker ants carry the borax-laced Terro home and feed it to the clan, including the queens. The borax is a slow-acting poison, sometimes one application will wipe out an entire colony.
BTW, we had terrible problems with Argentine ants for decades. About eight years ago, during our last long drought, the resident blue belly lizards developed a taste for them. The lizard population has since triple and the ants know it, their populations reduced by 90%. We have few ants today and have not used bug spray for years
Get a pet lizard for your LD.
Larry
Larry, is the Terro product safe for pets? We have two cats and the ants are scouting our house and we are reluctant to use any poison sprays for obvious reasons.
Sprinkle diatomaceous earth around all tires. We use it all the time and the ants won't cross it.
I agree with Larry about Terro. It has to be the best ant killer around. It's not a deterrent so if you don't like ants crawling around I would not recommend this product for you.
"Get a pet lizard ..."
That's no joke! When I was a lad we went to the State Fair (NY) and there I fell in love with a Chameleon. Took that little guy/gal home and spent many hours swatting flies to feed him. He also liked sugar and would lick the granules off my finger.
Had him for about a year and he lived in my Mother's potted plants. Sadly he liked to wander, slithered under the apartment door and when my Dad left for work one day he got smushed on the stairs.
Yeah, I know I should have had a Terrarium, would have been safer. Which reminds me of a friend who kept Tarantulas... but that's another story! ::)