Help!! Ants on boat...
 

Think I got most of them vacuumed up but want to leave some traps or spray just to be sure. Anybody have this problem? Found them walking up the power cord. You can bet I'm removing that tonight.

One word - Avion, get it on Amazon or Ebay

However I do feel guilty and am sure it will result in some kind of bad karma

Same here at are slips dam ants all over!!!

Hopefully they are after sweets, not wood.

Unrelated to boats but still ants: Wanna melt the whole damn colony ? Show them a damn bottle of Carb Clean.

I always had problems of different colonies around the yard and driveway (I live on dirt driveway area) and nothing would work all that well.

Until they met what I know best and use most ------ Carburetor Cleaner.

Avion is sneaky, they love it, it does not take them out immediately. They track it back to the nest and BAM - finito

Takes a day or two to eliminate the stragglers. I had a colony that made my kitchen a second home - by by ants

omg - bad ant karma

Just what you need.....I'll give you some of my spiders..

Or go to "do my own pest control .com" they sell a powder that you sprinkle around that will eliminate them and any that show up in the future. I had a yellow jackets nest the size of a small car in a void in my ceiling over the garage, I bought this powder and a puffer and blasted it in the entrance ( the hole where they go in/out) and it wasted the whole colony..Bad Azz stuff, wasp spray didn't do Sh*t, one puff of this Tempo Dust and Viola.. Now I puff in to any voids around and any wasp or bee that even goes in and has a look is toast, Best stuff ive EVER Seen.. and it cost $10-15....Do It....


CNC......They Have one for Spiders & Roaches too....I sprinkle that around and get the same thing, any bug that shows up is still laying there later. I'll never buy another spray :)

identify what type of ants they are first. Ants that are after sweets and food are easier to kill with products like Terro. Carpenter ants (usually whats on boats) are tougher, I had them on an old Scorpion I had and it took a couple of those bug bomb aerosol things but they were gone pretty quick with those.

If it's sweets they are after mix up powdered sugar and baking soda half and half they eat it up then blow up.
I didn't believe it at first, but it works! I hate them efing critters!

i9 did the same thing to a customers boat,,they were coming out of the wood work like crazy..i must of sucked up a thousand of them..they were in the stringers and all.i think the boat was built with bad wood and they were still in it lol..

ps..take some medical gauz and wrap it around the cord and saturate it with the ant killer..

We have used this Terro stuff - I believe we purchased it ACE Hardware and it worked wonderful.

I know what you mean - those little buggers go everywhere and a royal pain.

Also - I don't know if this is an urban legend or not but Downy Dryer Sheets I've read seem to get rid of spiders- they smell good too

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Heard about the downy sheets in another thread for spiders not sure about ants.

If I see anymore tonight when I get home I'm gonna run my air compressor hose and blast the heck out of every little nook and cranny. Hopefully the shear wind force will kill them or get them out.

you go boy!!!

The homemade remedy for ants is the same as crabs....
Only 3 things are required.
A fork, a lighter, and charcoal fluid.
Douse half of affected area with charcoal fluid.
Use lighter to light charcoal fluid.
When crabs/ants run from flame, stab them repeatedly with fork.

This solution makes one seriously re-evaluate the cause(s) of the first infestation. YMMV. :eekdrop:



Seriously though, Terro works well for ants, and Sevindust makes a liquid for just about everything else, but I'd only use it on the dock area.

Found this a under my rub rail a few seasons ago. Luckily they didn't make it inside the boat. Ant spray and a shop vac took care of them.

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