Advice plz, Ant collony inside my house

Krawll · Advice plz, Ant collony inside my house

I've been living with ants for at least 3 weeks now. Yesterday i finaly found the entrance to their collony. There might be more entrances but i found at least one of them. It's in a crack in the floor.

The way the floor of the basement has been made before we moved here is they simply put a synthetic wooden floor over a carpet that was already there. Normaly this type of floor should be glued or something but my guess is that they quickly covered the ugly red carpet with this nice wooden floor just before they decided to sell the house so it could sell quicker.

After a few months, the wooden planks started to separate from eatch other and open some big cracks in the floor. Just so you guys can see what i mean, this type of floor is somewhat premaid. I don't know the right terms to use to describe it cuz i'm french and my english is kinda limited. Anyways you assemble the floor by puting the premaid pieces together kinda like a puzzle. It realy did look nice when we first got here but since the floor hasn't been glued, the pieces separated from eatchother and i guess that some queen ant accidently ended up in my house and found those cracks to be suitable for her to start her collony.

My guess is that she is probably laying her eggs right inbetween the wooden floor and the carpet underneath it.

Yesterday when i saw those ants coming out of the crack and going back in , it only made it obvious to me that this was their main entry. Now i realy realy badly dislike killing any living creature whether it's inside my house or not. I'm the kind of guy that will leave the spiders alone when i find them in my house or relocate them if it's a species i don't like.

Now i know there are easy ways to dispose of the ant collony . One of those ways would be to buy some poison ,then poor some of it around their entrance, the scouts would find the poison then go get their friends to come and harvest it then they would bring it back to the collony and after the queen eats some of it , it will die and the remaining scouts, warriors, nurses, workers will simply die eighter from eating the poison themselves or whatever ::lol::. As long as the queen is dead, the dead ants won't be replaced and the collony will eventualy dissapear. Now this is a way i would like to avoid. I will only do that as last resort because i would like it if there was a way to force the queen to come out in the surface so i can capture it and put her outside.

I don't know of any ways that could force it to come out though and this is why i'm asking you guys and girls if anyone knows of such a way.

I dont' wanna have to remove the wooden floor to find them. I'm definatly gonna use the poison before i start destroying my house just to save a collony.

So if one of you knows of a way to force the queen or the whole collony to come out, i would apreciate if you could share the info with me. If not then i'm gonna go and buy some poison probably next week or something like that.

Thx in advance

WBurke17

The only other way of evicting the ants that I know of is Heat. Back in the day when I was a termite guy, we used to use a process that used heat to dehydrate the termites, but anything else that knew how to escape would, including ants. So if you got one of those high powered blow dryer/ heat guns you could try that, but it could possibly cause some damage to your laminate floors..
Godd luck, Warren

Krawll

thx for your reply . Heat would be a good idea but i gave it a second thought and i guess the poison would be the only reasonable solution. The entrance of the collony is at one place and then they seem to change it to somewhere else. They can probably move freely everywhere under the laminate floor. I also don't want to give them a chance to hatch a whole bunch of brand new queens inside the house and make new collonies in every corner Razz

That collony is gonna know a sad ending and i realy don't like having to do this but i already ordered the poison and thats the way it's gonna have to be. I would never touch a collony that lives in my front or back yard though. I always leave those alone. I actualy like to just stop and watch them do their thing . It's very relaxing and there will always be an Ant somewhere to impress me by the huge thing she is carrying on her own Smile

And then they figure out once they arrive at the collony that , it's actualy not gonna fit in the little hole ::lol::.

anyways, i'm still gonna thank you for the idea. I might have use it some day hehe.

lizmotobike

does that talc type powder that flea busters uses work on ants? i am sorry the name of it eludes me right now............is it boric acid? works as a desicate?

cacoseraph

boric acid is poisonous

are you talking about the shells of the diatoms

oh yeah, diatomaceous earth. i believe it does work on roaches

Krawll

The thing i ordered is called ''Fast Ant Bait''
I do not know the ingredients though , i haven't received it yet Smile

Krawll

I found this spider in my house not too long ago , i'd say about a week ago when i was watching the ants to see where the entrance to their collony was. Today i went to see if the spider was still there and the answer is yes hehe. It also seems like she 's been helping me out with my ants problem ::lol::. That spider is definatly paying her rent so she is welcome to stay for as long as she wants haha.

If i ever decide it's time to clean her spot i guess i'll just relocate her eighter somewhere else in the house or outside. I guess i'll wait untill i'm sure the Ant collony is destroyed before i move the spider though.

Here is a picture of the spider with about a Dozen little ants corpses right next to it . The spot is very dirty since i haven't cleaned it for a while now because of the spider but the picture is still nice hehe.

- http://i283.photobucket.com/album.../Daddy%20long%20legs/DSCN2485.jpg