Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Calis Beach Forum => Expat & Property Owners Q and A Forum => Topic started by: hotlips on June 06, 2012, 07:06:46 AM
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I have an ant problem and wonder what other members have found was the most effective way of getting rid of them before I buy more products. :-\
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Pour boiling water on the nest if you can find it, or Boric acid sprinkle in line of ant run that kills them but dont use if any animals around its bad for cats n dogs. I have also heard that some types of flour do the job too as they cant digest it or something.
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You can buy ant powder for garden or for house ants at the little garden shop on outside of the fish market...
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What is an ant problem ? What problem do they cause ?
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I had a problem with ants in the kitchen a couple of years back, as some friends had left sugar in an open bowl when they went back to the UK. I bought a couple of ant "houses" from (probably) Migros & put it on the worktop, on the ants route. After a day or so all were gone & no problems since
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What is an ant problem ? What problem do they cause ?
My dishwasher is full of them and they are all over my worktops, running over the floor into the bin, in the cat food on the floor - shall I go on? Now that is a problem in my book!
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Thanks for the sensible replies : :)
I have tried the ant 'houses' before will no joy, but will give it a go again, also the ant powder - many thanks.
Have tried to find the source - that is proving difficult - they are the small ants and I have no idea where they are coming from. Hopefuly I will no be able to get rid of the blighters now!
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What is an ant problem ? What problem do they cause ?
My dishwasher is full of them and they are all over my worktops, running over the floor into the bin, in the cat food on the floor - shall I go on? Now that is a problem in my book!
Sorry , I did not think they were in the house. Putting black pepper or pieces of lemon on their routs was an old advice of my grandmother.
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What is an ant problem ? What problem do they cause ?
My dishwasher is full of them and they are all over my worktops, running over the floor into the bin, in the cat food on the floor - shall I go on? Now that is a problem in my book!
Sorry , I did not think they were in the house. Putting black pepper or pieces of lemon on their routs was an old advice of my grandmother.
Ahh! Now I understand - thought you were an ant lover and didn't mind them crawling everywhere!!!!
I will try anything even putting pepper on their routes - if it worked for your grandmother...........
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I always take Nipon out with me the ants take this back to the nest and it kills the queen by far the most effective way to cure your ant problem
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also take nipon with me
after sitting in the back garden one evening , eating a meal and found them crawling up my legs, to get at the food on the table
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Make that 3 of us then - Nipon works fast, everything else didn't work for us at all. We used to ask friends coming out to bring cheese, bacon & Nipon ;)
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Hi hotlips , are the ants still there ?
The reason I am asking this is an experience we had back in 1999 in Istanbul when the great earthquake happened.
In summer 1998 , we had a similar ant invasion like you described. In 1999 we were living in an apartment 2 kms away and still had the ants in the kitchen.
After the eathquake on August 17 1999 , the ants misteriously disappeared. I made some reasearch on internet and found similar incidents.
So I was wondering if the ants are still there .
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Cornflour works well - they love it
They take it back to their queen and she consumes it then when she drinks water.... (http://s10.postimage.org/9wqhk4sqx/kaboom.png) (http://postimage.org/)
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Hi hotlips , are the ants still there ?
The reason I am asking this is an experience we had back in 1999 in Istanbul when the great earthquake happened.
In summer 1998 , we had a similar ant invasion like you described. In 1999 we were living in an apartment 2 kms away and still had the ants in the kitchen.
After the eathquake on August 17 1999 , the ants misteriously disappeared. I made some reasearch on internet and found similar incidents.
So I was wondering if the ants are still there .
The ants have gone, but they had disappeared before the quake due to following the advice on here. Very interesting though - wonder if they would have gone afterwards! I know they take a lot to shift once they take up home, but I am prepared to suffer rather than go through that scary experience again!!
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Cornflour works well - they love it
They take it back to their queen and she consumes it then when she drinks water.... (http://s10.postimage.org/9wqhk4sqx/kaboom.png) (http://postimage.org/)
(http://postimage.org/)
Love it!! Will definitely try that next time !
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Mix borax with a bit of sugar and hot water. Put on a flat container. It has the same effect as cornflour but can be dropped into their ant hills.
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Ants still here in Fethiye - unfortunately quake didn't send them away!!
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Nipon is the best but be careful as it killed my neighbours dog, she licked it. You can get this liquid from the garden shops, it kills them dead. 5cc in a litre of water and you just spray on them, not harmful to plants and will last you the whole year. Turkish word for ant is Koringee (not spelt right) Was 7TL last year
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I have had big problem with ants the best product i found is called CATAMARAN you can get it in the garden shop in gunlukbasi maybe all garden centres ,sprinkle on there run within 2 days mine were gone . ;)
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Nipon is the best but be careful as it killed my neighbours dog, she licked it. You can get this liquid from the garden shops, it kills them dead. 5cc in a litre of water and you just spray on them, not harmful to plants and will last you the whole year. Turkish word for ant is Koringee (not spelt right) Was 7TL last year
Might also be dangerous for street cats , as they lick themselves clean and might be poisoned this way.
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Hmmm...do not use Nipon Teresa as all 1001 cats on our complex could suffer:(