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Hi Evelyn

A few years ago I had an infestation of ants in my apartment. The ants were everywhere especially on the kitchen counter where there were some crumbs. They were on my desk crawling on my arms when I was at the computer and also on the floor.

I had a dish sitting on the counter which was waiting to be washed. It had a film of some butter on it and the ants would go onto the dish (it was a flat saucer). I noticed that as soon as their feet hit any of the greasy surfaces on the dish, they would just turn around and rush away. This made me wonder if they would stop coming into apartment if I painted some vegetable oil on the floor, on the patio tracks and the patio floor along the patio door where they were coming in. I still would have to find a way to get rid of the ants inside, I thought, ...but lo and behold, the next morning when I got up there was not one ant anywhere. It's been about 4 years now and not one ant has come back. It's as if the oiliness is imprinted in their memory because I only painted the oil onto the floor once and the greasiness of the oil will have been gone a long time ago.

People should pay me for this gem of information ;))

If they come back, I will just paint the oil on the floor again. I am so pleased to have discovered this as it is a totally non-toxic way to get rid of them and the cost is just pennies. Actually the artist's brush cost me $1.00 at the dollar store.

So if you can figure out where they are getting into the pump mechanism just paint vegetable oil all over the place on the way to it and see what happens. If it works for you, you should probably do it once a year or so.

Then let me know how it worked out. Maybe not all ants are the same.

Helen

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Sorry Mark, this has been a hectic day and the ants got in my well pump again and shorted out a switch which required a plumber and he told me what to buy at Home Depot to take care of the problem. I certainly hope so. Thankfully I had bottled water to make my coffee with and clean my teeth with.

Amanda I'm sure Helen will pull something out of her bag of tricks for you but I know one thing that will work and as far as I know they're nontoxic and don't put off any kind of odors. You can carry roaches in, in a sack of potatoes or anything really. Sometimes it's a real mystery where the bugs come from. We got an infestion of water bugs several years ago when we bought carpet from a warehouse in an old building, evidently their eggs were in the carpet. We tried everything, even the very poisonous sprays, set off bug bombs etc but nothing worked until they came out with the roach motels. I bought several packs and put them in the kitchen cabinets, in the bathrooms and etc and in no time they were gone. They work better than anything I've ever tried. When my son and daughter were in college they rented an apartment in a huge old house off campus and it too was infested with these roaches. I bought several packs and I guess this killed them in the whole house, according to one of their neighbors. All the bugs came to their apartment to feast on the goodies put out for them and in no time the whole house was bug free. They used to come 6 in a pack but it's been so long since I bought any I'm not sure how they come now but they're very inexpensive. I used to buy mine at the grocery store where they had a section for fly sprays and etc.These roaches like to be around where water is, so the best place to put the roach motels is in the kitchen and bathrooms.

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Hi Helen,

Thanks for another good share.

The first year we moved to this house during summer, after about two weeks ants came out of no where and were all over my kitchen counters. The house had been empty for a few months I think.

I did a search and found that borax and water mixed to a paste would do the trick, the ants have left.

This year I had mouse inside that I put down mouse pellets and they have gone and no sign of the mouse and now I have bugs that I think they may be cockroaches and I do not know where these awful bugs came from either. They are not touching borax paste, sprays do not work and I do not like sprays at the best of times because it makes it smelly and hard to breath and more poison gases floating around. When I see them I sweep them into the kitchen sink and pour hot water on them which they do not like and they die, but more are coming. Know any suggestions from your bag of tips and wrinkles?

Amanda

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Hi Evelyn

A few years ago I had an infestation of ants in my apartment. The ants were everywhere especially on the kitchen counter where there were some crumbs. They were on my desk crawling on my arms when I was at the computer and also on the floor.

I had a dish sitting on the counter which was waiting to be washed. It had a film of some butter on it and the ants would go onto the dish (it was a flat saucer). I noticed that as soon as their feet hit any of the greasy surfaces on the dish, they would just turn around and rush away. This made me wonder if they would stop coming into apartment if I painted some vegetable oil on the floor, on the patio tracks and the patio floor along the patio door where they were coming in. I still would have to find a way to get rid of the ants inside, I thought, ...but lo and behold, the next morning when I got up there was not one ant anywhere. It's been about 4 years now and not one ant has come back. It's as if the oiliness is imprinted in their memory because I only painted the oil onto the floor once and the greasiness of the oil will have been gone a long time ago.

People should pay me for this gem of information ;))

If they come back, I will just paint the oil on the floor again. I am so pleased to have discovered this as it is a totally non-toxic way to get rid of them and the cost is just pennies. Actually the artist's brush cost me $1.00 at the dollar store.

So if you can figure out where they are getting into the pump mechanism just paint vegetable oil all over the place on the way to it and see what happens. If it works for you, you should probably do it once a year or so.

Then let me know how it worked out. Maybe not all ants are the same.

Helen

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Sorry Mark, this has been a hectic day and the ants got in my well pump again and shorted out a switch which required a plumber and he told me what to buy at Home Depot to take care of the problem. I certainly hope so. Thankfully I had bottled water to make my coffee with and clean my teeth with.

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Hi Helen,

Thanks for another good share.

The first year we moved to this house during summer, after about two weeks ants came out of no where and were all over my kitchen counters. The house had been empty for a few months I think.

I did a search and found that borax and water mixed to a paste would do the trick, the ants have left.

This year I had mouse inside that I put down mouse pellets and they have gone and no sign of the mouse and now I have bugs that I think they may be cockroaches and I do not know where these awful bugs came from either. They are not touching borax paste, sprays do not work and I do not like sprays at the best of times because it makes it smelly and hard to breath and more poison gases floating around. When I see them I sweep them into the kitchen sink and pour hot water on them which they do not like and they die, but more are coming. Know any suggestions from your bag of tips and wrinkles?

Amanda

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Hi Evelyn

A few years ago I had an infestation of ants in my apartment. The ants were everywhere especially on the kitchen counter where there were some crumbs. They were on my desk crawling on my arms when I was at the computer and also on the floor.

I had a dish sitting on the counter which was waiting to be washed. It had a film of some butter on it and the ants would go onto the dish (it was a flat saucer). I noticed that as soon as their feet hit any of the greasy surfaces on the dish, they would just turn around and rush away. This made me wonder if they would stop coming into apartment if I painted some vegetable oil on the floor, on the patio tracks and the patio floor along the patio door where they were coming in. I still would have to find a way to get rid of the ants inside, I thought, ...but lo and behold, the next morning when I got up there was not one ant anywhere. It's been about 4 years now and not one ant has come back. It's as if the oiliness is imprinted in their memory because I only painted the oil onto the floor once and the greasiness of the oil will have been gone a long time ago.

People should pay me for this gem of information ;))

If they come back, I will just paint the oil on the floor again. I am so pleased to have discovered this as it is a totally non-toxic way to get rid of them and the cost is just pennies. Actually the artist's brush cost me $1.00 at the dollar store.

So if you can figure out where they are getting into the pump mechanism just paint vegetable oil all over the place on the way to it and see what happens. If it works for you, you should probably do it once a year or so.

Then let me know how it worked out. Maybe not all ants are the same.

Helen

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Sorry Mark, this has been a hectic day and the ants got in my well pump again and shorted out a switch which required a plumber and he told me what to buy at Home Depot to take care of the problem. I certainly hope so. Thankfully I had bottled water to make my coffee with and clean my teeth with.

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Hi Amanda

Actually I don't know what you can do about roaches except to do what Evelyn suggests. I like to think I know everything and have all the answers ...psst, don't tell everyone, but I don't. That's why I only write about things I know. It makes me look smarter than I really am. :))

It was just a fluke that I discover the way to get rid of my ants.

I never have been infested with roaches and hope I never am. If it happened I would use Evelyn's idea. I might also do a Search both at Google and Yahoo. Answers.com also has some interesting ideas from time to time.

Remember if the little critters have been around, they probably laid some eggs, too. If I thought so, I would iron my carpet with a very hot setting but being careful not to burn the carpet. Insects die at 140 degrees F so they say. If I thought I had bedbugs laying eggs on my mattress, I would iron it, too. I might consider buying a steam machine that had a high temperature setting and steam or iron everyday until they were all gone. I would also buy a plastic mattress cover and zip it shut after I put it on the mattress and then I would tape the zipper shut with some good tape and I would let those monsters DIE !!

Helen

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Hi Helen,

Thanks for another good share.

The first year we moved to this house during summer, after about two weeks ants came out of no where and were all over my kitchen counters. The house had been empty for a few months I think.

I did a search and found that borax and water mixed to a paste would do the trick, the ants have left.

This year I had mouse inside that I put down mouse pellets and they have gone and no sign of the mouse and now I have bugs that I think they may be cockroaches and I do not know where these awful bugs came from either. They are not touching borax paste, sprays do not work and I do not like sprays at the best of times because it makes it smelly and hard to breath and more poison gases floating around. When I see them I sweep them into the kitchen sink and pour hot water on them which they do not like and they die, but more are coming. Know any suggestions from your bag of tips and wrinkles?

Amanda

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Hi Evelyn

A few years ago I had an infestation of ants in my apartment. The ants were everywhere especially on the kitchen counter where there were some crumbs. They were on my desk crawling on my arms when I was at the computer and also on the floor.

I had a dish sitting on the counter which was waiting to be washed. It had a film of some butter on it and the ants would go onto the dish (it was a flat saucer). I noticed that as soon as their feet hit any of the greasy surfaces on the dish, they would just turn around and rush away. This made me wonder if they would stop coming into apartment if I painted some vegetable oil on the floor, on the patio tracks and the patio floor along the patio door where they were coming in. I still would have to find a way to get rid of the ants inside, I thought, ...but lo and behold, the next morning when I got up there was not one ant anywhere. It's been about 4 years now and not one ant has come back. It's as if the oiliness is imprinted in their memory because I only painted the oil onto the floor once and the greasiness of the oil will have been gone a long time ago.

People should pay me for this gem of information ;))

If they come back, I will just paint the oil on the floor again. I am so pleased to have discovered this as it is a totally non-toxic way to get rid of them and the cost is just pennies. Actually the artist's brush cost me $1.00 at the dollar store.

So if you can figure out where they are getting into the pump mechanism just paint vegetable oil all over the place on the way to it and see what happens. If it works for you, you should probably do it once a year or so.

Then let me know how it worked out. Maybe not all ants are the same.

Helen

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Sorry Mark, this has been a hectic day and the ants got in my well pump again and shorted out a switch which required a plumber and he told me what to buy at Home Depot to take care of the problem. I certainly hope so. Thankfully I had bottled water to make my coffee with and clean my teeth with.

Happy Friday friends and I wish for each of you a great weekend. You know it never ceases to amaze me when I get something in my inbox from a good friend that just seems to be what the doctor ordered, like this one. I hope it touches each of you, as it did me. :)

This is awesome...............Enjoy
I hope you will enjoy it half as much as I have!!
Don't start reading this one until you've got a minute, don't just
'scan' over it.. It deserves some time for reflection.