parent of newborn need exterminator
We have a MASSIVE ant problem in our garden level apartment. We’ve tried ant trays, and we’ve tried every green-friendly solution I can find online (e.g., spraying warm water with dish detergent). I’m normally not at all above NUKING the bastards with the most toxic stuff I can find — the more carcinogenic, the better…
We have a MASSIVE ant problem in our garden level apartment. We’ve tried ant trays, and we’ve tried every green-friendly solution I can find online (e.g., spraying warm water with dish detergent). I’m normally not at all above NUKING the bastards with the most toxic stuff I can find — the more carcinogenic, the better — but I have a baby who’s about to start crawling. Any suggestions for an exterminator I can truly trust not to do anything that will harm my kid? Thanks.
While it’s true that cinnamon and baby powder work, I used caramel and a confectioners sugar anglaise to perfection back in 1972, before it was gauche to call a vente a grande and long before babies snorted chalk. Kids these days, huffing in the streets of Chinatown! Please.
try cinnamon. they don’t cross that either!
ants will not cross talcum powder, for some reason. that is probably why the chalk works, though there is no telling what other ingredients are in it so i wouldn’t use it. i lived down south and had a terrible ant problem which i solved by boiling water and pouring it into the ant beds. you have to kill the queen.
I’ve had problems with ants since moving to my new brownstone. I just ordered the diatect stuff (plus extra stuff for pets and bed bugs). I hope it works, the website made it sound very good, safe, and effective. I’ll let you know my experience.
That chinatown stuff is really toxic.
Think about it: it turns into a powder which can be easily aspirated (aka “breathed in”) and you have a newborn who will be crawling around ON THE FLOOR. Eeeks.
I recommend Peter Scala at Parkway (www.parkwaybugs.com). He treated my house (with a newborn present) a while back and his wife was about to have their second, so he can relate for sure.
(hate to admit it but you made me laugh 4:59!)
I had ants before and had an exterminator who didn’t do much. Finally I used that stuff that’s a stick of white chalk I bought in Chinatown that you draw in places they crawl across or come out of. I have no idea if it’s toxic. I have a cat and she wasn’t harmed by it. But it worked.
That title has a really dark & gruesome ring to it. FYI
try this stuff: http://www.diatect.com/how-to-kill-sugar-ants-safely.php
it’s worked well for us.