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    You also need to determine what kind of ants you are dealing with. In Florida it was fire ants, the fire ant stuff they sell everywhere works pretty good. In GA it was sugar ants, the sweet bait that you leave a drop on the counter for works pretty well, just don't put it were the pets are going to get into it. I don't know what type of ants they were in VA, some black and tan beasts, but they used the tree limbs as boarding planks. Trim the trees and ant bait traps worked well. In Utah it was bull ants, some ant spray and sevin dust slowed them down, you have to get them early before they nest in the walls, if you don't they can get really bad.

    It was Lady Bugs in New Hampshire, the new ones imported from China. I learned a lot about lot about lady bugs that year. First off, domestic lady bugs don't bite, but the imported ones do. Lady Bugs will give off a pherome trail like ants, so other Lady Bugs will follows them. They will also build nests and hibernate in the winter. So they decided to do this in the RV. Of course we left NH when it started getting cold. Confused the heck out of them. We had Lady Bugs crawling on the ceiling for about 4 months. We would just suck them up with the vacuum cleaner.
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    At home because of cats (who will lick anything on their paws) we have used coffee grounds and that has stopped ants completely. Wondering if this is a safer alternative in state parks? Anyway thanks for all the tips.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cchapin100 View Post
    At home because of cats (who will lick anything on their paws) we have used coffee grounds and that has stopped ants completely. Wondering if this is a safer alternative in state parks? Anyway thanks for all the tips.
    I found this article regarding the coffee grounds theory:
    https://www.gardenmyths.com/how-to-g...offee-grounds/

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    What we found was staggering the grounds worked. Do a line and then parallel to that line but offset do another line, then another staggered off of that. Worked for us! We had a million ant march from their nest to the house and doing this staggered line approach worked. The ants gave up having to do a huge zigzag to get around the staggered lines. Maybe we were lucky? With cats have to be so careful with everything because they walk and then lick their paws.

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    Many years ago, a person who wishes to remain anonymous decided he'd have a couple of adult beverages while sitting around camp. While enjoying said adult beverages, he saw an ant mound that needed to be immolated. This anonymous person decided that the best way to immolate the ant mound was to pour 1/4 cup of generator juice (aka gasoline) on the ant pile and carefully light it on fire. The anonymous person did not think things through. Who could guess that 1/4 cup of generator juice would leave a mushroom cloud the size of Montana? The anonymous person failed to see the park ranger in the distance who wasn't amused by the mushroom cloud. The park ranger explained to the anonymous camper that using generator juice to eliminate an ant mound was not a very wise decision.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by TucsonJim View Post
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    Only 1/4 cup? I had a 2 gallon jug.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cchapin100 View Post
    At home because of cats (who will lick anything on their paws) we have used coffee grounds and that has stopped ants completely. Wondering if this is a safer alternative in state parks? Anyway thanks for all the tips.
    I know the state parks we frequent in Arizona get real testy if you put anything on the ground (like coffee grounds) that shouldn't be there naturally. Spray poison is invisible and they can't see it, so I stick with that.

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    Try food grade Diatomaceous earth. This is a naturally occurring mineral that is mined. It is a desiccant that will kill any insect with an exoskeleton, but is not harmful to anything else. The food grade can be added to our food or pets food to treat many maladies. Google it for a full explanation.

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    First year with our trailer we had ants. Got rid of them using borax/sugar solution (they have to eat it, so just dropping the powder won’t work). 1/2 c. Borax, 1/4 c. Sugar, 1 c. Water, heat to disolve. Wet cotton balls with solution, place on paper plates. We did this while the trailer was stored in the driveway, between trips. We put the plates on the floor in all rooms of the trailer (a whopping 3-smaller seems easier somehow) and we put some outside, under the trailer. After a week, no sign of ants. Threw away the sticky plates and never looked back. (Forgot- put some in the front storage bay, too.) These appeared to be Carpenter ants, so we were constantly on the lookout for wood damage where we could see it.
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    This past week I saw a lady sprinkling the sink cleanser Comet around the outside of their unit. she said it worked for them. I suspect Comet may have borax in it? It is a gritty kind of substance.

    Down here we have fire ant problems and now kind of a new pest they refer to as crazy ants. They don't like eachother. The only good thing to say about the ants is they keep the scorpions in check.
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