DE will supposedly kill any eggs from worms, like round worms. The dog got worms and puked them up on the carpet. The wife was going nuts and wanted to get some DE to put down.
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I don't use it.
Mainly because it's one of my wife's BS tactics for pest control, which she can't seem to wrap her head around that it's only PART of the solution, not THE solution.
If that's all you use...you might just as well not use it at all.
Mainly because it's one of my wife's BS tactics for pest control, which she can't seem to wrap her head around that it's only PART of the solution, not THE solution.
If that's all you use...you might just as well not use it at all.
I use it on ants.
It is very jagged and sharp. It supposedly pierces their bodies when they get it on them. Kills them by multiple wounds.
Ouch.
It is very jagged and sharp. It supposedly pierces their bodies when they get it on them. Kills them by multiple wounds.
Ouch.
Terro Liquid Ant Baits
The best thing I've found to date.
These things really work.
Still not sure D earth does a whole lot on the very small ants.
The best thing I've found to date.
These things really work.
Still not sure D earth does a whole lot on the very small ants.
I won't waste my time with those, after seeing the results from my wife using them in the kitchen one Spring/Summer.
For those who don't know...my wife doesn't like using things like insecticides, weed poisons, and "environmentally unsafe" products. The rough translation of this being "anything that works or that I like to use".
So...no treating the house or lawn with ant/insect killer for ants.
One spring we had ants in the kitchen and, because her Mom uses them, she put out Terro Liquid Ant Bait.
And all Spring, Summer, and into the Fall I was greeted with a long line of ants steadily marching to and from the Terro Liquid Ant Bait she put out. Day after day after day. If I used a magnifying glass, I probably would have seen these b*stards snorting the stuff through tiny straws.
BUT...that's the way she wanted to handle the ants.
NEXT YEAR, EARLY SPRING:
I buy a bag of ant granules and some odorless residual pesticide spray and I wait until she goes out shopping. Then I spray the bejeebers out of the kitchen (along the bottom of the cabinets on the floor, around the window sill/ledge, across the top edge of the counter on the wall, etc.). Outside I spread the ant granules around the house, especially the kitchen area, out to about 6 feet. Then I crawl under the house and liberally spread more ant granules anywhere near the kitchen area.
When I'm done, the empty stuff goes back in the trunk of my car, to be disposed of somewhere else so she never has a chance to see anything.
No ants in the kitchen the entire year.
So this has become a regular thing for me every Spring when she's going to be out of the house for a while.
So if I'm reading this correctly, the closest you came to exterminating the vermin is when you imagined a magnifying glass in your hands.
yeah they do.
I intercept their line of travel with one. then leave them be. they are gone by morning.
larryh1108
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I've always had good luck by pouring bleach on the ant hills.
As you pour it on, you can see it collapsing and then you see all the tunnels going down.
Soak the tunnels. In a few days, ants are gone and the hill collapses.
As you pour it on, you can see it collapsing and then you see all the tunnels going down.
Soak the tunnels. In a few days, ants are gone and the hill collapses.