In the garden, and RAIN!!!!
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UPDATED: Thursday, December 25, 2025 04:27
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Rain today and rain tomorrow.
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Been snowing around here the last few days and it's absolutely frigid in my house since I refuse to put it up over 58 degrees this late in the year. Warmer weather supposedly on its way though.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Mix of rain and sun here over the next bit.
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Rain stopped this afternoon and I had to throw out another trashed umbrella. Suppose to be dry here tomorrow. I hope so.
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Good luck Brenda. :)
Going to have a warm one tomorrow. Time to see if my ant traps killed the pests. They have been dormant for months, but I noticed them coming back about 10 days ago. Right after I laid the traps it got cold for 3 days. I can't tell if the zero ant activity is because it got cold again or if they already wiped out their queen.
I was a little concerned when I saw about 20 of them dead in the trap, but maybe enough made it back to the hive. Fingers crossed.
I've also read some great reviews on Amazon for some outdoor bait traps that I'm going to buy to get rid of anything around the perimeter of the house. I think I was going about it all wrong last year with the spray. I was spending an hour and a half every week or two with a super saturated dose of poison in a pump sprayer and they just kept coming back.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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I hope so Jack.
Traps I think are better for pests and better for the environment as well as you and other critters that maybe around.
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You're telling me. I don't think anything would have survived crossing that stone patio that the ants basically ruined last year with their anthills for about a week after I sprayed the poison. I wouldn't even let my brother bring my niece over when I was doing that. But damned if they didn't come right back a few weeks later, tearing up the patio even more with those damned ant hills.
This review is very exciting to me. Sadly, these aren't the bait traps that I bought. I bought the indoor ones that were a few bucks more expensive by another company, so I hope they work just as well. I will be buying the Terro outdoor traps next weekend though.
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Not in the habit of leaving reviews of any kind so my posting one is testimony to how good this product is. We live on a brownstone block in Brooklyn which has had ant infestation problems for years. Walk down the block on a hot summer day and there are little mounds in the cracks between sidewalk sections with ants pouring in and out of them. This summers infestation has been particularly bad and after trying several nationally advertised products we were going to call an exterminator. Fortunately for us we're having our facade restored and the exterminator wouldn't show until the work was done. In a last ditch, I'll try anything short of radiation moment, I ordered the Terro Baits from Amazon.
Saying these work and ending the review would be neither helpful to prospective purchasers nor giving enough credit to the product. It was quite simply the strangest process I've ever witnessed. I placed a couple of the Baits in areas of our basement that act as ant superhighways with a dozen or so ants transiting at any given moment. Being curious as to how attracted the ants would be to the Baits I waited to see a couple enter the opening I had made in the side of the Bait. A few ants walked in and didn't come back out so I left not expecting much efficacy out of the Terro products.
Two hours later my wife calls me down to the basement where I witnessed what must of been several thousand ants transiting to and swarming over the Baits. The next morning we awoke to nothing except a few dead ants on the basement floor. It's been two days now and we've not seen a single ant. Freakiest thing I've ever seen. Nothing in life is this effective! We also installed a couple of outdoor Baits in the front and rear of the house and both yards are completely devoid of ants.
Now if they could make a product for mosquito that was just as effective....
I mean... how often do you hear somebody rave about something like this, especially when it's something that costs less than a buck a piece?
My poor patio...
I could have saved it if I'd only done a bit of research. Glad I got my head clear now. Can't cry over spilled milk.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
You're telling me. I don't think anything would have survived crossing that stone patio that the ants basically ruined last year with their anthills for about a week after I sprayed the poison. I wouldn't even let my brother bring my niece over when I was doing that. But damned if they didn't come right back a few weeks later, tearing up the patio even more with those damned ant hills.
This review is very exciting to me. Sadly, these aren't the bait traps that I bought. I bought the indoor ones that were a few bucks more expensive by another company, so I hope they work just as well. I will be buying the Terro outdoor traps next weekend though.Quote:
Not in the habit of leaving reviews of any kind so my posting one is testimony to how good this product is. We live on a brownstone block in Brooklyn which has had ant infestation problems for years. Walk down the block on a hot summer day and there are little mounds in the cracks between sidewalk sections with ants pouring in and out of them. This summers infestation has been particularly bad and after trying several nationally advertised products we were going to call an exterminator. Fortunately for us we're having our facade restored and the exterminator wouldn't show until the work was done. In a last ditch, I'll try anything short of radiation moment, I ordered the Terro Baits from Amazon.
Saying these work and ending the review would be neither helpful to prospective purchasers nor giving enough credit to the product. It was quite simply the strangest process I've ever witnessed. I placed a couple of the Baits in areas of our basement that act as ant superhighways with a dozen or so ants transiting at any given moment. Being curious as to how attracted the ants would be to the Baits I waited to see a couple enter the opening I had made in the side of the Bait. A few ants walked in and didn't come back out so I left not expecting much efficacy out of the Terro products.
Two hours later my wife calls me down to the basement where I witnessed what must of been several thousand ants transiting to and swarming over the Baits. The next morning we awoke to nothing except a few dead ants on the basement floor. It's been two days now and we've not seen a single ant. Freakiest thing I've ever seen. Nothing in life is this effective! We also installed a couple of outdoor Baits in the front and rear of the house and both yards are completely devoid of ants.
Now if they could make a product for mosquito that was just as effective....
I mean... how often do you hear somebody rave about something like this, especially when it's something that costs less than a buck a piece?
My poor patio...
I could have saved it if I'd only done a bit of research. Glad I got my head clear now. Can't cry over spilled milk.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
When you bug spray they usually that is the makers say keep kids and animals away.
I know that even the non-toxic bug spray I use around this place gets too me if I use to much of it.
Never seen anyone rave about bait traps like that. Glad they worked for him.
Well hindsight is 20/20. Maybe you can see about repairing your patio that won't cost you too much?
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Originally posted by Brenda:
When you bug spray they usually that is the makers say keep kids and animals away.
I know that even the non-toxic bug spray I use around this place gets too me if I use to much of it.
Never seen anyone rave about bait traps like that. Glad they worked for him.
Well hindsight is 20/20. Maybe you can see about repairing your patio that won't cost you too much?
Well... Today is going to break 40, and tomorrow is going to be in the 50's. I should know by then if it worked or not. I've purposefully left a plate that has some ketchup on it about 3 feet past where the bait trap is, and I haven't seen an ant come to it in a few days. Even when it's in the 30's I would usually see about a dozen or so on it. They seem to LOVE ketchup. Fingers crossed.
The patio is pretty low on my priority list, but it probably wouldn't cost too much to fix it. It's just about 300-400 cheap stone pavers that were probably put on a flattened bed of dirt that had sand put over it before they were put down. The problem is that the ants pulled up what might quite literally be a ton of sand last year to make their hills, and instead of a relatively flat surface it is jagged all over and at least 30 of the pavers are busted.
It will be a pretty big job to fix on my own, but I'm up to it. Have to see how funds are after I get a few other much more important things done this spring like finally getting gutters on my house.
Sadly, I waited until Aluminum prices were no longer in their low point. The last quote I got on them was 3 years ago. It's been on the rise since then, and I'm sure the tarrifs aren't going to help things either. I probably will have to pay about $200-$250 more than I would have if I had done them earlier. Oh well...
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Nope... still got ants. Not a ton of them, but today is going to be pretty warm so we'll see how it goes. I don't get the feeling I'll really be able to test the potency of these traps until we really get back into the warmer weather and their feeding habits become regular.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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