Ants wont go away... ON MY CAR!!! - Page 2

Setec Astronomy · 01-23-07, 06:39

What did you use?

CkretAjint · 01-23-07, 06:43

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Originally Posted by Setec Astronomy

What did you use?

Raid ant bait traps, and Raid ant killing spray stuff (light blue can).....

Raid has never let me down before. Plus that's all the grocery store had. I didn't feel like shopping around last night (been sick).

Setec Astronomy · 01-23-07, 06:53

Ok, I hope it's working. The beauty of the slow-acting baits is that it (theoretically) kills the whole nest including the queen, although in your situation, the fast acting may work just as well, since they can't get too far away from the nest

theamcguy · 01-23-07, 07:02

If the you park at different spots etc and still have the ants then the nest is in your car. Use something to kill the ants in the car.

Mcthings · 01-25-07, 10:15

You don't need to spray raid all around the car/parking spot.

Just spray a little circle around all 4 tires, or even maybe a little in the wheel well or something if it doesn't make any marks or effects anything.

I'm pretty sure ants can't jump, so they have to be crawling up from the tires.

Setec Astronomy · 01-25-07, 10:54

IME, and from the description, he's got a nest inside the car, so the ants aren't crawling up the tires. New queens don't go very far and aren't very smart, so they will make a nest in the first anywhere-near-suitable location. I had a beater that I kept outside, which had a leak in a C-Pillar window from a bad accident. I drove the car infrequently, and everytime there would be some carpenter ants outside/inside. I thought to myself how disoriented those ants must be to get on one end of the car in my driveway and get off the other end miles away at my work. I later found out that since they like damp areas, and nest in narrow galleries (in wood), that some door jamb and panel areas adjacent to damp carpeting seemed like a suitable spot for a nest (which I happened to find while I was waiting in line for hours at vehicle inspection, and decided there were too many ants in the car to have just been passing by at the time I left. Imagine my surprise to open the back door and have a hundred ants fall on the ground from the sill area, only to see dozens more streaming out of a drain hole in the frame carrying eggs away from the invaded nest! I think the only more surprised were the other people on line who saw me doing what must have appeared an insane dance as I tried to step on the ants).

As I said, after the queens mate, their first priority is to find a place to start laying eggs, and they don't know a car from a house from a crack in a tree from a crack in the sidewalk, so it happens frequently that they nest in some odd places. Both carpenter ants and the pavement ants that CkretAjint seems to have are scavengers, so they can find something to eat just about anywhere.

Seankf1105 · 01-26-07, 11:27

also make sure that where u park your car everyday that there is no plants touching your car. i had a problem with ants crawling all over the outside of my car over the summer and realized it was bacause i often parked up against some flowers in my driveway in order to make room to move other cars in and out

CkretAjint · 01-27-07, 07:13

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Originally Posted by Mcthings

You don't need to spray raid all around the car/parking spot.

Just spray a little circle around all 4 tires, or even maybe a little in the wheel well or something if it doesn't make any marks or effects anything.

I'm pretty sure ants can't jump, so they have to be crawling up from the tires.

I have been doing this since earlier in the week. After the first day I only saw some one the dash, so I wiped down the dash with some raid. No Ants inmy car since Tuesday AM!!! W00 H00!!!!! I spray around the tires everyday (ground only) and I think I am going to sto for a few days and see what happens....

THANKS EVERYONE!!!!

Setec Astronomy · 01-27-07, 07:34

It wasn't the ant traps inside the car that got them? If they were really crawling up the tires, and since you say you park in a different spot in your lot every night, you must have one hellacious pavement ant infestation in your apartment parking lot.

CkretAjint · 01-28-07, 10:10

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Originally Posted by Setec Astronomy

It wasn't the ant traps inside the car that got them? If they were really crawling up the tires, and since you say you park in a different spot in your lot every night, you must have one hellacious pavement ant infestation in your apartment parking lot.

Yah we do. I realized this when I had them crawliing on me when I replaced my lower radiator hose the other day.

Setec Astronomy · 01-28-07, 12:37

Then you should throw your spare ant traps out in the lot.