Ants in my Pants!

"Entropic Force" (entropicforce) 08/12/2015 at 12:48 • Filed to: None

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Well, ok, not my pants. My Prius.
But Prius didn’t rhyme, and something something OCD.

Anyway, there are ants in my car. So far, I’ve only found the little sons-of-a-bitches under my hood, and scurrying around hood/windshield/roof. None have made it inside, but I worry they’ll get there eventually. I guess I should have expected this at some point though since I live in Florida, and Florida is 85% ants by volume.

Anyone else ever have this happen, and if so, how did you exterminate the little communists? I’m pretty good at keeping my car clean; I wash pretty thoroughly every other week both the interior and exterior. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer > Entropic Force 08/12/2015 at 13:07

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the little communists

It’s a prius. Maybe they took you for one of them /s

CalzoneGolem > Entropic Force 08/12/2015 at 13:44

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Flood them out.

Entropic Force > Smallbear wants a modern Syclone, local Maple Leafs spammer 08/12/2015 at 13:44

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#R3kt

smobgirl > Entropic Force 08/12/2015 at 14:19

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I got them in my car when I lived in Florida. I exterminated them on a 10 hour road trip by individually smashing every single one as they crawled out of the shifter.

Not particularly efficient.

However, in my house I’ve had a lot of luck with plain old ant traps. Just make sure you aren’t replenishing the ant supply by parking on their house or something.

Entropic Force > smobgirl 08/12/2015 at 14:31

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Damn Florida. Where all things that are decent go to die.

I don’t know where I could put the traps though since I haven’t spotted them in the vehicle yet. And I don’t particularly want to lure them in.....just in case.

I’ll try parking somewhere different, see if that doesn’t help too. Thanks!

smobgirl > Entropic Force 08/12/2015 at 14:37

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One more horrid memory. I’m assuming they aren’t fire ants? I don’t know why, but some kinds of fire ants are attracted to some sort of rubber or latex coating so maybe that’s it. I had an infestation in a work backpack because they were after a pair of coated garden gloves. Ask me how painful that discovery was.

KusabiSensei - Captain of the Toronto Maple Leafs > Entropic Force 08/12/2015 at 14:39

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Deltamethrin.

(I’ve used this on the exterior of my Silverado. No lasting effects other than dead ants)

Entropic Force > smobgirl 08/12/2015 at 14:43

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How painful was that discovery?

deekster_caddy > Entropic Force 08/12/2015 at 15:06

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Hah. Just back from 2 weeks of vacation in FL and our minivan had ants appearing in it throughout our trip. The kids were terrified. I was not - they were tiny ants, really small... but they just kept appearing! Somebody must have parked the thing on a mega ant-hill. Thanks a lot, Hertz!