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What happen to those dead bodies? => =>I’d try some of the room foggers with the fan runing to suck the stuff =>into the ductwork. (Turn OFF the furnace and any pilot lights it has). =>You may have to let the ducts air several days before you can use the =>system without it stinking and you may been to put a fogger up in the =>attic or crawlsapce. => =>Jim P. => — E-Mail: SkyWalker1689 at Hotmail period Company Analysis of the Nagravision Video Scrambling Method [ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/nagra.pdf ] discusses methods of how to decode in realtime without a regular decoder box the pay-TV conditional access system used for instance by the German broadcaster Premiere.
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: I think I have confirmed my worst nightmare. I uncovered one AC vent grille in the ceiling and I see some live ants inside. I also : had a bookshelf directly under one of those vents and the top shelf had lots of dead ants in it. In the past two weeks I am sweeping : up about a hundred ants a day, some dead, some alive. I was wondering why baits does not work in identifying a trial, now I know, : these ants cannot find their way back to the ceiling. : Since they probably made their way in from the AC condensation pipe, and now they are in the vents, they must have made their way : through the AC unit itself. : How would you deal with this situation? I can of course insert a trap in the PVC pipe to prevent more ants from coming in, but how do : I get rid of the thousands in all these ducts and in the actual AC unit? I’d try some of the room foggers with the fan runing to suck the stuff into the ductwork. (Turn OFF the furnace and any pilot lights it has). You may have to let the ducts air several days before you can use the system without it stinking and you may been to put a fogger up in the attic or crawlsapce. Jim P.
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>These are black pavement ants. I have been dealing with them for two >years. It was just never this bad. > <snip>
=== You’ve been 2 years dealing with the ants, could be (as another poster said) a large colony – or more than one. Give the baits and foundation spray time to work. Don’t forget that another generation or two will hatch out (viable eggs) even if the queen has died. Harry
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>> P.S. Keep in mind the fact that EVERYBODY is having worse-than-usual > insect problems this year. >=== >Ugh. I’ve been battling carpenter ants, but if I had to deal with black >widows I think I’d just plain move to Canada. >===
Brown widows love my screen room – can’t figure out how they get in <?>. But outside – what REALLY bites me <sorry> are those darn deer flies! Harry
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This is a new one on me. I’ve never heard of such, and I’ve been plugging away in the HVAC trade for a few moons. A duct cleaning service will take care of your ducts, though not cheeply. And a thorough check/cleaning of the system should take care of that. Good luck Jay – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – > I think I have confirmed my worst nightmare. I uncovered one AC vent grille in the ceiling and I see some live ants inside. I also > had a bookshelf directly under one of those vents and the top shelf had lots of dead ants in it. In the past two weeks I am sweeping > up about a hundred ants a day, some dead, some alive. I was wondering why baits does not work in identifying a trial, now I know, > these ants cannot find their way back to the ceiling. > Since they probably made their way in from the AC condensation pipe, and now they are in the vents, they must have made their way > through the AC unit itself. > How would you deal with this situation? I can of course insert a trap in the PVC pipe to prevent more ants from coming in, but how do > I get rid of the thousands in all these ducts and in the actual AC unit? > Will those air duct cleaning service work in this case? Should I have the AC serviced/cleaned? > Getting desperate, appreciate any ideas. > Thanks, > Sum > >> Either I don’t understand what you are describing or something’s not > >> right about this. An AC in Florida produces lots of condensate, the > >> drain line would not be ‘dripping slowly’. Most condensate drains > >> dump into a standpipe which, in turn, goes into the sewer line. Those > >> drains that come out of exterior walls are usually emergency/backup > >> drains. When the primary drain clogs or can’t handle the flow it > >> falls into the secondary drain which can just drip out onto the > >> ground. > >It’s not always done this way. In this neck of the woods it’s common to > >just run the condensate line outside, if the run isn’t too long and > >there isn’t a convenient drain closer. > In a humid area an AC can produce 15+ gallons of condensate a day. I > had one that dumped on the yard once. It creates a constantly soggy > area in the yard. > jim > ___ > Have a home upkeep question? Try my help page. It’s sort of an alt.home.repair FAQ. http://www.ghgcorp.com/jevans/HomeRepair.htm
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>I think I have confirmed my worst nightmare. I uncovered one >AC vent grille in the ceiling and I see some live ants inside. > <snip> >How would you deal with this situation? > <snip> >Getting desperate, appreciate any ideas. >Thanks, >Sum
=== Sum: I would identify the ants and then get a bait for that type of ant. As different type ants prefer different foods, you must have the proper bait for the ant. If the nest is in or under your house, you will never rid yourself of these pests unless you find a proper bait. Sprayng kills those you hit but the remainder only work harder. If the ants are coming from the outside, you will have to spray the outside foundation (Dursban, Diazinon, etc.) to prevent the ants from entering the house. What you are striving to do is kill the queen. If you can’t do that, the ants win. Harry
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>> P.S. Keep in mind the fact that EVERYBODY is having worse-than-usual > insect problems this year. The weird weather all over the country has > been ideal for the proliferation of insects. I don’t even want to get > into the problems I’ve been having. Suffice it to say that I’ve had more > silverfish, black widows, leafhoppers, aphids, ants, earwigs, etc. than > you could shake a stick at, so you are not alone. :o) >Ugh. I’ve been battling carpenter ants, but if I had to deal with black >widows I think I’d just plain move to Canada.
Ick. I think I’d rather have the black widows. I hate carpenter ants–had ‘em in my last place. They’d swarm the house every summer. The 1st year, I about had an aneurism when I saw them crawling out of the sink, cupboards, dishwasher, floorboards, etc. all at once. It was like something out of a horror movie! As for the widows, it only took 2 visits from the exterminator and they appear to be gone (for now….)
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I have just finished getting rid of carpenter ants!!!! I had a good number of them running all aournd the house. The source/nest was under the deck. Before I replaced the wood on the deck, I dusted the area with a powder for ants that I purchased at Home Depot, as well as spraying the plants aound the house with malathion (smells for a day). A friend of mine mentioned that he had read about creating a mixture of Boric powder and sugar, then putting it out where the ants can take some of it back to the nest. It is supposed to affect/kill other ants in the nest. – FWIW Good luck Sudhir
– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->I think I have confirmed my worst nightmare. I uncovered one >AC vent grille in the ceiling and I see some live ants inside. > <snip> >How would you deal with this situation? > <snip> >Getting desperate, appreciate any ideas. >Thanks, >Sum > === > Sum: > I would identify the ants and then get a bait for that > type of ant. As different type ants prefer different foods, you > must have the proper bait for the ant. > If the nest is in or under your house, you will never > rid yourself of these pests unless you find a proper bait. > Sprayng kills those you hit but the remainder only work > harder. > If the ants are coming from the outside, you will have > to spray the outside foundation (Dursban, Diazinon, etc.) > to prevent the ants from entering the house. > What you are striving to do is kill the queen. If you can’t > do that, the ants win. > Harry
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> P.S. Keep in mind the fact that EVERYBODY is having worse-than-usual > insect problems this year. The weird weather all over the country has > been ideal for the proliferation of insects. I don’t even want to get > into the problems I’ve been having. Suffice it to say that I’ve had more > silverfish, black widows, leafhoppers, aphids, ants, earwigs, etc. than > you could shake a stick at, so you are not alone. :o)
Ugh. I’ve been battling carpenter ants, but if I had to deal with black widows I think I’d just plain move to Canada. —
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These are black pavement ants. I have been dealing with them for two years. It was just never this bad. I usually can get their attention through either sweet or grease. Most of the time they go for Terro. When they find it, they go after it like crazy, in my patio right now I have a gang of them – they come out of a hole in the aluminum sliding door, go to the floor and attach the Terro. I have been doing this for two weeks and the ant population is not dying down. I am seeing many dead ants now in my patio (I swept up about between one and two hundred dead ones per day (no I am not exaggerating) but the discouraging thing is the number of dead ants is not getting lower as time goes by. It always get to a point that one day they stopped going after the Terro (as if they have changed their appetite) and I killed off thousands but it only represented the tip of the iceberg. The second population is more mysterious, this one is inside the house. And from what I can tell do nor form any kind of trail (same ant) and has nothing to do with the patio gang. This one juts wander all over and die. They seem to just look for dark spots (under the coffee table, under the lamp base, behind the refrigerator etc) as if they cannot go back to their nest. I really think they are coming from the AC vent but how they got there I have no idea. My current theory is that they came thru the AC condensation pipe from outside the house and found their way to the AC unit and the air ducts etc. I went up to the attic tonight to make sure the ants did not come from the ceiling and I did not see a single ant in the attic. Either they are all over the air ducts falling down to the floor or my tile floor has void areas underneath that is infested with ants. I mop up about a hundred ants a day in the living room / kitchen area with 50% live ones. My exterminator told me this species of ant must live outdoor in the dirt. Somethings don’t make sense. Sum – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->I think I have confirmed my worst nightmare. I uncovered one >AC vent grille in the ceiling and I see some live ants inside. > <snip> >How would you deal with this situation? > <snip> >Getting desperate, appreciate any ideas. >Thanks, >Sum > === > Sum: > I would identify the ants and then get a bait for that > type of ant. As different type ants prefer different foods, you > must have the proper bait for the ant. > If the nest is in or under your house, you will never > rid yourself of these pests unless you find a proper bait. > Sprayng kills those you hit but the remainder only work > harder. > If the ants are coming from the outside, you will have > to spray the outside foundation (Dursban, Diazinon, etc.) > to prevent the ants from entering the house. > What you are striving to do is kill the queen. If you can’t > do that, the ants win. > Harry
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– Hide quoted text — Show quoted text – >These are black pavement ants. I have been dealing with them for two >years. It was just never this bad. I usually can get their attention >through either sweet or grease. Most of the time they go for Terro. >When they find it, they go after it like crazy, in my patio right now I >have a gang of them – they come out of a hole in the aluminum sliding >door, go to the floor and attach the Terro. I have been doing this for >two weeks and the ant population is not dying down. I am seeing many >dead ants now in my patio (I swept up about between one and two hundred >dead ones per day (no I am not exaggerating) but the discouraging thing >is the number of dead ants is not getting lower as time goes by. It >always get to a point that one day they stopped going after the Terro >(as if they have changed their appetite) and I killed off thousands but >it only represented the tip of the iceberg. >The second population is more mysterious, this one is inside the house. >And from what I can tell do nor form any kind of trail (same ant) and >has nothing to do with the patio gang. This one juts wander all over >and die. They seem to just look for dark spots (under the coffee table, >under the lamp base, behind the refrigerator etc) as if they cannot go >back to their nest. I really think they are coming from the AC vent but >how they got there I have no idea. My current theory is that they came >thru the AC condensation pipe from outside the house and found their way >to the AC unit and the air ducts etc. >I went up to the attic tonight to make sure the ants did not come from >the ceiling and I did not see a single ant in the attic. Either they >are all over the air ducts falling down to the floor or my tile floor >has void areas underneath that is infested with ants. I mop up about a >hundred ants a day in the living room / kitchen area with 50% live >ones. My exterminator told me this species of ant must live outdoor in >the dirt. Somethings don’t make sense.
It’s possible that the inside ants are from the outside colony and managed to find their way in as they were searching for food – ? Regardless, it sounds like the bait is having some effect. Perhaps because it is such a large colony, it is just taking longer than usual. It’s possible that the poisons are simply flushing them out of their nest, in which case you would see a lot more of them than usual. If the exterminator has already treated inside and outside the house and if you’ve tried putting ant traps around the kitchen, etc., then I don’t know what else you can do. What kind of poison has your exterminator used? My exterminator used Ficam-W, which kills just about every insect known to man AND which has up to a year of residual treatment. If you are sure your exterminator is trustworthy, you may want to find out what he’s using and how effective it is. If he’s only treated once so far, he may need to come back and hit them again. Otherwise, it may just be one of those situations that requires a little patience as the ants slowly bite The Big One. P.S. Keep in mind the fact that EVERYBODY is having worse-than-usual insect problems this year. The weird weather all over the country has been ideal for the proliferation of insects. I don’t even want to get into the problems I’ve been having. Suffice it to say that I’ve had more silverfish, black widows, leafhoppers, aphids, ants, earwigs, etc. than you could shake a stick at, so you are not alone. :o)
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I think I have confirmed my worst nightmare. I uncovered one AC vent grille in the ceiling and I see some live ants inside. I also had a bookshelf directly under one of those vents and the top shelf had lots of dead ants in it. In the past two weeks I am sweeping up about a hundred ants a day, some dead, some alive. I was wondering why baits does not work in identifying a trial, now I know, these ants cannot find their way back to the ceiling. Since they probably made their way in from the AC condensation pipe, and now they are in the vents, they must have made their way through the AC unit itself. How would you deal with this situation? I can of course insert a trap in the PVC pipe to prevent more ants from coming in, but how do I get rid of the thousands in all these ducts and in the actual AC unit? Will those air duct cleaning service work in this case? Should I have the AC serviced/cleaned? Getting desperate, appreciate any ideas. Thanks, Sum – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text ->> Either I don’t understand what you are describing or something’s not >> right about this. An AC in Florida produces lots of condensate, the >> drain line would not be ‘dripping slowly’. Most condensate drains >> dump into a standpipe which, in turn, goes into the sewer line. Those >> drains that come out of exterior walls are usually emergency/backup >> drains. When the primary drain clogs or can’t handle the flow it >> falls into the secondary drain which can just drip out onto the >> ground. >It’s not always done this way. In this neck of the woods it’s common to >just run the condensate line outside, if the run isn’t too long and >there isn’t a convenient drain closer. > In a humid area an AC can produce 15+ gallons of condensate a day. I > had one that dumped on the yard once. It creates a constantly soggy > area in the yard. > jim > ___ > Have a home upkeep question? Try my help page. It’s sort of an alt.home.repair FAQ. http://www.ghgcorp.com/jevans/HomeRepair.htm
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