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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: JCAT on December 02, 2013, 09:18:54 PM
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Was down in the shed today and noticed a couple of ants on a towel I had drying over the stone guard. Had a quick check around the exterior and guess what?
I had left the extension cord for the C-Tek touching the floor in the shed and it was covered in ants and eggs :-[ >:(
Got out the fly spray and went around the outside of the camper, all good :D
Better just rip off the cover and check the canvas, hoping it would be okay and freakin hell they were everywhere the little bas tards >:( >:( >:( >:( >:(
So out came the camper and up she went and I have just spent the last 2 hours trying to wash the pricks away and they were in every nook and cranny possible.
Have found a few inside where the walkway was so I have had to do some light spraying. Actually emptied half a can into the air in the hope it will spread out and kill them all.
Why you little bas tards, why ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
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Good Advice Jason might open mine up before Xmas too, nothing worse little pricks :cheers:
BD
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Same thing happened to me, did the same as you, but then sprayed all the outside metal surfaces with a surface spray, and also got some of those little flat ant bait stations and left them inside the camper and dusted ant/wasp powder all over the wheels and jockey stand. That seemed to fix the little b*stards >:( >:(
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A couple of years ago we spend a week at the beach camping and I had noticed one or two ants around the bed area but didn’t think that much of it. When packing up I was taking the sheets off the bed and noticed some eggs near the bed. I lift the bed and find a huge ants nest, so they must have made that without us knowing while we were away.
Needless to say I went through a whole tin of spray and some more when we got home.
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sprayed all the outside metal surfaces with a surface spray
Same. After finding a nest in the canvas, I now give all the outside of the trailer a spray with that Mortein Professional Surface Spray every six months. Seems to work.
KB
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Put a baking tray or pizza tray outside the camper with some honey in it to lure the ba$tards out that way you don't have to clean the dead ones up.
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I usually suck the majority up with a vacuum (got a bagless version and then tip them out somewhere like into the garden where all our skinks are and watch them go mental on the little blighters
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Spraying around the tyres with Bifenthrin works a treat :D