Happiness no ants i tried the pork crackling borax & sugar,that is mentioned in handy hints.It works no more travelling companions!I sprinkled it around the wheels & annexe poles & levelling legs. Thanks for the tip, Mariner
milo said
10:35 AM Nov 29, 2012
I just ask them to go out side if they value there life!!
jimricho said
02:02 PM Nov 29, 2012
You're supposed to eat pork crackling, not feed it to the ants! Think of all the calories and cholesterol you're missing out on!
neilnruth said
04:29 AM Nov 30, 2012
Does that mean you have to cook a pork roast every time you set up so you have the crackling for the ants???
blaze said
06:39 AM Nov 30, 2012
we had a problem in Broome when we first arrived with singapore ants, nasty little buggers. They are very small and hard to see, not atracted to the normal sweet type of ant rid. They eat plastic, they nearly demolished a plastic bag hanging on the drawbar overnight. The only solution we could come up with was get the pest control guy in. The best $40 we ever spent. cheers blaze
Happyjack said
06:53 PM Dec 3, 2012
I used to be the production mgr at rentokilNZ many years ago and we made the best ant killer using strawberry or raspberry jam and mumble mumble active ingredient - until the powers that be banned it. The thing i learned about ants: only I nest will eat from a food source - so you have to kill that nest first. The you wait for the denizens of the next nest to appear and kill them off. and so on ad finitum. Hopefully inside a van you will only have one nest. :)
-- Edited by Happyjack on Monday 3rd of December 2012 06:54:16 PM
Gerty Dancer said
03:39 AM Dec 4, 2012
Thanks Happyjack and welcome to the forum. I often wondered why the ants "come back" after a week or so, they must be from the next nest! Thank you!
neilnruth said
06:48 AM Dec 4, 2012
Welcome Happyjack from us too. Thanks for that info on ants. Enjoy the forum.
Happyjack said
07:28 AM Dec 4, 2012
Thanks for the welcome - I haven't introduced myself yet but I'm grey but not quite a nomad yet. living solo in my 22' Golf Elite on friends vineyard (Crane Wines)at Kingaroy since March helping out with all sorts of stuff including machinery, plant, building maintenance. Remuneration is by way of power, food & internet. Moved from NZ after 18 relationship turned nasty. Hitting the pension next august and will decide what to do sometime after that - Oz is my oyster then, but Tassie has an certain attraction - although I've also set myself up for camping adventures, leaving the van parked up somewhere while I explore the back roads, not so backroads and National parks. I'm also a keen photographer - see http://howardjack.zenfolio.com/ ( couldn't get hyperlink in editor to work)
-- Edited by Happyjack on Tuesday 4th of December 2012 07:28:54 AM
Sheba said
10:37 PM Dec 4, 2012
Happyjack wrote:
Thanks for the welcome - I haven't introduced myself yet but I'm grey but not quite a nomad yet. living solo in my 22' Golf Elite on friends vineyard (Crane Wines)at Kingaroy since March helping out with all sorts of stuff including machinery, plant, building maintenance. Remuneration is by way of power, food & internet. Moved from NZ after 18 relationship turned nasty. Hitting the pension next august and will decide what to do sometime after that - Oz is my oyster then, but Tassie has an certain attraction - although I've also set myself up for camping adventures, leaving the van parked up somewhere while I explore the back roads, not so backroads and National parks. I'm also a keen photographer - see http://howardjack.zenfolio.com/ ( couldn't get hyperlink in editor to work)
-- Edited by Happyjack on Tuesday 4th of December 2012 07:28:54 AM
You're supposed to eat pork crackling, not feed it to the ants! Think of all the calories and cholesterol you're missing out on!
cheers
blaze
I used to be the production mgr at rentokilNZ many years ago and we made the best ant killer using strawberry or raspberry jam and mumble mumble active ingredient - until the powers that be banned it.
The thing i learned about ants:
only I nest will eat from a food source - so you have to kill that nest first. The you wait for the denizens of the next nest to appear and kill them off. and so on ad finitum.
Hopefully inside a van you will only have one nest. :)
-- Edited by Happyjack on Monday 3rd of December 2012 06:54:16 PM
Thanks for the welcome - I haven't introduced myself yet but I'm grey but not quite a nomad yet. living solo in my 22' Golf Elite on friends vineyard (Crane Wines)at Kingaroy since March helping out with all sorts of stuff including machinery, plant, building maintenance. Remuneration is by way of power, food & internet. Moved from NZ after 18 relationship turned nasty. Hitting the pension next august and will decide what to do sometime after that - Oz is my oyster then, but Tassie has an certain attraction - although I've also set myself up for camping adventures, leaving the van parked up somewhere while I explore the back roads, not so backroads and National parks. I'm also a keen photographer - see http://howardjack.zenfolio.com/ ( couldn't get hyperlink in editor to work)
-- Edited by Happyjack on Tuesday 4th of December 2012 07:28:54 AM
http://howardjack.zenfolio.com/
Cheers,
Sheba.