My room is fucking infested

HadjiQuest

By black flying ants.

They're all over. I haven't slept yet and I have a six hour class in about 3 hours.

I don't know how they got in here. I'm too sleep deprived to walk over to what looks like the source and find the specific area of entry, because I jump everytime I hear one wizz by....

What do I do about my lack of sleep, my 6 hour class, and most importantly my bug infested room?

Hooraydiation

They outnumber you. It's their room now. Try not to upset them, as you are their guest.

Tetsugen

Thats the most retarded advice i've ever heard.

In all seriousness, pack your pillow and blankets and head to your living room and bunk on the couch. Go to your 6 hour class, after buy a bug bomb and kill all the fuckers.

HadjiQuest

Tetsugen wrote: »

Thats the most retarded advice i've ever heard.

In all seriousness, pack your pillow and blankets and head to your living room and bunk on the couch. Go to your 6 hour class, after buy a bug bomb and kill all the fuckers.

Issue: All other rooms in my house are currently occupied by other people, at least for the next hour.

Hooraydiation

I'd sooner opt for a more natural solution. Apart from being wary of using a toxic bug killer right next to wear you sleep, if an unclean living area is attracting bugs then remedying that by giving things the once over will probably be an all around improvement for your life.

As for sleeping through the ants for the night, eventually you'll get so tired that you'll just stop caring. They're only ants. They're harmless.

HadjiQuest

Hooraydiation wrote: »

I'd sooner opt for a more natural solution. Apart from being wary of using a toxic bug killer right next to wear you sleep, if an unclean living area is attracting bugs then remedying that by giving things the once over will probably be an all around improvement for your life.

As for sleeping through the ants for the night, eventually you'll get so tired that you'll just stop caring. They're only ants. They're harmless.

I have no idea where they're coming from. This house is very very old, and it has a longstanding insect issue. I can remember this same room having a flying ant problem about 10 years ago, when I was a wee lad and this was my pappy's room.

If I had to guess, I'd say this is all originating from some space in my walls, by my window. I don't know how to get to them in there.

HadjiQuest

Alright, they are coming through a tiny crack in my wall, as I expected. Unfortunately, there are a fuckton of lavae right next to my bed.

Ewwww.

aesir

Call an exterminator in the morning. Your house is infested. Do you have a car you can sleep in? Regardless of whethers theres people in them, I'd still go to another room. Or go to school and pass out in a study room if you can get in.

HadjiQuest

My parents don't believe in exterminators, unfortunately. If they can't do something on their own, it can't be done at all to them.

gneGne

Boiling water kills ants too

HadjiQuest

gneGne wrote: »

Boiling water kills ants too

Aye, but gravity is not on my side. The nest is above the entrance instead of under it.

Synthetic Orange

Try looking for ant dust in your local hardware store, specifically targets ants, and all you have to do is either squeeze it into their nest or pour it on their paths.

HadjiQuest

I ended up just buying some earth friendly RAID and nuking a corner of my room with it. It seems I've won the battle.

This way, I can take off as soon as my post is over, and then by the time I get back, the air in here will be breatheable again.

Endomatic

Yeah, I've got an ant problem in my yard. They like to climb up the side of my house. I sprayed Raid along the windowsill of a near-the-ants window and they don't come inside at all. They do like to climb around it though. I spray em with the hose and put water in their holes, just to keep them on their toes.

They're all over the yard too

They're just the little shit variety though, their ant "hills" are more like little holes in the ground, not even a quarter inch of the ground.

Synthetic Orange

You made the typical supervillain mistake, assuming your enemies have been disposed of and not sticking around to make sure the job has been finished.

Endomatic

Oh I finish the job alright. With pure volumetric fury.

Nogs

Terro has some good anti-ant products, check them out.

http://www.terro.com/

Also this is what I found on how to get rid of Flying Ants specifically.

To get rid of winged ants or flying ants, what are usually found to be Carpenter Ants, chemicals like Diazinon and bendiocarbs are used.

People often mistake Carpenter ants for termites when the Carpenter ant begins to swarm, coming out of cracks in the walls and flooring of a house. Carpenter ants do not, in fact, eat wood. If they have restablished themselves in a home, it is only because there is an ample food supply (sweets and proteins), burrowing through wood only to expand their nests. To get rid of carpenter ants, locate their nest by listening for rustling noises in walls where you most often see wandering ants. Once the nest is located, drilling holes and applying residual and aerosol insecticides in combination seems to be the most effective way to get rid of carpenter ants.

also try this link http://www.getridofthings.com/get-rid-of-carpenter-ants.htm

supabeast

Ants swarm for a variety of reasons, many of which nobody understands, and it it’s a big swarm usually all you can do is keep vacuuming them up and wait for them to go away. If it’s a small, steady stream it’s best to put out chemicals, but you should talk to your landlord first and see if he already has an exterminator on contract, which many landlords do.

For ants in the yard, get the ant bait that they’ll carry back to the colony and use as directed. This can take months to work, but eventually it will get to the queen and the larvae. If you have dogs, make sure to cover the bait with inverted flower pots that are notched along the rim so the ants can get in, otherwise your dogs will disturb the bait (or worse, eat it). You can also get an exterminator to dump a massive quantity of appropriate toxic stuff right on top of the anthill, but it’s usually illegal and not a good idea if you or your neighbors have pets, children, or drink well water.

Endomatic

I'm going to look into ant bait traps then, thanks.

They're not particularly intrusive YET. So I might as well nip the problem in the bud now.

HadjiQuest

My room reaks of cloves.

It used t be my father's room, and one window was boarded off with a little tiny airhole, and the other has an air conditioner in it. He was a very crazy man; a crazy man who often broke a sweat.

Not that he's dead or anything. He just moved into the living room.

Anyway, I figured the tiny little hole in the window would still be able to vent my room over the course of 7 hours. Guess I figured wrong.....I just unboarded it and things are getting slightly better over time. It didn't help that I sprayed the screen because I saw a spider on it. As for the ants, there's a massive pile of tiny any larvae around the side of my futon. I sprayed some of them so hard they were crushed into my wall.

They won't bother me again. Then I decided since I was at it, I may as well spray my centipede problem areas. That didn't go so well, as I forgot to take gravity and the ammount of my fire into consideration, and the room was quickly showered in a rain of RAID. But hey, at least it's the earth-friendly kind (although that doesn't make it any less putrid).

Scosglen

A nonchemical option for outdoor use is Diatomaceous earth. I recently was re-caulking some areas of my driveway and ran into some problems with biting black ants who weren't too fond of my air-hose when I was cleaning out the cracks. A little diatomaceous earth at the openings of the apparent nests and they virtually disappeared within a few days.

LadyM

Ants also hate baby powder. I'm not sure if it actually kills them, but they won't cross a line of it.

cooljammer00

right, i think that's the chalk line and stick of gum method.

drunkgnoll

Use a bug bomb. I once had an infestation of fleas in my house (and I have inside cats goddamnit) and it was the only way to get them out. My family tried everything, but only repeated use of those bug bombs worked. DO NOT PUT THIS OFF THOUGH. This can go from a $10 to a $100 to a $10,000 problem simply by ignoring it for a day or so.

HyperAquaBlast

I had ants in my room awhile ago. I don't know if it works for your ants but my method was Nutrisweet because of somekind of tartar shit in it that smells good to them but is a poison for them too. You put a small mound of it by the ant entrance and they'll take it back to their family who then share it amogst the hive. Genocide.

MuddBudd

Might want to find the crack they entered and seal it off with caulk or something.

Pants Man

this sounds like the worst bedroom in the history of the universe


centipedes? ants? larvae? spiders?

fuck that shit, i'd say find a new room entirely or stop the stopgap measures and go nuclear on those litte douchebag's asses. take everything out of that room and do a top to bottom check of your room for infestation points, and take care of 'em.

i can't believe your parents won't fumigate after all those bugs.

HadjiQuest

Pants Man wrote: »

this sounds like the worst bedroom in the history of the universe


centipedes? ants? larvae? spiders?

fuck that shit, i'd say find a new room entirely or stop the stopgap measures and go nuclear on those litte douchebag's asses. take everything out of that room and do a top to bottom check of your room for infestation points, and take care of 'em.

i can't believe your parents won't fumigate after all those bugs.

I told my mom about the flying ants, and she just told me it happened occassionally.

That was all.... didn't say anything else.

Psychotic One

Fire....Lots of it!

But seriously I woudld probably move things away from the wall and do a sweep of the room. If you find any cracks in the wall maybe spray inside with some spray then cover it up with carpenters putty or something to seal it. May seem like a pain in the ass but better than finding ants having a square dance on your chest at 3 in the morning with the centipedes playing the fiddle

Peeps Chicken

HadjiQuest wrote: »

Pants Man wrote: »

this sounds like the worst bedroom in the history of the universe


centipedes? ants? larvae? spiders?

fuck that shit, i'd say find a new room entirely or stop the stopgap measures and go nuclear on those litte douchebag's asses. take everything out of that room and do a top to bottom check of your room for infestation points, and take care of 'em.

i can't believe your parents won't fumigate after all those bugs.

I told my mom about the flying ants, and she just told me it happened occassionally.

That was all.... didn't say anything else.

They aren't worshipping Beelzebub in the basement, by any chance? Because that sounds horrible.

I had a regular ant infestation in my aparment complex once... they were following a few very specific paths along the wall, so I taped ant traps right along the path, and all around the hole they were coming from. The infestation eventually cleared up as they died, and I caulked the hole.

bigpanda

My parents have a flying ant/termite problem due to the old railroad ties that the previous homeowner used to shore up the shitty garden in the front yard. There's a good sized crack in the bricks which they use to get into the house every March when the first warm up of the year hits. They get infested in the laundry room and bathroom where the crack is for about 3 days then they disappear. For whatever reason the folks are fine with it but it drove me fucking bat shit when I lived there. I'd go on a rampage with the vacuum cleaner and bug spray when it would happen but it always infuriated me that my father didn't care about it.

My advice, find a less buggy place and move out.