Usually when me and wife came back from work we usually hide in bedroom..(we were saying are we rent a room in our house .. lol)
It is very seldom that we stay in the living room...
coz we want to stay in the room and enjoy the cold A/C
Normally we spend a lot of time watching TV in our bedroom while eating tidbits..
I remember that my mum will scream and yell at me if I eat on my bed....
So mum's rules changes now.. kakakaka....
Because of this there are lots of small pcs of food drop on our bed....
This cause a lot of small ants start to invade in my house..
Not only the bedroom but the kitchen, the living room ..
arghhhh everywhere is ants...
There is one time I bought my fav siu yuk and I leave it on the dining table ..
and after a while it was full of ants .. I was so pissed and sad...
then I have to put all the food on top of a bowl of water.....
honey in a bowl of water .. so that ants can't reach..
My wife start to worried also .. afraid that ants might enter her ears....kakaka..
I say why you don't afraid that it masuk your mouth .. kakaka sleep with mouth open....lol just joking
I tried to use pesticide to kill all the ants .. but it was very smelly and it is not good to inhale it...
It works for awhile but it is not good when you inhale it....
Then I found this in the supermarket..
Family ant bait..
It was kinda pricey also.....I put it and it works .. but later the ants no longer interested to eat the bait ..
then the ants come back again
That day I went to a hardware store and I found this...
It was PLC ..
cheap and it works marvelous.. after 2 days all the ants are gone.......
They bring back the bait to their home and then all the ants start to share the food...
and now it is all gone..
It cost about RM1.50/packet... anyone has ant problem in the house?
Besides that my wife also heard some organic remedy that keep the ants away...
egg shell.. that keep the ants away..
by the way i saw this in the internet.. maybe you could try it..
all the Natural Remedy to keep ants away.
your post is so funny.. my mom do that too she put the container with food in the basin with water so the ants cant reach it ...coz she said ants are afraid of water... we also have this special chalk for ants... and it helps a lot too.
ReplyDeleteI also tak boleh than ants but sometimes it cannot be avoided esp when food and drinks are around. I am going to try the egg shell remedy and see what happens.
ReplyDeleteEgg shell keeps ants away? First time knowing that. I know the ants 'biscuit' that they bring home to their house and share with the entire colony killing them all. I hate ants.. they are such a pest!
ReplyDeleteNope! I don't have ants in my house - only when I spill some sugar or something like that...and no mosquitoes either. Don't ask me how or why - I really don't know. LOL!!!
ReplyDeleteThere are no ants in my apartment ... because there's no food in my home. The most natural solution, heheh. I don't mind ants actually, but I hate cockroaches :D
ReplyDeleteno good lah, eating tidbits on your bed.. i do eat in my room but never on my bed lor..
ReplyDeleteI eat... when in hotel room. Got other people can clean up after me later. hehehe
Deleteanyway, i am very careful while eating so that i don't left any crumbs.. and then the wrappers, i think you have ignored the wrappers lah..
ReplyDeletethe wrappers must also do something one.. normally after eating, i fold or curl them into smaller pieces, then use tape to seal them up, then sure won't attract ants already..
ReplyDeleteyou know lah, after eating in the room, very lazy to go out and throw them in the kitchen one mah.. so conveniently throw inside a plastic bag first then next morning when go out only throw mah.. that's why need to seal the empty wrappers first, else sure ants will come..
ReplyDeleteput the things in a bowl of water is very useful, but then need to change to water often lah.. else sure will attract mosquitoes and other micro-organisms one..
ReplyDeleteeih, your wife's concern is valid lah, the ants can crawl inside your ears while you sleep one.. actually if they don't bite then still ok lah, and if small maybe will trapped onto the ear wax lah..
ReplyDeletethere was once a cockroach crawled into my ear when i was sleeping.. at first i didn't know, just feel something crawling inside my ear, like trying to get out but it couldn't.. wah, so painful you know??
ReplyDeletei tried to use something to pull it out, but this makes that thing crawl further in!! finally no choice, i dripped a few drops of minyak angin into my ears, then only make the thing faint/died.. then i use the ear pick to pick it out, only realised it's a cockroach!! @_@"
ReplyDeleteSK!!!!
DeleteEeek!!!
How long you didn't clean your room to have cockroaches walking into your ears like that! kakaka
SK, how big is the cockroach? Eeeww.... Luckily didn't go into your mouth.
Deletescary or not?? that's why ah, ants is better than cockroach lah.. you better make sure no cockroach in your room.. or better still wear a ear plug to sleep!! haha~~ :p
ReplyDeleteI have no ants problem, but I have mosquitoe problems, anyway to keep the mosquitoes out other than spraying insecticide?
ReplyDeletehmmm, i hope i can find the plc here that helped get rid of your ant, we do get some ant problems in the summer when it gets hot and ants look for water.
ReplyDeleteYou eat in bedroom because you also don't want to share your tidbits izit? kakaka
ReplyDeleteI very senag. To avoid all these insects, I just pay for pest control company to come and spray my house 6 times a year. If got ants problem in between the scheduled spraying, they'd come in and do extra spraying for free.
ReplyDeleteBut every time after spraying (those done by us or the ones done by the management for corridors outside my apartment), sure got a lot of "mabuk" cockroaches coming out. Eeek!
DeleteAnts are harmless, any solution for cockroaches?
ReplyDeleteI was pissed with the ants in my house as it's getting bad.. so, I pour some baby powder around the house, and voila.. I see much much lesser ants nowaday...
ReplyDeleteMama's rules are always right, that is rule #12 - don't eat in your room.
ReplyDeleteI forbid any food in the bedroom, except milk bottles, haha!
My kids are used to the rule but not for my hubb... guess his mama didn't enforce this rule when he was young :p
So, every time my hubb brings food into our bedroom, the next morning I'll throw his tidbits into dustbin - revenge.
DeleteAnts are small pest, I'm not afraid. But I hate cockroaches and lizards! Cockroaches are smelly and lizards are soft and geli. Dislike their dropping.
ReplyDeleteCan kill the ants colony using the PLC ant-biscuits-RM2-for-10-packs (I got from pasar malam Ah Pek), but how to kill a lizard? And lizard moves fast!
ReplyDeleteI hate those 'smelly ants'! Crawls very fast one.
ReplyDeleteI bought a organic? drop from pasar malam cost me RM5, quite effective :)
ReplyDeleteWhen I saw the plate of water, i wanted to laugh.. that is what I used to do too on my kitchen table! My friend advised me to use Fumikulla...and it works too.. sprayed at the corners and side or wherever the ants crawl..and they wont come for some time... so far, it works for me..
ReplyDeleteLOL....even put in a bowl of water, the ants would still comes
ReplyDeletei used to buy the chalk from pasar malam traders
ReplyDeletebut now cant find anymore. Maybe banned
ReplyDeleteI have ants problem in my house too, the other day my little son said mommy mommy, egg shells can chase away ants. I asked him where he learnt this, he said from his favourite magazine " young saintist" , see I also need to learn from my kid, hahaha ..
ReplyDeletei actually has an ant enter my ear when i was child. it sure hurt for a day until the fella crawled out. *ouch*
ReplyDeletei use cinnamon sticks as a natural repellant. have not seen any ants in my apartment in the last 3 years. of course you need to make sure no crumbs lying around:P
hmmm didn't know ant shell got good thing eh??
ReplyDeleteI mean good function hehe
DeleteI also have my own unique ways to get rid of ants. I use white vinegar primarily because it is very effective, and it kills ants fast. What you do is you simply spread white vinegar in the areas affected by ants. You can also use soap water the same way. Put the mixture in a spray bottle so you can easily reach the ants in all their entry points.
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