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Originally Posted by andygrif
It only mentions mossies in the blurb....not sure if it would be effective on ants.
I seem to get an ant problem every year, so I normally stock up on every evil substance known to man. The best stuff I've found is a combination of the following:
1. Nippon Gel. Get some of those crappy tea lights from Ikea, get the candle bit out and bend in the sides, and stick a bunch of the gunk in it. place at regular intervals all round the affected room.
2. Some sort of spray...I forget the make - it's a red can. Leaves a residue that lasts for a few months, even through rain. I normally go round the outside of the building with this, paying attention to door frames and the like, and cracks!
The outbreak was pretty early this year - normally it comes in May, this one was at the end of March. I only had the gel, and it took a couple of weeks from the first sighting to getting rid of them - but it's very effective.
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Ours arrived in early March this year. We put Nippon gel down and they feasted on it for a couple of days. The ants virtually disappeared for a week, but when they returned, the little gits wouldn't touch any more Nippon. Honestly, I'd swear they learned it was bad stuff ...
Anyway, after that I bought a bottle of 'Ant Gun' from B&Q. It's a big, pump-action spray (i.e. nopt aerosol based) and I put it all round the skirting board behind the table in the kitchen where they mostly were running about. It worked within 2 days. We haven't seen an ant since.
Deathlac is a product I have used in the past. It works like Ant Gun by putting a deadly layer of poison on the ground that kills any ant that walks on it. The only problem is it is an aerosol so it's difficult not to breathe in when you spray it and is very unpleasant.
As for your plug-in forcefield - sounds about as plausible as a warp engine to me. Save your money.