🚀 go-pugleaf

John Cantrell (cantrell@sparky1.aero.org) wrote:
: In article <3588@labsline.win.net>, pat_sheaffer@labsline.win.net (PAT SHEAFFER) writes:
: |> 
: |> As you observed, they're coming through an opening in your house.  Most
: |> insects can be diverted (or discouraged) from entering if you take some
: |> time and seal up all the openings in the backs of your cupboards, at
: |> the bases of your walls, backs of counters, etc. with a caulking 
: |> compound.  This way they don't have easy access to your kitchen.

: Let's see, we have had them enter via the electrical wiring (from behind
: the faceplate covering an outlet), through cracks in the door frame, through
: the door strikeplate (? the metal bracket on the door jam that holds the
: door when you close it), the gas line, the windows, ... You get the picture.

: It is like the little Dutch boy and the leaky dike, stop one hole only
: to have them find another.

: I wish you better luck than I had.
: Yours,
: cantrell

I've found that a flamethrower is very effective in killing ants.