A colony of small black ants has set up shop in my mailbox. My guess is their old nest was disturbed because they are carrying eggs in their mandibles.

It beats getting a PSE bill, but I still want them gone.

Should I:

Spray poison & shop-vac

Get creative w/ the leafblower?

Garden hose?

WD40 & match?

Honey and your bare hand.

Apparently leaving the door open for an hour works. I had my WD40 all set to go, too.

Kill 'em with fire!

Fireworks work great on Anthills, I dont know why they wouldnt work well in a mailbox too

Wait until Halloween. Steal pumpkins from neighbors porches. Drive by at 60 and huck pumpkin out window at mailbox. Buy new mailbox.
Don't ask.

They might work good on Anthills but they suck at Ground Wasp Nests....at least as far as anhilating the wasps goes....oh sure they get agitated but I found out they are far from dead.

What she said....

Fine ground corn meal also works. Little blighters carry it back to nest, eat it but can't digest the stuff. Problem solved.

There seems to be an abundance of these guys of late....

"blighters"



Great word.

If spelled correctly. .. .. . I guess

One July 4th, my brother & I spent an afternoon blowing up an anthill with Black Cat firecrackers.

About midnight our very angry mother hauled us out of bed to go put out the roaring blaze which used to be the anthill & stump next to it.



Something else we used to do with yellowjacket ground nests was wait until late then dump a bucket of gas down the hole and light it. You could see them fly out with wings burning and drop to the ground.

When we were kids we used to oil the sides of a bowl and drop in a beetle or two and ants or black ants versus red ants. A Roman Gladiator Collesium. They do not like each other.

FIRE

Go to the hardware store and get some Terro ant killer. It is a liquid, and they will eat it and feed it to the ones you don't see. It will kill the complete colony. Works great!
Buck

It's Earth Day.

Go eat some asparagus then pee on the mailbox.

I'm running a slash burn today.

M-80 will do the trick.

1000 fire crackers split open, emptied into an empty roman candle tube, will also work. That will also flatten all other mailboxes on the post, disintegrate the 2x6 they all sit on, and shatter the 4x4 post that goes into the ground. Don't ask me how I know.

Fire.

I had a roman candle go dynamite all by itself.

I had planned to hold it but was called away and set it between two rocks at the last second as I was called away for a phone call.

Sent rock chips flying.

Last time I ever took part in a roman candle war.

The rocket fuse was nice. Before we discovered them, we made a cheapo version by cutting the female end from an extension cord, fraying the end, and twisting together two single copper strands from each polarity. The resulting POP when we plugged 'er in could cauderize a hole in a thin steel plate, and ignite anything we had close.

I can vouch for the UN-safety. We put a little honey we made in a burn barrel full of empties and stood 100 feet away. A sliver of glass the size of a grain of sand punched a hole in my friend's face just below his eye from 100' feet away. The angle was about 2* upslope to give you an idea of the ballistics.

Such is the way of shrapnel.

A cigarette makes for a nice timer.

I have a few stories about fire, explosions, and eradication of unwanted pests.

No...........seriously.