Over the past few days I have been seeing a couple of ants a day inside my truck. I thought some may have been getting in because of all the rain we have been having recently.

Today I was running a wire for my CB antenna and found a nest w/eggs under the carpet in the front passenger area.

I got out the shop vac and some ant spray and started spraying and vaccuming up what I can see.

Is there any other solution to killing all the ants? I am thinking I may have to pull up all the carpet in that area to kill them, am I right? I hope not.

I rarely eat in my truck but always keep it clean and never leave food in it.

EDIT: My truck was in the body shop for 4 weeks after an accident. In the stone parking lot next to my truck were dead fish, the body shop manager said they were from another car. I'm thinking that the ants got in the truck because it was sitting near the dead fish... does that sound logical to anyone?

 

Seems they would need a reason to get in there in the first place. I suppose you could dump a bug-bomb in the truck and let it sit overnight. That oughta get rid of them...

 

Well, you could try those ant baits from the local hardware store. Just put one or two of those near those ants and wait for them to kill themselves.

It sounds better than spraying poison and leaving it in your truck.

 

The new anti-ant procedure is to get the thing that they go to & eat then,they go back to where the queen is & kills the whole colony.
or
Keep stepping on them until they cry *Uncle*

 

Just park the truck in the hot sun with the windows rolled up in a black top parking lot. That will kill them once the temperature reaches 160+ degrees for a few hours.

 

well it seems you found the nest....ants dont need food to move their nest...they move their nest because conditions make them ie: rain ....now if you found and sprayed the nest then most of them will more than likely die...when that happens the queen will die because she relies on them to feed her...if you kill off her workers then she has no one to feed her.....if that dont work then i would try some baits and maybe thatll kill em...good luck man i had ants something feirce in my truck there was a nest under the center console in the 01' as i never lift it....it turned out they were jumping out of a tree i was parking under at work....they werent biting ants either ther were some weird looking lil short fat ants....either way one day i lifted the center console to allow 3 in front and WOW where the hell did those come from.....i swpet them out eggs and all and never seen em again.

 

bug bomb bug bomb!!!

when i was a little kid my friend and i would take a can of lysol, hold a lighter to it and take our homemade flame-thrower to the anthills in his back yard... after we got tired of jumping over them on his dirtbike

 

Yea, the perfect solution to ridding yourself of those little peaceful ants. I'll send you up some nice southern fire ants......that'll fix your ant problem. Then when they're all dead and gone......you'll have a fire ant problem......far more of a memorable experiance. http://fireant.tamu.edu/
Yea man..............bug bomb the truck. Works.
Just be careful that you dont http://www.nbc4.tv/news/2711548/detail.html

 

Do not use bug bomb! the chemical residue is not good for you and others.

try some of the other suggestion's first.....

 

Ah, but the stuff tastes so good......how can you talk so bad about it.

Residue............Good point......no wonder I get the shakes when I'm in the house.

Maybe http://www.ortho.com/index.cfm?poeSi...oductId=101670

Use that stuff many many places.

 

that is a better solution, Peppy,
at least you can spray only the problem areas, unlike bug bomb that covers everything including your duct work for the air/heat system.

 

That's pretty much what I used, just a different company. Since it's an interior bug spray it doesn't have the smell.

 

I don,t know about ants in a truck,but I had ants in a kitchen of an old house I used to live in.I tried the bait traps with some success.Someone told me to try dishwasing soap.It worked great.I was told the soap kills the scent trail they use to get back to there nest.Also I just put it on the counter right where they where at, since it is just soap it wipes right up. Or you could get another piece of rear window glass and press it against your existing rear glass and have your on mobile ant farm. "PIMP MY RIDE"lol.