What to do. Jeep is infested!

[Lucas]

So I'm burning the midnight oil in the chemistry department trying to get some work done. I let myself have a break every four or five hours to grab a coke, do some web wheeling, and maybe grab a bite to eat. Tonight I left half a sesame seed bagel w/cream cheese in my jeep, and basically I'd been dying to eat it since 11pm.
I go outside to grab it, take a bite and think to myself "gee, these sesame seeds sure do taste funny" and I have a tingling sensation all over my hand. I look down and realize my bagel (and hand) are covered with hundreds of ANTS!

I think my jeep has a colony hidden somewhere in it, unless they crawled up my tires, around the suspension, into the unibody, and onto my bagel. Most of my drivers window are busted out and my unibody/doors are so tweaked or mangled that it is impossible to shut them tight.
On top of that I'm a 22 year old college student so my jeep is friggin' disgusting. There are probably enough crumbs and food wrappers in there to keep me alive for a week.
Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how did you get rid of them?

I don't really want to use insecticides because most of it will blow out the missing window holes anyway. Plus I'm biochem, so I know what that stuff can do to ya.


BTW, I ate the bagel anyway. I was really looking forward to it :laugh3:

 

[bajacalal]

Has anyone else had this problem? If so, how did you get rid of them?

Clean your damn car man, you have a complete ant farm in there.

I have an old dodge powerwagon and mice nested in there. I just used the shop vac.

 

[bburge]

Yes, start by cleaning it of all sugar and grease that might be attracting them.

Then there are a few marginally available non-pesticide ant sprays you can spray around the jeep. If you have trouble finding them, check WholeFoods markets if you have those in your area.

Or, seal it up best you can and fill if with the real nasty stuff! Then air it out real good or find a good wine to go with DDT! :laugh3: Maybe a deep red, merlow or cabernet...

bburge

 

[Lucas]

How long does it take to starve them out? I'm thinking this is probably a good time to herculine...

 

[Ramsey]

starve them out? your nuts man. you better do one hell of a cleaning job if you want to starve them,basically rip out hte interior or its not gonna happen.

 

[RichP]

I'd bomb it, put plastic over the broken window or better yet 'tent' the jeep. Never understood how someone, ahhh, never mind, got a 20yo thats a pig with constant 'science experiments' going on in his room, nothing like mugs growing hair...

 

[85xjwoody]

I'd bomb it, put plastic over the broken window or better yet 'tent' the jeep. Never understood how someone, ahhh, never mind, got a 20yo thats a pig with constant 'science experiments' going on in his room, nothing like mugs growing hair...

I would try this idea first. I don't know if it would get under all the carpet though so you might have some left over but will get rid of most of them doing it this way. If done and still have quite a few ants than I would tear out the carpet and get out the shop vac and get the entire jeep. They might even have gotten in your seats, inside dash, inside everything if you have that much garbage in your jeep. My wife has a problem with leaving garbage in her car and started to have a mold problem on the floor in the back so I make sure now that she takes out all her crap everyday. Good luck.

Kim.

 

[Storydude]

Sprinkle Boric Acid all over the carpet.

no more ant Problem.

 

[Lawn Cher']

Eat them.

 

[ECKSJAY]

Eat them.

Concur. There's nothing wrong with them.

Field exercise at Ft. McClellan, AL 7 years ago during Basic Training... Eating MREs and I set my chocolate covered cookie bar down on a wrapper on the grass. Sat around talking to fellow Joes and went to pick up the cookie 5 mins later. It was COVERED with those little sugar ants. I looked at it, looked at the others (couple of females with disgusted looks...the guys just grinned)...and shoved the WHOLE THING into my mouth. I chewed, swallowed, and grinned at them. One of the girls puked. We all had a good laugh at that one, even harder when we realized I had bits of ants stuck in my teeth.

 

[DrMoab]

Concur. There's nothing wrong with them.

Field exercise at Ft. McClellan, AL 7 years ago during Basic Training... Eating MREs and I set my chocolate covered cookie bar down on a wrapper on the grass. Sat around talking to fellow Joes and went to pick up the cookie 5 mins later. It was COVERED with those little sugar ants. I looked at it, looked at the others (couple of females with disgusted looks...the guys just grinned)...and shoved the WHOLE THING into my mouth. I chewed, swallowed, and grinned at them. One of the girls puked. We all had a good laugh at that one, even harder when we realized I had bits of ants stuck in my teeth.

You are such a stud!

 

[casm]

1) Send Jeep into space inside pressurised compartment of Space Shuttle.

2) Tie down Jeep and anything else you want to keep, open hatch between pressurised cabin and space. Ants will be sucked out.

3) Use inanimate carbon rod to secure hatch while re-entering earth's atmosphere.

There. No more ants

 

[8Mud]

Borax mixed with honey or powdered sugar, they die of constipation. No Chit.

 

[RTicUL8]

Clean your damn car man, you have a complete ant farm in there.

I have an old dodge powerwagon and mice nested in there. I just used the shop vac.

Clean it!
I agree - anyone look at the picture of his jeep?
There are lots of places dirt can get lodged.

P.S. I do have some containers of DDT which my grandfather gave me. :chef: and no - you can't have them.

 

[Beej]

1) Send Jeep into space inside pressurised compartment of Space Shuttle.
2) Tie down Jeep and anything else you want to keep, open hatch between pressurised cabin and space. Ants will be sucked out.
3) Use inanimate carbon rod to secure hatch while re-entering earth's atmosphere.
There. No more ants

Ridiculous. Sounds like something James Taylor would come up with...

Easier just to pledge allegiance to our new ant-overlords...

Lucas, seriously, you'll increase your chances of getting laid if you clean up your shiznit. Just rip out the entire interior, go to town with bleach, wait for it to dry and start herculining...

 

[Pogiboy]

I have the same problem in my 89 T bird. I have ants living in my roof. Tryed some stuff to get them out, but I think the winter got rid of them. if they are in your door panels or head liner like mine its oging to be a big pain. Let us know how it goes!

 

[5-90]

Yeah - clean (thoroly! Rent a steamer and have a go at the carpet and upholstery as well, and get the nastiest-sucking vacuum cleaner you can to get everything before you steam) and tent the truck, the poison the little beggars. You aren't going to starve them out anytime soon, and if they've set up a colony, they won't be lured out.

As far as eating ants on a bagel, so what? Ramped up your protien intake and was probably good for your head. Just don't eat any brightly-coloured insects, and you'll be fine.

5-90

 

[Lucas]

Lucas, seriously, you'll increase your chances of getting laid if you clean up your shiznit.

You should see this same thread over on pirate...

 

[Beej]

You should see this same thread over on pirate...

I have some recommendations on where you can find a good shiznit-cleaning device...
I won't post them up here, or this thread will end up in the den!