I used to have a problem when I got back from the coro and had loads of dead flys etc... on my nose cone, the ants would swarm all over it if I left it overnight without cleaning... very nasty.
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I used to have a problem when I got back from the coro and had loads of dead flys etc... on my nose cone, the ants would swarm all over it if I left it overnight without cleaning... very nasty.
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To keep them off the bike try peppermint essence/oil. Use a cotten bud to apply it to their access points. (Tyres and stand)Originally Posted by Str8 Jacket
Ripcord I use to spray my house...should be dandy on the bike.
My daughter presented me with a honey coloured ant with a stinger..I have never seen that before. I also found a strange ant a few years back.. tiny honey coloured and..so tiny..and the soldier ant was huge by comparison with big black heads and a nasty pair pincers. I froze a few of them and shipped them off to MAF. Apparently an australian ant that was just establishing itself in New Zealand.
My place gets infested with cicada's and earwigs. Cicadas are like a biblical plague. Every morning I have to sweep the concret they literally blanket the ground. They block drains and gutters. Whole trees seem to take flight when you drive past and the noise is truely and honestly deafening. They make a nasty crunch under foot and the fuckers get tangled in my hair. Id rather an ant infestation any time. There is NO cicada control that I know of
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Should you report this to MAF?
Anyway, park your bikes in a garage, or throw a blue plastic sheet over the top, and then set off one of those ant killing bug bombs
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Cheers all. It would appear that we may have sorted the problem now. Both bikes are starting fine this morning and we cant see any ants on the bikes. Though my battery was slightly infested with them last night we couldnt get my battery off as there were no tools that worked so just sprayed fly spray all over the battery and down the side. These ants are honestly insane!
"Some people are like clouds, once they fuck off, it's a great day!"
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If your battery was attracting ants and it was burping and farting it was probably accidentally filled with anti acid...
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We get ants at our place too, nasty little things.
I haven't had them in the bike, but just about everywhere else. You can smell the trails outside. Must be the formic acid.
I have taken to tracing the ant trails and using the patented Burt Munro lawn mowing technique for sorting out the trails. I trace them back as far as they go (usually to the fence - ant nests seem to always be over at the neighbours house) and lay down a thin line of petrol.
One match - no ants.
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
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Ants don't like mortein, or any other proprietary insecticide, either.
"Standing on your mother's corpse you told me that you'd wait forever." [Bryan Adams: Summer of 69]
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Is that what happened to Antallica, did he run into some mortein because we haven't heard from him since he sold his bike?
Cheers
Merv
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Nah, he's getting married. I bet he had to give up the bike.
And I to my motorcycle parked like the soul of the junkyard. Restored, a bicycle fleshed with power, and tore off. Up Highway 106 continually drunk on the wind in my mouth. Wringing the handlebar for speed, wild to be wreckage forever.
- James Dickey, Cherrylog Road.
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They are handy barometers too - they will come inside,and bring their eggs too,when a big wet is coming.In summer they will come inside looking for moisture...or something juicy.
I figure my big holes must be mice - the house has a low full block foundation,and I fixed all the broken vents.The only way to get from their safe haven under the house to the outside is to tunnel under and come up in the garden.The cats put their noses down the holes and think they are kinda interesting,but don't hold their interest....so the holes aren't ''in use''.I will monitor this situation....
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Just about all of them were running around with eggs. There insane looking things!
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You're trying really hard to convince yourself about it being mice , aren't you. Denial doesn't solve anything y'know, y'need to confront your fears, acknowledge the horrible truth. Before you find a dismembered cat on the lawn beside a larger than usual hole.
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Faaaark.....do you think it could be a Graboid????? I don't think it has moved into the Shrieker or Ass Blaster phase yet.(sorry Hitcher) I'll have to watch a Tremors movie again and see how Burt Gummer kills Graboids....
My cats are not safe....I'll have to put them into intensive training....
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Could be the morlocks...
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