Apologies for belaboring this topic, given that it comes up at least once per month, but I was wondering if anyone else had success using human urine to foil ant colonies. I recently returned from a friend who lives in Three Rivers, TX. He keeps a sulcata, and the topic of ants came up, about how much we hate them and my bemoaning the fact that they're impossible to kill lest one uses boiling water and poisons. During the discussion, he disclosed his method of dealing with them, namely, human urine. Now, this is going to sound disgusting, so fair warning to those with an especially stringent sense of hygiene, but my friend fills a few gallon jugs of urine every few months. He keeps these in reserve, and simply lets them "age." By the time winter is done and the ants are spreading their mounds onto his property in the spring time, anywhere he finds them, he just puts on a pair of surgical gloves and pours a gallon of rancid urine on the mound, after which he fences off the area like a biohazard and gives it a few days. He says if the ants haven't had enough, he lays on another gallon. He says the smell is eventually so awful that they leave. Anyone else experimented with this? Steve swears by it. I myself don't live on as big a piece of property as he does, so I don't know if my homestead is large enough for me and a few gallons of "aged" urine, but if it works and it poses no risk to the animals, I just might be willing.
T.G.
T.G.