Ants!

[Penguin]

I got ants! What's the best way to get rid of them?

[Turd_Ferguson]

Vinegar. YWIA.

[My Opinion Matters]

Sugar. Lots of sugar.

They hate the stuff.

[Harry Beanbag]

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/boley011/architecture/flamethrower.jpg

[AlbqSooner]

Sprinkle some Chlordane dust on the ant hill is the answer. Where to Find Chlrodane is the question.

[Whet]

borate, or is it Borat?

[RacerX]

http://www.vibrationdata.com/Resources/anteater1.jpg

[Penguin]

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/boley011/architecture/flamethrower.jpg


Dude, that looks like a painful way to get rid of my genital ants.

[Turd_Ferguson]

Dude, that looks like a painful way to get rid of my genital ants.Heh. Why didn't you say genital ants. Shave one side, set the other half on fire and stab'm with an ice pick when they come runn'n out.

[olevetonahill]

Call the ASPCA.

[shaun4411]

**** on them

[Rogue]

Ants!

SzedJ5f39Ko

[Tulsa_Fireman]

This stuff.

http://www.critterridders.com/viper_lg.jpg

You could kill the neighbors with this stuff.

[Whet]

This stuff.

http://www.critterridders.com/viper_lg.jpg

You could kill the neighbors with this stuff.

If your neighbors are ants!

Cypermethrin is an insecticide used both in agricultural and non-agricultural settings.
Human Health Risk
Dietary Exposure (food only) Refined acute (probabilistic) and chronic dietary exposure assessments were performed in order to determine the dietary (food only) exposure and risk estimates which result from the use of cypermethrin and zeta-cypermethrin in/on all registered crops. Actual residues from USDA PDP
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monitoring data (collected during 1994, 1996, 1999, and 2001), estimated percent crop treated information, and processing factors, where available, were used. For acute exposure, the most highly exposed population subgroup was children 1-2 years old at 6.1% of the aPAD at the 99.9th percentile. For chronic exposure, the most highly exposed population subgroup was children 1-2 years old at 0.2% of the cPAD. Dietary exposures (both acute and chronic) estimates are below the Agency’s level of concern for the general U.S. population and all population subgroups.
Drinking Water Exposure The Estimated Drinking Water Concentrations (EDWCs) for cypermethrin were calculated using PRZM/EXAMS model (Tier II ), based on the highest seasonal application rate (0.6 lb a.i./A on cotton). The estimated acute drinking water concentration in surface water is 1.04 ppb, and the estimated chronic drinking water concentration in surface water is 0.013 ppb. The SCI-GROW model was used to generate the EDWC for groundwater. The groundwater EDWC for both acute and chronic exposures is 0.0036 ppb.
Residential Exposure and Risk Residential handler inhalation risks are below EPA’s level of concern for all non-occupational handler scenarios. No short-term dermal exposures or risks were assessed for residential handlers since no dermal endpoints of concern were identified. EPA does not anticipate that residential handlers would have intermediate- or long-term exposures to cypermethrin or zetacypermethrin.
Therefore, no intermediate- or long-term risks were assessed.
Residential /non-dietary post-application exposure to adults was assessed via the inhalation route, since no effects were observed in the dermal exposure study. Exposure to toddlers was assessed via the inhalation route, and via incidental oral exposure. All of these exposures are considered short term. Although cypermethrin can be used indoors as termiticide, long term exposure due to inhalation is considered negligible, since the vapor pressure for cypermethrin is extremely low. Inhalation risks to both adults and toddlers were below the Agency’s level of concern. Individually, risks from hand to mouth exposure, object to mouth exposure, and incidental soil ingestion were all below EPA’s level of concern.
Aggregate risk An acute aggregate risk assessment was conducted taking into account risk from food and drinking water. EPA calculated the Drinking Water Levels of Comparison (DWLOC, which represents the maximum allowable exposure from drinking water that would still fall below EPA’s level of concern) for all population subgroups. The acute DWLOC for the most highly exposed population subgroup (children 1-2 years old) is 940 ppb, which is much higher than the peak EDWC of 1.04 ppb in surface water and the maximum EDWC for ground water of 0.0036 ppb; therefore, acute aggregate risk estimates associated with exposure to cypermethrin residues in food and water do not exceed EPA’s level of concern.
Short-term aggregate exposure takes into account residential exposure plus average exposure levels to food and water (considered to be a background exposure level). The calculated DWLOC value for children 1-2 years old is 890 ppb and this level is higher than the surface and ground water EDWCs of 0.013 and 0.0036 ppb.
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Chronic aggregate assessment only includes food and water since chronic exposure from residential uses is negligible. The highest exposed population subgroup (children 1-2 years old) has a DWLOC value of 600 ppb, which is greater than the average annual EDWCs of 0.013 ppb for surface water and 0.0036 ppb for ground water. Therefore, chronic aggregate risk does not exceed the Agency’s level of concern.
Cumulative Cypermethrin is a member of the pyrethroid class of pesticides. Although all pyrethroids alter nerve function by modifying the normal biochemistry and physiology of nerve membrane sodium channels, available data shows that there are multiple types of sodium channels and that these compounds may act on different isoforms of the sodium channel and with other ion channels in producing their clinical signs. It is currently unknown whether the pyrethroids as a class have similar effects on all channels or whether modifications of different types of sodium channels would have a cumulative effect. Nor do we have a clear understanding of effects on key downstream neuronal function e.g., nerve excitability, or how these key events interact to produce their compound specific patterns of neurotoxicity. Without such understanding, there is no basis to make a common mechanism of toxicity finding. Therefore, EPA is not currently following a cumulative risk approach based on a common mechanism of toxicity for the pyrethroids because the Agency has determined further study is needed regarding the assumptions of dose additivity and common mechanism(s) of toxicity to appropriately identify a group or subgroups for such an assessment. There is ongoing research by the EPA’s Office of Research and Development and pyrethroid registrants to evaluate the differential biochemical and physiological actions of pyrethroids in mammals. The Agency anticipates the majority of this research to be completed by 2007.
FQPA Safety Factor The Agency determined that the FQPA safety factor should be 1X since there are no residual uncertainties for pre and/or post natal toxicity, and the dietary (food and drinking water) and non-dietary exposure assessments will not underestimate the potential exposures for infants and children. No database uncertainty factor is needed since the toxicity database is complete.
Occupational Risk Short-term, intermediate-term, and long-term risks to occupational handlers are below the Agency’s level of concern with baseline attire (long sleeved shirt, long pants, shoes and socks), as long as wettable powder formulations are packaged in water soluble bags, and chemical resistant gloves are worn for hand-held application methods. Although risks could not be calculated for the one granular product of cypermethrin, risks would be lower than for liquid products which is below EPA’s level of concern with baseline attire.
EPA did not assess occupational postapplication risks since no short- or intermediate-term dermal endpoints were identified and long-term dermal exposures are not expected for any of the registered use patterns. As per the Worker Protection Standard, a restricted-entry interval of 12 hours is required for agricultural uses.

[Tulsa_Fireman]

Residential /non-dietary post-application exposure to adults was assessed via the inhalation route, since no effects were observed in the dermal exposure study. Exposure to toddlers was assessed via the inhalation route, and via incidental oral exposure.

Okay, do they get some lil' hobo toddlers or something? Toddlers living under an I-44 bridge?

Who the hell volunteers their toddlers to breathe POISON!?

[Whet]

what do you mean "volunteer" that would imply they know!

[olevetonahill]

Okay, do they get some lil' hobo toddlers or something? Toddlers living under an I-44 bridge?

Who the hell volunteers their toddlers to breathe POISON!?

I think Ive featured a few Of those Kinda MOMs in a threads the last few days .
Just sayin

[swardboy]

Corn meal....spread it around. They take it to the queen and she explodes when it mixes with the liquid in her body.

Srsly.

[StoopTroup]

Sweet. :D

Is there a YouTube video of that?

[Sooner98]

Corn meal....spread it around. They take it to the queen and she explodes when it mixes with the liquid in her body.

Srsly.

Nice. That queen needs to die as painful a death as possible.

[TheLurker]

http://www.thedom.fr/divers/MaginfyingGlass.jpg
If that doesn't work, try Leningen's technique. http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lvta.html[URL="http: good luck

[Jerk]

I like to spread sevindust around the outside of the house with a spreader...maybe 4 foot wide path of it...and water it in.

It won't hurt your grass or flowers.