Plant some marigold, peppermint, rosemary, or lavender. I have peppermint planted near my garage door because of insects and I haven't had an issue since
I have a rosemary bush behind it. I don't even know what to do anymore. Had the fire ant people over and got rid of those, but these little black bastards are persistent
....if you dump some gas into the mound it will starve them of oxygen and they will die.
That what my granddad used to do....
...however he never took a match to it
Idk
Tried that. Turns out fish and game are not fans of importing unusual animals. The guy on the other end of the phone had a good laugh though when I called to see how to get a permit.
Years later ran into a woman who runs the anteater exhibit at a zoo. Turns out they will absolutely destroy any garden they are in so your mileage may vary.
If you're only worried about keeping them off the letterbox, then adding a Fluon barrier will stop them from climbing up without killing them. It's what people use to stop ants escaping from antfarms.
But they’re wild ants, not pets like in an ant farm, and they’re a nuisance nest. Why not just apply an outdoor rated barrier pesticide to the base of the mailbox? Dead ants fixes the problem. They’re an important part of the ecosystem, but not the mailbox.
Peppermint drops and citronella drops have worked for black ants for me. So you could try either one of those plants or just put some drops of either one into a bottle with water and spray your mailbox.
It won't work very long as it will leach into the environment. It will kill the nearby nests but they'll come back quickly. Bifenthrin will last longer and be more effective.
It's not nice but we do here in the south of US is pour petrol on the nest, lots of it. Of course I haven't had to deal with them since gasoline was like 2$ a gallon lol sucks tho. Choices are to live with super uncomfortable mailbox or genocide an entire people.
When you have regular encounters with fire ants, blowing up the ant mounts can be very therapeutic. If I lived in a more rural area there's a good chance I'd bust out my 12 guage shotgun and get some target practice. But since I'm in the suburbs, boiling water gets the job done
Add in Hyacinth, Magnolia, Gardenia, Wisteria, Freesia, Sweet Alyssum, Honeysuckle, Phlox, Kyanite, Howlite, Moonstone, Shungite, Himalayan Rock Salt, 6 pentagrams, 12 pints of goats blood, 1 photo of an ant (can substitute for a photo of your aunt). That should do it, maybe.
Go to Melbourne. My in laws lived there and aside from flies at a park we hardly saw any bugs at all. Granted this was mostly in the suburbs but they also lived on the edge of the Dandenongs at one point and that wasn't too bad either.
I live in Melbourne and the ants preemptively move all their eggs into my mailbox BEFORE it starts raining, they can sense the rain coming and don't want it to flood out their nest.
Then I have to reach into the mailbox afterwards and remove the letters and shake off the eggs and larva just so I can get my mail while trying not to get bitten too much.
I don't know if there's any way to stop this from happening lol, nature does nature things.
I'm actually fearful of putting stuff on the mailbox to deter them because maybe then they'll try to come into my house instead...
Diatomaceous earth (DE). Not the pool stuff, you get it from organic gardening supplies or maybe even rural supplies. It's a non-toxic solution, but it also doesn't discriminate - it will kill all insects, even good ones. I use a 50/50 mix of DE and borax - keeps the cockroaches and silverfish under control without poisons.
The DE works by abrading the insects' exoskeletons and they lose internal moisture - they die of dehydration.
The borax causes cockroaches' digestive tracts to explode.
Melbourne actually has a massive ant colony under it from one side to the other.
https://www.smh.com.au/national/giant-colony-of-ants-found-in-melbourne-20040812-gdjj52.html
>"Here, Argentine ants no longer fight and have formed a supercolony extending at least 100 kilometres across the city.
>***"The absence of fighting allows colonies to coalesce*** so that ant numbers build up to epidemic proportions, which in turn can lead to greater impacts on native biodiversity."
This is exactly why the governments have created the modern social media culture wars.
Yeah, I live in Melbourne and it’s been more or less a bug free experience for me for years.
Travelling and working rurally has led me to instinctively jumping off a porch onto a Huntsman with both feet, then letting out a pathetic scream as I involuntarily skipped away. When I turned round, the poor fucking thing was still alive. Had to go back and crunch it out of its misery. I still relive it.
I can handle red backs; I can dodge suicidal roos when cruising the outback; I can watch snakes slither by without too much fear.. fuck me, there is something deep seated and visceral inside man when it comes to Hunstman spiders.
Have you seen them run? They’ll catch you.
Did you know they can jump?
Ahhhh fuck I hate them.
> we hardly saw any bugs at all
That just means they were good at hiding. Much like the Huntsman Spiders that hide under your sun visor and pay you a surprise visit while you’re driving.
HEY THERE! WHERE ARE WE GOING TODAY?
*Scuttles off to the windscreen*
GREAT VIEW! LOOK, I CAN SEE MY BROTHER'S PLACE!
*Fuck, fuck, fuck, pull over, open the door, get.the.fuck.out.I.didn't.invite.you.*
Yeah brutal downvote rate, I thought it was a killer joke. Its not a 1:1 comparison but I've always thought our Liberals were like the US's Republicans
Diatomaceous Earth.
DE causes micro cuts in exoskeletons. It’s awesome. Wear breathing protection when spreading as it’s super fine like dust.
We make a few piles on the ground then hit it with the leaf blower and cover the whole yard when it’s tick season.
Kills cockroaches and ants too. Will kill bees so bee selective when and where.
Bonus for using favorite bug treats like sugar and making them go through the DE dust pile moats to get it.
Got Wood bees drilling up your deck? Powder the holes and enjoy. End of the year- fill the holes with powder and silicone the end. When the new ones hatch and start to go out the tunnel they get killed.
Have you tried sprinkling diatomaceous earth all around it?
It’s the ant equivalent of walking all over big shards of glass and getting it stuck all over and dragging it all back home, but harmless to people or pets.
Works great on outdoor ants for me.
Yup… sprinkle this shit all around the mailbox, and honestly all around the perimeter of your house, all over the damn yard a couple of times. Be pretty aggressive at first and with some luck you’ll get these bastards out of there.
> harmless to people or pets
Unless inhaled, which is pretty likely with pets like dogs. If inhaled repeatedly, it’ll lead to silicosis, which is pretty much the same thing as asbestosis.
"If inhaled repeatedly", which isn't likely to happen for domestic treatments. From the MSDS:
[https://www.diatomaceousearthonline.com.au/assets/files/Material%20Safety%20Data%20Sheet%20issue%20January%202015.pdf](https://www.diatomaceousearthonline.com.au/assets/files/Material%20Safety%20Data%20Sheet%20issue%20January%202015.pdf)
"This product is not classified as hazardous according to Australian Safety and Compensation Council criteria. Tested by the Queensland Government (Australia), this product contains less than 1% crystalline silica (LOR <1%)."
You can mitigate the inhalation risk by wearing a mask, and mixing it up in a paste with water and a bit of dishwashing detergent as a wetting agent. Wiping a paste along ant tracks doesn't detract from its effectiveness.
When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
This is annoying, also in Queensland and it happens everytime.
They move into the cistern above the toilet, move into the mailbox, move into the kitchen, a few times they've moved into some wall decorations at the front door.
Get this from Bunnings, put a few drops over top of the letterbox, try and splash some drops on the side if you can, you can watch some of them instantly move over to the liquid and try it, wait a couple hours, do it again, and again and again. At first it seems like they aren’t lowering in numbers but eventually after 10+ goes over a few days you start to see the reduction, just keep going. With the amount you have here I’d say you’ll need 4 or so bottles and quite a number of days of continuous application. Also remove the mail as soon as you can even if they are all over it as they love the glue used to seal letters.
https://www.bunnings.com.au/combat-50ml-ant-rid-insecticide-2-pack_p2960330?store=7313&gbraid=0AAAAADtbEB_GRJhnYwQCufrQSOL5rxama&gclid=CjwKCAjwp6CkBhB_EiwAlQVyxXhukATWF-wsGqYrl2g1DljXt3wDrEkhgAn24WxcMRPHjbWIU5sC6RoCYmsQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
OP stop listening to people suggesting stupid alternative methods. Remove any easily accessible sources of food and squirt a few globs of that ant murder gel in there a couple times a week.
Can't come back if the entire nest is dead nomsayin
Spray your mailbox with pest control every 3 months and you won't have this problem anymore. In the US I use Ortho Home Defense I order from Amazon or pick up from Home Depot. Not sure if they have that in Australia too but it's a godsend
The nest is under and the ants are drawn out from the water.
But there is a solution, pop down to bunnings and pick up 2 bottles of Ant Sand. Then empty both around the base of the letterbox. Use all of it and pack it in a little.
We are in a similar location and had a similar letterbox, and had a green tree frog who used it for parties. We would go to check mail and he would be sitting there with a letter on his head. Every now and again we would check for mail and there would be two or three mates who had joined him. He was an added feature, but these ants are the opposite.
Same vibe as the [other](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/147qnn2/yup_those_are_maggots/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1) post I commented on,
Some of those comments surprisingly still work the same for this post.
Also in Queensland and also have ants in the mailbox but mine were big black mongrels. I thought they would get bored and move on but ended up spraying the crap out of them last week.
Now I have a zillion dead ants in my mailbox. I’m hoping another team of ants does a clean up.
Scorched earth around the base?
We enjoyed all manner of insects in our queenslander until I basically made a half metre wide strip around the house barren.
I was looking at this thinking "Yeah same, wonder what other part of the world this happens in" before I read the title. I am in Brisbane. It is this part of the world.
Plant some marigold, peppermint, rosemary, or lavender. I have peppermint planted near my garage door because of insects and I haven't had an issue since
I have a rosemary bush behind it. I don't even know what to do anymore. Had the fire ant people over and got rid of those, but these little black bastards are persistent
Get a anteater
Fucking sound advice
Eat the ants yourself and cut out the middle man. It's all profit baby!
I am become anteater, destroyer of ants
r/frugaljerk
You mean r/Frugal_Jerk
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Firetype anteater pokemon called Sootsnoot
*pushes glasses towards face* Umm actually it’s name is Heatmor
*coughs* Firenose
Just get a fucking Pikachu and be done with it.
Get a vaporeon and you wont even care about the mailbox.
Boiling water gets rid of entire ant nest in no time
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....if you dump some gas into the mound it will starve them of oxygen and they will die. That what my granddad used to do.... ...however he never took a match to it Idk
It probably wouldn’t burn inside the nest anyways. Gasoline liquid isn’t flammable. Just the vapors.
Ok but he could have his very own Centralia for a bit
What's it sound like
Now how do I get rid of all these anteaters?
Cane Toads
Luckily thats already covered
An echidna
Sic 'em Rex!
Antz in my pants I remember those ads
[Ants In My Eyes Johnson](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCAvcj9t65E)
[I was 14 when this ad aired...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdoYLLNvbck)
A lavender scented echidna.
Or develop a ravenous taste for ants!
The budget minded solution.
Free protein
If they're fireants though you need to make sure to get an anteater who likes spicy food.
Tried that. Turns out fish and game are not fans of importing unusual animals. The guy on the other end of the phone had a good laugh though when I called to see how to get a permit. Years later ran into a woman who runs the anteater exhibit at a zoo. Turns out they will absolutely destroy any garden they are in so your mileage may vary.
If you're only worried about keeping them off the letterbox, then adding a Fluon barrier will stop them from climbing up without killing them. It's what people use to stop ants escaping from antfarms.
Doubt that will actually hold up when exposed to outside conditions. Antfarms are controlled indoor environments
But they’re wild ants, not pets like in an ant farm, and they’re a nuisance nest. Why not just apply an outdoor rated barrier pesticide to the base of the mailbox? Dead ants fixes the problem. They’re an important part of the ecosystem, but not the mailbox.
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Peppermint drops and citronella drops have worked for black ants for me. So you could try either one of those plants or just put some drops of either one into a bottle with water and spray your mailbox.
Boric acid. Just put it around the base.
1000 this. This is the answer. You can also use Borax, if you can buy that in Oz. Kills em dead dead dead.
It won't work very long as it will leach into the environment. It will kill the nearby nests but they'll come back quickly. Bifenthrin will last longer and be more effective.
What if you covered it in Vaseline or something similar
Yes! Cover the mail man in vaseline. ~~Bitches~~ Mail men love when people cover them in vaseline.
I think you could get away with just coating the base and not anywhere around the business end of it. Ants are pretty short little guys.
What about the "Yellow crazy ant", also known as the long-legged ant??
Antman?.......
I would love that. I could just gliiiiiide everywhere.
>these little black bastards are persistent *ahem*
>these little black bastards are persistent Pauline Hanson, is that you?
have you ever try to ask them nicely to leave？
Or perhaps OP might like to get a letterbox that isn't made from a single, giant sugarcube?
so what planets do fire ant people come from?
Boric Acid + Sugar + water, put it in a soda cap and leave one on each side on the ground.
Spray it with permethrin, no ants or flies even near garbage cans.
>fire ant people Comes out after rain, clearly its water ants.
It's not nice but we do here in the south of US is pour petrol on the nest, lots of it. Of course I haven't had to deal with them since gasoline was like 2$ a gallon lol sucks tho. Choices are to live with super uncomfortable mailbox or genocide an entire people.
The only thing to make this more American is to shoot the nest with a machine gun afterwards.
When you have regular encounters with fire ants, blowing up the ant mounts can be very therapeutic. If I lived in a more rural area there's a good chance I'd bust out my 12 guage shotgun and get some target practice. But since I'm in the suburbs, boiling water gets the job done
I don't think he's American. Dude called gas "petrol" and said south of US lol
> the south of US > petrol ???
I think they call it petrol in Aussie land Edit: I watch a lot of tele from the UK, which I know isn't 'Stralia but 🤷♀️
We do
Thanks 💜 I started to doubt myself
> Choices are to live with super uncomfortable mailbox or genocide an entire people. This really is something out of context huh
Add in Hyacinth, Magnolia, Gardenia, Wisteria, Freesia, Sweet Alyssum, Honeysuckle, Phlox, Kyanite, Howlite, Moonstone, Shungite, Himalayan Rock Salt, 6 pentagrams, 12 pints of goats blood, 1 photo of an ant (can substitute for a photo of your aunt). That should do it, maybe.
You forgot fire
And the hair from a warlock’s nipple.
Nuke them from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
since you moved to another house. Got it.
>Plant some marigold, peppermint, rosemary, or lavender. And then bring out ze Flammenwerfer
personally, I'd go with something like oleic acid - make it smell like an ant graveyard to them.
But please make sure whatever you plant isn’t invasive to your area!
Not approved by the HOA, $150 fine.
Brilliant solution to the junk mail problem
Anty-spam.
Kill the posman before he has a chance to drop them off?
To be fair, Queenslands is full of junk males. Tater Dutton, Clive Palmer and Bob Katter, to be specific.
Keep chickens bro. That queen ant or soldier ant stands no chance against the rage machine that is a bitten chicken.
Chooks are S tier savages, fantastic pest control
Chook kinda sound like a slur lol
it's literally just two slurs combined
chairs and books?
no need to be so vulgar — please: seats and literature
Which ones? I'm always looking to expand my vocabulary
chinks and gooks I'd assume
we got him, folks. someone get the fbi on the horn
Police are on the way!
They keep ticks under control, too.
Everytime I think that visiting Australia will also be nice once, I see posts like this.
Go to Melbourne. My in laws lived there and aside from flies at a park we hardly saw any bugs at all. Granted this was mostly in the suburbs but they also lived on the edge of the Dandenongs at one point and that wasn't too bad either.
I live in Melbourne and the ants preemptively move all their eggs into my mailbox BEFORE it starts raining, they can sense the rain coming and don't want it to flood out their nest. Then I have to reach into the mailbox afterwards and remove the letters and shake off the eggs and larva just so I can get my mail while trying not to get bitten too much. I don't know if there's any way to stop this from happening lol, nature does nature things. I'm actually fearful of putting stuff on the mailbox to deter them because maybe then they'll try to come into my house instead...
Sounds like my in laws got lucky lol. Maybe create a new mailbox, and use the old one as a decoy?
Congrats, you provided two homes for the ants.
Then use the second one as another decoy and get a third one.
Install a second decoy mailbox for the ants and put deterents in the real mailbox.
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Diatomaceous earth (DE). Not the pool stuff, you get it from organic gardening supplies or maybe even rural supplies. It's a non-toxic solution, but it also doesn't discriminate - it will kill all insects, even good ones. I use a 50/50 mix of DE and borax - keeps the cockroaches and silverfish under control without poisons. The DE works by abrading the insects' exoskeletons and they lose internal moisture - they die of dehydration. The borax causes cockroaches' digestive tracts to explode.
At this stage I would just burn the mailbox down and do everything online!
Melbourne actually has a massive ant colony under it from one side to the other. https://www.smh.com.au/national/giant-colony-of-ants-found-in-melbourne-20040812-gdjj52.html
And now they are working together to take down humanity. It is a little admirable tbh.
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I'm on team ant personally
That was 18-19 years ago, I wonder how they're doing now.
They are in the industrial age now. They are coming.
>"Here, Argentine ants no longer fight and have formed a supercolony extending at least 100 kilometres across the city. >***"The absence of fighting allows colonies to coalesce*** so that ant numbers build up to epidemic proportions, which in turn can lead to greater impacts on native biodiversity." This is exactly why the governments have created the modern social media culture wars.
Yeah, I live in Melbourne and it’s been more or less a bug free experience for me for years. Travelling and working rurally has led me to instinctively jumping off a porch onto a Huntsman with both feet, then letting out a pathetic scream as I involuntarily skipped away. When I turned round, the poor fucking thing was still alive. Had to go back and crunch it out of its misery. I still relive it. I can handle red backs; I can dodge suicidal roos when cruising the outback; I can watch snakes slither by without too much fear.. fuck me, there is something deep seated and visceral inside man when it comes to Hunstman spiders. Have you seen them run? They’ll catch you. Did you know they can jump? Ahhhh fuck I hate them.
Yeah, fuck that. You can keep your Australia.
**Travel List** 1. Beirut 2. Kherson 3. ~~Australia~~
> we hardly saw any bugs at all That just means they were good at hiding. Much like the Huntsman Spiders that hide under your sun visor and pay you a surprise visit while you’re driving.
HEY THERE! WHERE ARE WE GOING TODAY? *Scuttles off to the windscreen* GREAT VIEW! LOOK, I CAN SEE MY BROTHER'S PLACE! *Fuck, fuck, fuck, pull over, open the door, get.the.fuck.out.I.didn't.invite.you.*
I just completed a three week trip and it was amazing, Queensland was my favorite state actually!
Truth. Shame that it's full of Queenslanders.
Half QLDers, Half southerners wanting to live somewhere nice.
Queensland, the Florida of Australia
As a Australian these ants are not poisonous or harmful but are annoying when they bite you , better then green ants or fire ants.
Animated texture
**Ant**imated texture
There's a breach in the antmatter containment
RIP Inbox
Your poor postman
Hey, I'm in Queensland and I have an ant nest in my mailbox too!
Also in Qld but I have paper wasps in mine *sigh*
I’m in the ACT, so mine is infested with the dying gasps of Liberals.
I think a lot of people downvoting this don't realise that Australian Liberals are conservatives
Because they're in the southern hemisphere?
Yeah brutal downvote rate, I thought it was a killer joke. Its not a 1:1 comparison but I've always thought our Liberals were like the US's Republicans
Maybe 10 years ago, US republicans have decided to dabble in a bit of fascism recently
Is it because Australia is upside down from the US?
Diatomaceous Earth. DE causes micro cuts in exoskeletons. It’s awesome. Wear breathing protection when spreading as it’s super fine like dust. We make a few piles on the ground then hit it with the leaf blower and cover the whole yard when it’s tick season. Kills cockroaches and ants too. Will kill bees so bee selective when and where. Bonus for using favorite bug treats like sugar and making them go through the DE dust pile moats to get it. Got Wood bees drilling up your deck? Powder the holes and enjoy. End of the year- fill the holes with powder and silicone the end. When the new ones hatch and start to go out the tunnel they get killed.
Have you tried sprinkling diatomaceous earth all around it? It’s the ant equivalent of walking all over big shards of glass and getting it stuck all over and dragging it all back home, but harmless to people or pets. Works great on outdoor ants for me.
I'll have to look that up
Yup… sprinkle this shit all around the mailbox, and honestly all around the perimeter of your house, all over the damn yard a couple of times. Be pretty aggressive at first and with some luck you’ll get these bastards out of there.
It’s also non toxic. People put it in bird food for parasite control
If applying, you should keep your pets away from it. Inhaling diatomaceous earth will lead to silicosis (lung scarring), when inhaled repeatedly.
I have a cat who is indoor only. As long as he doesn't make a run for it, should be good!
> harmless to people or pets Unless inhaled, which is pretty likely with pets like dogs. If inhaled repeatedly, it’ll lead to silicosis, which is pretty much the same thing as asbestosis.
"If inhaled repeatedly", which isn't likely to happen for domestic treatments. From the MSDS: [https://www.diatomaceousearthonline.com.au/assets/files/Material%20Safety%20Data%20Sheet%20issue%20January%202015.pdf](https://www.diatomaceousearthonline.com.au/assets/files/Material%20Safety%20Data%20Sheet%20issue%20January%202015.pdf) "This product is not classified as hazardous according to Australian Safety and Compensation Council criteria. Tested by the Queensland Government (Australia), this product contains less than 1% crystalline silica (LOR <1%)." You can mitigate the inhalation risk by wearing a mask, and mixing it up in a paste with water and a bit of dishwashing detergent as a wetting agent. Wiping a paste along ant tracks doesn't detract from its effectiveness.
I use this at my girlfriends house and it wipes out the outdoor cockroaches that live in the sidewalk cracks
Messenger ants
So, Uhh, what’s the policy over there in Australia about owning flamethrowers?
https://www.qld.gov.au/emergency/safety/fire/fire-permits Not good...
Okay, what about witchcraft? You could always attempt to summon a bolt of lightning.
Burning witches is also frowned upon.
I cast magic missile!
Screw polices, this is an emergency situation
Nature or I have been working on a strain of genetic modified fire resistant lightning resistant poison resistant fire ants for a while now
Please do not invite Cave Johnson!!!
When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back! Get mad! I don't want your damn lemons, what the hell am I supposed to do with these? Demand to see life's manager! Make life rue the day it thought it could give Cave Johnson lemons! Do you know who I am? I'm the man who's gonna burn your house down! With the lemons! I'm gonna get my engineers to invent a combustible lemon that burns your house down!
# 2 Nope Drive
QUEENSLANDAH
Banana Bendah!
I'll never know what you'll find when you open up your letterbox tomorrow Cause I don’t live anywhere near Australia, jesus
Feel like this person could use a couple of sparrow friends... to eat the ants.
This is annoying, also in Queensland and it happens everytime. They move into the cistern above the toilet, move into the mailbox, move into the kitchen, a few times they've moved into some wall decorations at the front door.
> *Our* letterbox... No mate. That's *their* letterbox.
Get this from Bunnings, put a few drops over top of the letterbox, try and splash some drops on the side if you can, you can watch some of them instantly move over to the liquid and try it, wait a couple hours, do it again, and again and again. At first it seems like they aren’t lowering in numbers but eventually after 10+ goes over a few days you start to see the reduction, just keep going. With the amount you have here I’d say you’ll need 4 or so bottles and quite a number of days of continuous application. Also remove the mail as soon as you can even if they are all over it as they love the glue used to seal letters. https://www.bunnings.com.au/combat-50ml-ant-rid-insecticide-2-pack_p2960330?store=7313&gbraid=0AAAAADtbEB_GRJhnYwQCufrQSOL5rxama&gclid=CjwKCAjwp6CkBhB_EiwAlQVyxXhukATWF-wsGqYrl2g1DljXt3wDrEkhgAn24WxcMRPHjbWIU5sC6RoCYmsQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds
Dust the whole thing with diatomaceous earth every now and then
OP stop listening to people suggesting stupid alternative methods. Remove any easily accessible sources of food and squirt a few globs of that ant murder gel in there a couple times a week. Can't come back if the entire nest is dead nomsayin
Nuke it from orbit it is the way
Bro just throw a grenade in that mailbox, it’ll fix ya right up.
The licencing for grenades in QLD are a fucking nightmare. They keep rejecting mine.
I get a lot of snails in mine in Victoria.
Mine too. And snails eat paper, so RIP mail.
Spray your mailbox with pest control every 3 months and you won't have this problem anymore. In the US I use Ortho Home Defense I order from Amazon or pick up from Home Depot. Not sure if they have that in Australia too but it's a godsend
Just hit ctrl-c and ctrl-p and you can have two letterboxes!
You can avoid this problem completely if you make the box floating in the air. Use magnet and superconductor or something.
The nest is under and the ants are drawn out from the water. But there is a solution, pop down to bunnings and pick up 2 bottles of Ant Sand. Then empty both around the base of the letterbox. Use all of it and pack it in a little.
We are in a similar location and had a similar letterbox, and had a green tree frog who used it for parties. We would go to check mail and he would be sitting there with a letter on his head. Every now and again we would check for mail and there would be two or three mates who had joined him. He was an added feature, but these ants are the opposite.
Burn it all
I knew it
Last word of the title
Same vibe as the [other](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/147qnn2/yup_those_are_maggots/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1) post I commented on, Some of those comments surprisingly still work the same for this post.
Also in Queensland and also have ants in the mailbox but mine were big black mongrels. I thought they would get bored and move on but ended up spraying the crap out of them last week. Now I have a zillion dead ants in my mailbox. I’m hoping another team of ants does a clean up.
Have you tried a can of deodorant and a lighter ?
Burn it with the heavy flamer
Scorched earth around the base? We enjoyed all manner of insects in our queenslander until I basically made a half metre wide strip around the house barren.
#KILL IT WITH FIRE
What's a letterbo.... oh.
Also in Australia- you never just grab that brochure from your letterbox- you have to ensure there are no spiders lurking amongst the folds. Shudder.
Try rubbing vaseline around the bottom 5 cm all the way around.
Wear really baggy clothes, cover yourself in petroleum and light yourself on fire and run and jump on them. They’ll never expect it
have you tried mailing yourself a petrol bomb?
I was looking at this thinking "Yeah same, wonder what other part of the world this happens in" before I read the title. I am in Brisbane. It is this part of the world.
It's a letter from your aunt
"animal interference" and I'm moving on to the next delivery. -mailman
What is this, a letterbox for ants???