Ant infestation!!

[Fr. Frank]

For some reason, most bug bombs won't kill all the ants. Black Flag makes one that produces a gas instead of a mist that works really well. The canister has to be placed into its own cup with water in it to prevent it starting a fire, though. When I had ants in my 25 Mako, I put two below decks: one in the battery well/bilge pump well and one in the foredeck storage area.

It seems that bugs will try to get away from that gas. Without knowing it I also had an infestation of huge North American cockroaches. When I took the cover off the boat I had what seemed like tens of thousands of dead ants on the deck, and hundreds of dead roaches.

I was so disturbed by that I sold the boat a week later, and never used it again. I'm terrified of North American cockroaches. I have literally have a phobia of those roaches. Palmetto bugs don't bother me, Segmented roaches don't bother me, not do German roaches. I don't like them, but no big deal. But North American roaches, (shudder).