# Vacuuming Up Ants

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vacuuming-up-ants/793024>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 7, 2017, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vacuuming-up-ants/793024 "2017-08-07T18:37:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Asuka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/dec6dc/32.png) [@Asuka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asuka)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vacuuming-up-ants/793024/21 "2017-08-11T23:01:56Z")

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Whenever I had ant problems in my carpeted living room I would spray the most traveled sections of the carpet with antpoison and then vacuum said sections up along with the rest, and I would never see the ants for the rest of the year.

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