So you want to know about ants?
Three years ago we took our trailer down to Las Vagas in Augustand were staying in one of the better RV parks just off the strip It was 115 degrees the evening we arrived. Spent a couple of hours looking around with the kids ( 2 girls , 16 and 14 at that time) and then went back to the trailer to sleep.
About 1AM the girls wake us up that there is a ant in the trailer and they need me to kill it. With the appropriate amount of grumbling, I get up and smash it with my finger. I had just gone back to sleep when they get me up to kill another. Took care of it, this time my wife decides to sit up awhile with the kids. Shortly thereafter, she wakes me up that there are ants coming in around the main door and we need to check it out. Now it's about 2AM, so my wife and I go outside to check on the trailer, she's wearing shorts and a teashirt and I'm just wearing shorts.
It's covered almost black with ants, they were crawling up the water hose and then on up to the top to get the water coming off the air conditioner. About that time we hear the trailer door slam, it's the girls checking out what we were doing.
Unless you unlock it, my trailer door will lock behind you when you leave. Here we all are standing outside my trailer covered in ants, in Las Vagas at 2AM and it's still 100 degrees and we ARE LOCKED OUT. The two dogs inside the trailer are being no help at all.
We walked around to the main office, of course everything is locked up, but a security guard passed by and let us in to make a phone call. Well he let my wife in, I couldn't go in because I wasn't wearing a shirt. Nice to know they enforce dress codes at 2AM in Vagas.
My wife called AAA, we of course didn't have our card on us but evidently getting locked out of your trailer when you are undressed is fairly common in that area.
Two hours later, a lock-smith get in. The walls are covered in ants.
That's when we found out that in a pinch, Windex makes a good ant killer; doesn't have any staying power but it kills what it hits. Second, if you take Clorox and spread it around your tire and jacks, the ants won't cross it. and third; keep your hose off the ground.
I went to sleep for two hours, we packed up and went north to Reno. Took two days to get rid of all the ants, my wife and kids refused to stay in the trailer and I had to get them a hotel room. So it was just me and the dogs for two days in Reno. There was a silver lining afterall.