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Ants, Lots of Ants Steve 07-24-2006
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Posted by on July 25, 2006, 12:29 am
wrote:

>If you found the larvae you found the nest, though if the maggoty things
>were moving by themselves they were termites, if they were being carried
>by other ants, they were CA in the heart of the nest. There are two
>carpenter ant baits that the pros use that you can find over the web or
>at a do it yourself type pest store. I have used the Advance Granular
>Carpenter Ant Bait and have had success on nests I had no idea where
>they were located at. I myself have not used MAXFORCE CARPENTER ANT BAIT
>GEL, but all that I know who have used it say it works as well as the
>other product.
>--
>Lar

We seem to have a different carpenter ant in Florida. (but we have
lots of different ants than most of the US)
I have had carpenter ants that had satellite nests all over the house
with several dozen to 100 individuals and larvae in each. The mother
ship was in the mulch right outside.. There were not even in a wood
environment, just any convenient cool dark place. I had a nest in a
plastic diskette case

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Posted by Lar on July 25, 2006, 1:11 am
gfretwell@aol.com says...
:) We seem to have a different carpenter ant in Florida. (but we have
:) lots of different ants than most of the US)
:) I have had carpenter ants that had satellite nests all over the house
:) with several dozen to 100 individuals and larvae in each. The mother
:) ship was in the mulch right outside.. There were not even in a wood
:) environment, just any convenient cool dark place. I had a nest in a
:) plastic diskette case
:)
:)
I'm in Texas and the vast majority of carp ant jobs I do have nothing to
with wood at all, much less wet wood. The most common area I find them
in are the hollow tubing in storm windows/door and screens. The oddest
place was in a kitchen, took forever to trail them down and in a cabinet
there was an old wide mouthed jar of home made prunes. It was capped
with a three inch across cork and the ants made the cork their home. At
least nowadays what we have to treat for them makes them, all ants in
general, a non issue any more.
--
Lar

It is said that the early bird gets the worm,
but it is the second mouse that gets the cheese.

Posted by on July 25, 2006, 11:49 am
wrote:

>gfretwell@aol.com says...
>:) We seem to have a different carpenter ant in Florida. (but we have
>:) lots of different ants than most of the US)
>:) I have had carpenter ants that had satellite nests all over the house
>:) with several dozen to 100 individuals and larvae in each. The mother
>:) ship was in the mulch right outside.. There were not even in a wood
>:) environment, just any convenient cool dark place. I had a nest in a
>:) plastic diskette case
>:)
>:)
>I'm in Texas and the vast majority of carp ant jobs I do have nothing to
>with wood at all, much less wet wood. The most common area I find them
>in are the hollow tubing in storm windows/door and screens. The oddest
>place was in a kitchen, took forever to trail them down and in a cabinet
>there was an old wide mouthed jar of home made prunes. It was capped
>with a three inch across cork and the ants made the cork their home. At
>least nowadays what we have to treat for them makes them, all ants in
>general, a non issue any more.

Yep, maybe it's a southern thing. I imagine these are just one more
nasty imported species.
Do you have the white foot ants there? They will turn everything you
think you know about ants on it's head. They use multiple food
streams, eating different foods and shutting one down if baits start
killing the residents. They also seem to have an unlimited number of
queens in waiting so killing the queen is just a minor disruption to
the colony. We also have the multiple queen fire ant colonies here too
that will accept workers from another nest if that one is destroyed.
Ants from the tropics are tough and they can be real hard to get rid
of.
It is strange that the white foot ants have displaced fire ants around
here. Usually this time of year I have dozens of fire ants nests
popping up in the yard. This year I didn't see any.That is a good
news/bad news joke. White foot ants don't bite you but fire ants don't
usually come in the house. I guess white foot ants eat fire ants.

Posted by Lar on July 25, 2006, 2:40 pm
gfretwell@aol.com says...
:) Do you have the white foot ants there? They will turn everything you
:) think you know about ants on it's head. They use multiple food
:) streams, eating different foods and shutting one down if baits start
:) killing the residents. They also seem to have an unlimited number of
:)
:)
I figure it just a matter of time before we start getting calls on
them.... did have a new species show up earlier this year and have now
seen it around Dallas several times this Summer...the Rover Ant...makes
the Little Black Ant look large. If ants are a yearly problem you might
look into having the foundation and entry points treated with Termidor.
Stops all ants from invading from 6 months to a year....hmm can't say
for sure it will stop Pharaoh ants since they are an inside ant, but
then again we rarely see Pharaohs anymore since Max force came on the
market a number of years back.
--
Lar

It is said that the early bird gets the worm,
but it is the second mouse that gets the cheese.

Posted by on July 25, 2006, 4:16 pm
wrote:

>.hmm can't say
>for sure it will stop Pharaoh ants since they are an inside ant, but
>then again we rarely see Pharaohs anymore since Max force came on the
>market a number of years back.
My experience with Pharaohs was when I moved into this house. They
were unstoppable it seemed. I threw everything in the book at them for
2 years.The problem was solved by actually treating the walls. I
punched holes and shot a now illegal persistant into every stud bay on
all the wet walls. That whacked them and knock wood, they have been
gone for 20 years.



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