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Posted by on April 24, 2008, 10:33 am
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 08:50:31 -0400, "Stormin Mormon"
>Years ago, I had good results with liquid ant bait from www.gardensalive.com
>but this year, there are much smaller ants. And less interested in the blue
>liquid. Not sure what to do.
Are they sweet-eating?
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Posted by Stormin Mormon on April 24, 2008, 9:10 pm
That's likely so. They seem to like my kitchen counter.
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>but this year, there are much smaller ants. And less interested in the blue
>liquid. Not sure what to do.
Are they sweet-eating?
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Posted by Norminn on April 24, 2008, 12:46 pm
Stormin Mormon wrote:
>Years ago, I had good results with liquid ant bait from www.gardensalive.com
>but this year, there are much smaller ants. And less interested in the blue
>liquid. Not sure what to do.
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I haven't seen Terro brand in quite a while, but have gotten the same
sort of product at HD, very small
bottle. Is is basic sugar and boric acid. For grease-eating ants, my
bottles suggests adding a drop of
cooking oil to the drop of bait. A drop of bait on a nice buttery
cookie crumb works fine. Tastes vary - I
think the adults avoid sugar but the kids go for it :o) Really.
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Posted by on April 24, 2008, 9:19 pm
wrote:
> For grease-eating ants, my
>bottles suggests adding a drop of
>cooking oil to the drop of bait. A drop of bait on a nice buttery
>cookie crumb works fine. Tastes vary - I
>think the adults avoid sugar but the kids go for it :o) Really.
I have had very good luck making baits with whatever I see them
eating, 12 parts food, one part boric acid. Those ants dissapear and
the ones who come back don't eat that food. They got so specific they
would only eat Purina the dog had in his mouth (tasted the saliva I
guess) Then I baited that. Now I see an ant now and then but they
aren't eating anything.
We do have a particularly nasty ant here in Florida (the white foot
guys) that can throw multiple queens and when one queen dies there is
another one waiting to take over. We even have some ants that will
take in workers from another colony if their queen is dead.
I am sure ants will be feasting on the last mammal's bones when our
time is up.
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Posted by Oren on April 24, 2008, 10:11 pm
On Thu, 24 Apr 2008 21:19:55 -0400, gfretwell@aol.com wrote:
>They got so specific they
>would only eat Purina the dog had in his mouth (tasted the saliva I
>guess) Then I baited that. Now I see an ant now and then but they
>aren't eating anything.
Ants do the damndest things. The dog is in charge.
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