Have I Mentioned My Ant Problem?
Written by Melissa on 11:42 AM
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Thursday, August 17, 2006
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12 Comments:
You could try putting each one in a plastic garbage bag (or even double-bag them) and sealing them. Or, hang them on a rope.
There's a product you can get at nurseries called Tanglefoot which is a tube of paste you could then apply to the rope so the ants couldn't climb down the rope.
I have a feeling that leaving food on the fountain will lead to other difficulties. :)
What problems do you foresee? It shouldn't rain for a few more months and rats can't climb the fountain.I don't have any bigger pests that I'm aware of.
Hehehe, i do the same with the cat food!
I had problems w/ ants when I lived in Phoenix!!! I hated them. The ants here don't seem to get into the pet food, they just grow wings and start flying around!? They weren't too bad this year for some reason.
Good idea w/ the water.
Possible problems: squirrels and cats, both of which can jump well; some rats also can jump surprisingly well; gust of wind that could topple sack.
Madwag: Winged ants, or termites?
Michelle, desperate times call for desperate measures. I'm glad that I'm not alone.
Madwag, I think that Paul is right. Those sound like termites. I have those too. They may be eating my house, but at least they stay out of the dog food.
Paul, I hadn't thought of squirrels. So far they haven't bothered it. The bags are so heavy that I think I'm okay with wind problems for now. That may change in October when the Santa Anas start.
Ants have three main sections to their bodies, termites have two.
Ant antennae are bent like an arm with an elbow, termite antennae don't have that sharp bend.
Wow, Dave. How do you know this stuff? My eyes aren't good enough to see ant antennas, but for now on, I will try to count body sections. By the way, do ants ever have wings or is that a for sure sign that it's a termite?
Is THAT what those are?? I thought we just had some morphed ants.
I know this stuff because when I don't know something, I Google it. I love, love, LOVE search engines. :)
I know about Tanglefoot because ants used to get in my hummingbird feeders and in my cherry tree. Tanglefoot stopped them in both instances. I just asked the nurseryman what to do.
I learned about ants and termites the first time I saw ants flying near the house. Scared me. Thought they were termites.
I believe it's the queen and the male ants (a colony usually has one queen and the workers are all non-mating females) that get wings. The males find a queen, mate, and die, if I recall. The queen loses her wings. I read about ants in high school.
I wish my head wasn't filled with so much trivia. Makes me wonder what I could do if I had more room for more important stuff. :)
Lisa, hopefully you just have flying ants. Start counting body sections. :)
Dave, I never knew there was such a thing as flying ants. I just assumed that I have termites. I probably do have termites, but now there's hope that it's only ants.
I believe that brains expand to meet the amount of info that you want them to absorb. You're not crowding out important info, but exercising and growing your brain and it's connections. Have you ever tried out for Jeopardy? :)
Down on the Snake River where we fish a lot, there is a yearly outbreak of flying ants. Unfortunately for us, this provides the fish with full bellies. We've seen dead ants lining the rivers edge up to six inches thick. It's amazing how many there are.
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