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Ant Safe Gloves

Started By M_Ants , Aug 2 2023 8:19 AM

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#1 Offline M_Ants - Posted August 2 2023 - 8:19 AM

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Looking for some ant safe gloves to use to handle feeders, ant equipment etc. I believe my dogs flea medicine has killed my ants when I forgot to wash my hands so I want to use gloves from now on.

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Crematogaster sp.

Pogonomyrmex cf cali and rugosus

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#2 Offline Full_Frontal_Yeti - Posted August 2 2023 - 8:44 AM

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Looking for some ant safe gloves to use to handle feeders, ant equipment etc. I believe my dogs flea medicine has killed my ants when I forgot to wash my hands so I want to use gloves from now on.

If you have the stuff on your hands already, and you handle the gloves to put them on you could be transfering some of it to the outsdie of the gloves and so still to the ants.
I'd say the only full proof method is to alwasy wash hands throughly first if you might have been in contact with any harmful to them substacnes.

I do use these gloves when working in my pogonomyrmex occidentalis outworld, as there are too many of them now, i can't reach in to do food/water without getting some on me.
And as pogonomyrmex occidentalis are very poor climbers they can't get a good grip on this form of slicker plastic(it's like the cheap plastic sandwich baggies), falling off with a light shake/brush.