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Posted October 12 2024 - 2:49 PM
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I've got an ant infestation in my bathroom. They are coming in through the tiny crack under the threshold board. I wonder if filling the crack with silicon will stop them. They are very tiny ants and there are not many of them. They walk in a trail that seems to lead nowhere, and I see only four or five at a time.
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Posted October 12 2024 - 3:45 PM
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Definitely seal the crack.
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Posted October 13 2024 - 7:53 AM
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Definitely seal the crack.
try to repel them with a food they do not like, Example caffeine, and then seal the crack, It is the best non lethal way
Currently keeping:
1x Formica subsericea, (used to be polygynous) 20+ workers
1x Lasius umbratus, (Workers accepted) 25 workers with host brood (I think they are dead now lol)
1x Crematogaster cerasi 4 workers with brood (still growing)
As you watch your ants march, remember: every journey begins with a single step (or queen)-not just towards you, but towards a future woven by diligence and shared dreams - Me
(I lost braincells just to make this quote)
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Posted October 13 2024 - 9:31 AM
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Posted October 15 2024 - 11:59 AM
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Repelling is an urban legend. Seal the crack as your first measure. If the infestation continues, buy some Terro ant gel.
Ok but one time I spilled my mom’s coffee on one of my feeders and I did not wash it properly and they did not touch the maple syrup that they would go crazy for
either it is just my ants or it’s true but it is probably my ants
Currently keeping:
1x Formica subsericea, (used to be polygynous) 20+ workers
1x Lasius umbratus, (Workers accepted) 25 workers with host brood (I think they are dead now lol)
1x Crematogaster cerasi 4 workers with brood (still growing)
As you watch your ants march, remember: every journey begins with a single step (or queen)-not just towards you, but towards a future woven by diligence and shared dreams - Me
(I lost braincells just to make this quote)
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Posted October 15 2024 - 12:06 PM
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Imagine a huge Solenopsis colony on caffeine and be glad ants don't drink it.
And many Carnivorous plants such as: Dionea muscipula (fly trap), Sarracenia x 'Fiona' ( American Pitcher plant), Nepenthese ventrata (Tropical Pitcher plant), and Pinguicula agnata x emarginata (Butterwort) (show off your plants here)
Go to the ant, you sluggard; consider its ways and be wise! It has no commander, no overseer or ruler, yet it stores it's provisions in summer and gathers its food at harvest. Proverbs 6: 6-8
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Posted October 15 2024 - 12:19 PM
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Caffeine does not affect insects like it does humans.
"God made..... all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds (including ants). And God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25 NIV version
Keeping:
Formica cf. pallidefulva, cf. incerta, cf. argentea
Formica cf. aserva, cf. subintegra
Myrmica sp.
Lasius neoniger, brevicornis
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Posted October 15 2024 - 1:18 PM
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Posted October 15 2024 - 2:26 PM
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That’s valid, but he one can’t coat the whole bathroom in coffee.
That would be hysterical, I forgot my morning coffee so I am going to lick the bathroom walls
And for the infestation, how is it coming along?
Currently keeping:
1x Formica subsericea, (used to be polygynous) 20+ workers
1x Lasius umbratus, (Workers accepted) 25 workers with host brood (I think they are dead now lol)
1x Crematogaster cerasi 4 workers with brood (still growing)
As you watch your ants march, remember: every journey begins with a single step (or queen)-not just towards you, but towards a future woven by diligence and shared dreams - Me
(I lost braincells just to make this quote)
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Posted October 15 2024 - 2:55 PM
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Imagine a huge Solenopsis colony on caffeine and be glad ants don't drink it.
Ummmmm....
Acute exposure to caffeine improves foraging in an invasive ant
Argentine ants, Linepithema humile, are a particularly concerning invasive species. Control efforts often fall short likely due to a lack of sustained bait consumption. Using neuroactives, such as caffeine, to improve ant learning and navigation could increase recruitment and consumption of toxic baits. Here, we exposed L. humile to a range of caffeine concentrations and a complex ecologically relevant task: an open landscape foraging experiment. Without caffeine, we found no effect of consecutive foraging visits on the time the ants take to reach a reward, suggesting a failure to learn the reward’s location. However, under low to intermediate caffeine concentrations ants were 38% faster with each consecutive visit, implying that caffeine boosts learning. Interestingly, such improvements were lost at high doses. In contrast, caffeine had no impact on the ants’ homing behavior. Adding moderate levels of caffeine to baits could improve ant’s ability to learn its location, improving bait efficacy.
Edited by Ants_Dakota, October 15 2024 - 2:57 PM.
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Posted October 15 2024 - 3:14 PM
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if you really want them gone, go outside to where your bathroom is, look for the colony out there, then pour boiling water into their entrance-hole and you will cook the larvae and most of the colony.
that's a good way to combat argentine ants, btw. its best to just find the colony IMO. poison baits are known to induce budding, i tried them all and the only way we got rid of pharaohs was by shampooing the carpet
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