Purple sheet is a white plastic sheet coated with babypowder+alcohol mixture and left to dry
The sheet is weighted down by a stick of some kind
The blacklight sits in the middle of the sheet and illuminates the sheet from the inside
The sides of the sheet form a V shape guide so that ants that fly into it go into the trough below the sheet (+ is hard to grip)
The trough will be filled with water, queens don't tend to drown too easily but they do stop moving when they hit water, this way they won't fight.
Benefits:
Cheap to make
Compact when disassembled
Large surface area which makes for a better target
Blacklight target is visible from most directions
Queens don't kill each other
Potential problems:
Looking at the target perfectly profile makes for a smaller target
Drowned queens
Wind problems? Dunno
I think I saw this type of design elsewhere but I don't recall where.. not quite the same, but similar. When I construct this I'll take photos.
Thoughts?
Edited by soulsynapse, March 23 2017 - 12:56 AM.
