My kitchen was getting overrun with argentines, so I decided to hunt down their nest. Tracked their trails to a crack between the fence and dirt in my backyard. So I used a water hose and flooded them out. After 10 minutes, the ants were taking their brood up the fence, and a few queens followed. I nabbed 4-5 queens into a test tube, and a bunch of the ants. Then throughly sprayed the fence and trails with Raid, and poured boiling water down the nest. Hope that will keep their numbers down temporarily.
I took the queens and popped them into a quickly made hydrostone outworld in a madeline container and dumped all the captive ants in there as well. I contained them with a moat of water since they were crawling up baby powder barrier with ease.
After 1 day, over 75% of them had fell into the soapy water moat. The few that are left huddle between the rocks, or are pretty inactive inside the test tube.
It seems they do need a lot of area for foraging and trails. I've left sugar water, honey, jam, crackers, chicken in the outworld - all things they normally swarm over in the kitchen, but in captivity, they seem uninterested.
Let's see how they do over next few weeks. There is a small egg bundle laid by the queens in the tube but I don't know if they are being fed well enough to sustain.
Edited by Straywolf94, June 16 2018 - 7:59 PM.
. If you want to give your utmost care to this colony, don't do it, and follow Derpy's advice. If you want to make it a hellhole for them, by all means, do it! I would poison them with borax for 24 hours, then release them into the wild to infect more. Rinse and repeat.
