I live overseas and can't send ants through the mail. Can I add my own ants? I have plenty of them in my garden.
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try it.It is possible that they might be more vulnerable to disease. Let's find out.
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I'm no expert on ants by no means but I would imagine if your ant are just garden variety ants, you could try. I don't see how it could harm
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According to the directions it says yes but they are probably smaller. However, that may be good because the large ones I got tried to break out and ate through the seal! Perhaps smaller ants wouldn't do that.
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I'm not sure myself - but when I had questions - I contacted John Wilcock (john@antsalive.com) who is the person noted on my paperwork for the Ant Farm to contact with questions. Hope this helps.
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From your pants of course! -- Ok, seriously just go to live-ants.com and order them at the same time you order the ant farm.
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Hi Chatita, Thanks for your question. In response, just like Stefan had been so kind to respond, the vast majority of ants will simply turn back from the moat and look for food elsewhere. Hope this helps, and I hope you have a blessed evening,Mark
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In Georgia, I have applied Termidor in early April due to the amount of rain we have received this year. It has worked quite well for our Fire Ants even though they still spread because the rain has a tendency to drive them from their nests and make them seek other places, such as hollow trees and some man-made places such as car ports, etc.I will re-apply when the rain ceases for a week or so straight in a stretch.Great stuff, though. I wish you well.
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I am experiencing the same problem in Huntington Beach, CA. I bought bowls just like these on Amazon over a year ago, and they worked perfectly. Then someone stole those bowls. I ordered another set a couple months ago, and they are not working at all!!! I am wondering if the design has changed. With your situation, I am wondering if the ants are smaller (?) and can make it up the slippery sides more easily....? Are they the exact same bowls?
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I have yet to find an ant species that doesn't like this product. Granted, yours may be a different variety but I have seen it attract and kill at least 2 different types (Black and Crazy).
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Yes absolutely I had the worst ant problem I have ever seen when I moved into my new home. They moved in because of a drought in Texas. The first two days I did not see much of a difference and was about to write a bad review, but I had to go out of town, I left and when I came back the next week there were no more ants, not a single one, in fact it has been almost a year and I still haven't seen one inside or outside since. This stuff is amazing. Also my dog ate 2 of the yard baits we were worried he would get sick but he was perfectly fine that's a plus also.
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The kit comes with an address to order ants. I did not appreciate the additional (nominal)cost and felt that the cost of ants should be included, but it wasn't much.
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Good idea. It is safe to do that. Just try to place it in the path of some ants so they can find it and lay a scent trail back to the colony so the others can ingest and spread it as well.
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I think the product works well. Last Spring, most days I saw a couple carpenter ants here and a couple there - outside my house. And in a 1-week period - 3 inside my house (The ones inside my house might have come inside to forage for food because they just woke up from hibernating somewhere outside). I sprinkled about 1/2 bottle around the outside of my house and now I haven't seen any ants - not even the smaller black ones that are usually outside my house. Now that the ants are less of them - or gone, the spiders in the grass have multiplied - More spiders in my house.
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I use it at the base of my raised beds. The garden is fenced so my animals cannot get to it. I would not use it next to my actual plants because I think the ants carry it down into my soil. Hope this helps some.
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Of the 60 ants that we received about six weeks ago, only a couple have died. It seems that the other ants move them to a corner of ant farm to make a graveyard. They go on with their other activities. Opening the top to let O2 in makes them very active, and one time a few escaped. I may have pinched one when I closed the top, and this may have contributed to one ant's early demise. At this point, I'm not sure if an ant will die here and there or if the entire colony will expire at some end point.
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I ordered 2 batches of ants since i heard a lot die in shipment. I added food and the ice pack since it said they can take a long time in shipment. The food was not with the ants and the ice pack was needed. Total was $40 for just the ants (with shipping) and I ended up with 22 live ants.
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The granules would seep into the ground and so would their toxins. I use the plastic bait system in and around my garden to keep ants down. I find that it works quite well. Ants are not a problem in my garden now.
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It's possible, this poison, dries them out from the inside. If the ants eat it or get it on them, it should kill them. If you spread it around their nest that should help but keep it away from animals and children. I spread it in the backs of cupboards and underneath drawers.
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I had absolute success with these. It took about a week for me to be absolutely sure, but after I placed three of them in the spaces outside my house where I found the ants entering, they completely gave up on my house and directed all of their interest in the baits. A few of the ants weren't impressed, but they didn't want to enter my house either, they had jumped ship days before I placed the poisons and were trying to start a new way of life. The rest of them crumbled. After all of the ants are gone, be sure to pick up and throw away the bait containers. I wouldn't want squirrels or dogs to eat them. I had absolute success with these. It took about a week for me to be absolutely sure, but after I placed three of them in the spaces outside my house where I found the ants entering, they completely gave up on my house and directed all of their interest in the baits. A few of the ants weren't impressed, but they didn't want to enter my house either, they had jumped ship days before I placed the poisons and were trying to start a new way of life. The rest of them crumbled. After all of the ants are gone, be sure to pick up and throw away the bait containers. I wouldn't want squirrels or dogs... » Read More I had absolute success with these. It took about a week for me to be absolutely sure, but after I placed three of them in the spaces outside my house where I found the ants entering, they completely gave up on my house and directed all of their interest in the baits. A few of the ants weren't impressed, but they didn't want to enter my house either, they had jumped ship days before I placed the poisons and were trying to start a new way of life. The rest of them crumbled. After all of the ants are gone, be sure to pick up and throw away the bait containers. I wouldn't want squirrels or dogs to eat them. « Show Less
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I have one installed in my kitchen and unfortunately I still have ants..no mice though.