How do you get the ants?
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The farm comes with a certificate, you order them and they are sent to your house in a test tube.
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use a pole to raise the base of the ant. 15 ft above the roof use a good ground, stay clear of power lines you should do good.
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The way it works is the ants swarm the stuff, and then carry it back to the colony / nest where the other ants eat it, as well as the queen. It's a slow-acting poison. When it kills the queen.....no more ants. I found that this particular brand is VERY slow acting. The tough part (with any ant bait like this) is that you have to just let them swarm so they can take the poison back to the colony.
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It works fantastically on the majority of common household ants. However, depending on geographical locale, there are some specialty variety ants which require very specific remedies. I mix two different baits. One uses peanut butter the other jelly or jam. About 1teaspoon boric acid to two tablespoons of either mixture. Mouse ants are drawn to either protein based (pb) or sugar based (jelly/jam) foods. Mouthing both out covers your bases. Explorer ants find the goodies and carry them back to the nest where other ants and larvae are red and poisoned by them. Other ants follow the explorers' trails and repeat the process. Before long, no more ants. You may have to pay with the proportions. Too much boric acid and the explorers die before they reach the nest or do not touch it to begin with. Too little acid and all we do is give our house visitors a really good free treat. Of course the baits must be kept out of reach of children and pets. Good hunting!
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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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I bring my bowls inside to clean them regularly and have never found an ant inside any of them. If you don't want to bring them inside, you can always take a bucket of hot, soapy water outside and clean them there.
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If it's like mine, you fill the top, which is directly under the hook for hanging, with water. Ants come down the hook and----SPLASH!!!!! Make sure the rest of the feeder isn't leaning up against any branches. They usually enter from the rope it is hanging on.
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You can't get a refill of the gel but when the old ants die you can rinse out the tunnels with water and get new ants. They won't be as active as the first ants because there isn't as much work to be done.
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Had the same problem myself. Go to their web site. Use the contact us and email them. Calling won't work they do not answer. Tell them you have two orders without the voucher. They will email you back in 3 to 5 days with a coupon code to order the ants online. Cost about $5 per order
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You just have to set them out. Mine work great. It takes a couple days. It doesnt kill the ants that come to eat it. They take the food back to the queen, she eats it and dies. Then once the queen dies, the rest of the colony will die out also.
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If the ants are any larger than a very small gnat, the net will pick them up. Smaller than that, and some of them might pass through, but most of them would likely still be collected.
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I've only used this product and have found that it does an amazing job. You will have to put up with hundreds of ants for a few hours as they all eat the bait, but in less than a day's time, there is usually not a trace. When it rains and the ground is wet, they may return, but just use the same procedure. This doesn't exactly answer your question, but it may help.
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I'm no ant expert, but I had the same thing happen to me. The ants just went around them. I left them out anyway, and after a few days, they started to go into the bait traps. A few days after that, no more ants. I don't know if there's human scent on them from handling them or what. Maybe you can try putting a tiny amount of something ants like (sugar, e.g.) in or on the traps just to get them on or into them.
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It seems to me that the angle of the feeder keeps them off. They fly by and check it out, but then move on. As an added bonus, we wipe a couple of drops of vinegar on the pole near the base when we refill the feeder, keeping the ants off.
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You can either send away for them from the company (they are free, but they don't come with the ant farm), or you can go collect them yourself outside. I found it was much easier to just send away for them! However, be advised that the company doesn't send you a queen ant, so your colony will die off in a few months. You can collect a queen ant yourself, or I think you can pay extra and get one from the company.
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We have evil black ants that get into everything. I have the feeder off the ground on a little plywood painted base that's raised about one inch off the floor.then I just use a cheap paint brush and brush the legs with dish soap. I have (dawn) I have to redo it from time to time just like I do with the base of our pet food buckets.
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Hi, funny you ask this. I have 2 of these feeders, and I have ants on one and NO ants on other. Mine are hang off the floor of a deck. The one that has NO ants is being hung from a copper wire from deck then a bungee cord attached to feeder NO ANTS. I think typically you fill the center with water and they drown. But if you can try the copper wire and for some reason they don't climb down it. A friend told me about this and it works!!!! I hope this helps you and I've answered your question.Lana