Re: I have an ant problem, too.

Suzie-Q wrote:

> I have ants in my attic. I only know that because they have
> come out to take over one of my hummingbird feeders.
> 
> I'm in central Texas, and these ants seem to be red and
> black. Slightly bigger than fire ants. I've never seen
> them in the house.
> 
> If I stick up one of those ant bait things near the hole
> where they enter/exit to get to the hummingbird feeder,
> is there any chance they'll visit it and carry the bait
> back to the rest of the colony? Or must I take more drastic
> measures?
> 
> Thanks,
> 

Google Acrobat Ant and then look under images and see if that is not 
what you have...they will all be the same size where carp ants will be a 
variety of sizes. I have heard Terro works on them if you apply it where 
they are entering the structure but I have never tried it myself.


acrobat ants..not the best pic but the abdomen of these ants are heart 
shaped and they ant will be the same sized many times closely trailing 
each other.  http://www.arrow-pestcontrol.com/acrobatant.JPG

carenter ants... their trails will be made up of different sized ants 
and their trails will have the nants spaced out from each other... they 
will have a rounder to more oblong abdomen 
http://www.arrow-pestcontrol.com/csw1.JPG
Lar