Re: I have an ant problem, too.

In article <48509c1f$0$12951$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Lar <larflu@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> 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


I'll have to look again. These are probably the acrobat ants. They were
trailing pretty close to each other.

I read about mixing just a little boric acid with some jelly and putting
it near the opening. I think I'll try that. Think it'll work?

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