What happens to the ants that won't be able to cross the barrier to get to the bird food.
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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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The easier way to prevent ants from crawling along the wire used to hang a hummingbird feeder is to spray the wire with a spray cooking oil. Ants do not like cooking oil and turn back from it.
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I don't think it will eat that. It'll close but it'll open back up again in a few minutes. If you feed it anything it's gotta be something that will struggle a little bit; that encourages the trap to stay closed. You can let it fend for itself, or get small ants or similar bugs and feed those to it.
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The bees are still attracted to this feeder but can't get in the "yellow blossom" holes. Ants are the biggest problem as they can enter through the "yellow blossom" holes. I try to deter the ants by putting a strip of double-sticking tape on the window glass surrounding and away from the feeder. Thedouble-sticking tape on the window glass doesn't look great but it does the trick.
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We have had no problems with either ants or bees. Our feeder is on a large picture window and is about 6 ft above ground level and about 10" above the window frame. We have hummers visiting the feeder from 6:30 in the morning until 8:30 in the evening. The fact that we are sitting close to the window doesn't bother them at all. OH BOY - CAN THEY EAT!!!!! The best feeder we have ever had and we have had many.
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We were told ants like to search for their food. In other words, if you put it directly in their path, they will avoid it. We put ours on the opposite corner of the house that our infestation was. It seemed to work. I guess we will have to wait for spring to see for sure.
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I am sure ants would be able to get inside this unit. i would not use it outside.
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Yes, it does. However, my husband created a barrier of Ajax to fix the problem while we were on vacation. The automatic feeder sits on our outside potting table. Under each leg of the table, he made an aluminum foil bowl (or you use a plastic dish) filled with Ajax. The ants couldn't pass the Ajax and the food was safe. The only problem was the neighbor cat figured out the feeding schedule and the pigeons would fly in to grab a meal.
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The cup hangs from the hook on the pole, and then you hang the hummingbird feeder from a hook on the bottom of the cup. The ants may climb up the pole, but they can't get through the cup of water without drowning, so they can't get to the feeder.
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I would say yes. They could enter though the tray area. This is not a problem for us, we haven't had ants in the dog run.
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Nothing. Actually, there are "ant" guards you can buy that can be forced into the hole that help. I mostly bring them out when we sit on the porch in the afternoon. The hummingbirds find it quickly, but the bees don't. The other option that's works temporarily on the one we leave out all the time is to spray the tip. It seems to affect the wasps but not the hummers.
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I don't know. It works by cutting their exoskeleton which ants have. So may depend on if you can get them to travel through it.
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The feed ports have to extend downward so the plastic can slide on them. I wasn't to pleased, because ants and bees still managed to get in.
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Thank you for the question. I am sorry wee do not sell something similar for large ants.
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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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Not sure what you mean exactly...but you just hook your feeder to the ant trap,,,the trap itself is about 2 inches, It looks a little weird, but it works beautifully. We had ants for the two years before we got the trap and now there are none. I have heard that once the ants learn they can't get to the feeder, they won't even try to come back. Hope this helps
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Yes, they will carry poison back to nest and the poison will draw out more.Also ants usually show up around water sources, that is really what they are after. I have had great luck wiping out the ants w/ this product.
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The ants climb up the pole and head toward the food source. To get to the food source they have to climb down to the Trap-It and fall into the water. This is the best solution I have found to deter ants from getting into my hummingbird feeders. Works great!