Have two or three large ant hills and one gigantic. Need non-lethal approach to induce migration. Will orange oil do this?
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Yes you can use orange oil as a mound drench. You will want to mix at a higher rate. (4-6 ounces per gallon of water) Pour right on top of the mound and it will kill any ant that it touches.
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Hi Janet, Thanks for your question. In response, its very simple and easy to use. Basically, you just add 2-3 drops of vegetable oil to the cup, swish it around and coat the inside, then dump out the excess. Then you hang between your shepard's pole/branch/whatever you hang your bird feeder on, and the ants won't be able to cross the oil barrier to get to your bird food. Just need to add more vegetable oil every week or so, as it eventually evaporates/gets rained on. Also, unlike many of our competitors, our ant moat is made to provide a NON-TOXIC way to deal with these type ants. Its safe for your kids and pets because no chemicals are used or needed. If you have any other questions, just let us know... Mark
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I haven't tried it for ants...but peppermint oil sure works for ants and spiders!
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I used the Terro outdoor liquid and bait 6 pack T1806, as I could see them outside and this worked really well. I used 2 bait traps and placed them where they already had a trail to follow. I have not seen anymore big black ants in the house. I have used the small bait traps in the house with success but you need to keep them away from children and pets. Again you need to find the trail where they come into the area where they are located and put the trap where they have to walk on it or through it coming in or going out. Ants follow a path and don't change the path unless you do some thing to interrupt it. In the spring flying ants come out of the nests and fly off to make new nests, if you see them, kill them, use a spray, by hand, or knock them out of the air to the grown and step on them. I have used most of there products for ants and they have worked very well for me. Just read and follow the directions.
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Wow, are the ants smarter in California? I would check the bowl for any debris or damage that might provide a pathway for the ants. I'm in Sonoma and no problems. :). Karen
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I would say No. However the bait is thick enough that it would stick to the tree. It will attract the ants especially if you put it on the trail up or down the tree. It works great!
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I found an area on my foundation where I saw ants. I simply squeezed a small amount of gel bait in crevices and at the base of an adjoining fence. I ten sprinkled the dust around the general area. The ants were attracted to the gel and travel through the dust bringing the poison back to the colony. I killed all ants in 2 weeks (made 2 applications). Very effective product. Worth the money.
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I did not use the spray or traps. I don't see my answer from earlier, but, I am sure that I mentioned that I used the powder, and just poured it around the hill. Next day: no ants anymore. You have to find the hill, but, the ants are big and easy to track. Watch your feet and keep moving. One bite will let you know that you were not alert.
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It will and bugs. But works well . Use less and no ants . Way less more often and this stuff youcant beat the yield increase.
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Hey! I've been fighting 10 acres of fireants at my outdoor concert facility. Yes it killed/moved the ants fairly well however treating 3-500 mounds several times a year would have been insanely expensive. The most effective cost efficient method has come down to poke a hole in the mound as deep as you can. Pour a dribble of gasoline into the hole. Kill the queen and the mound is done. Miss her and there's a new mound. Estimate 80/90% effective. Yeah yeah... Not eco correct but 5 gallons a year verses a couple hundred lbs. of approved poison... Seems better to me.
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add a large bloob of petroleum jelly Vaseline on the hook where they climb on tot the feeder. Works for me the ants can't cross the petroleum jelly
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Greg, In general its not a wise choice to spray any kind of concentrate for ants. The reasons are many but the big one is that they can detect most any active. And once they detect it, they'll stay off the treated surface and avoid where its been applied. This will usually force them elsewhere and essentially complicate the situation. And since the ants you see represent less 10% of the local nest, even if you did kill all the ones you see it wouldn't solve the problem. So what do you do? Well for starters, don't spray inside the home. Instead use a bait. Something like Maxforce Ant Gel or Optigard Ant Gel. These options will readily be accepted by any foraging ant and within a few days, be brought back to their nest and once ingested, kill a bunch of the colony. At the same time you should spray the homes exterior with a "non repellent" active such as Phantom, Optigard Flex or Dominion. These actives won't be detectable by the ants and in turn, they'll readily walk over the treatment. This will allow them to "transfer" the active to other members of their colony so when the active finally does "kicks in" and goes to work, it will kill most if not the entire nest. That will usually happen in 3-4 days following the initial application. The good news is any ants surviving this will in turn know to stay away from the old ant trails for fear of something "bad" in the area so even if you don't kill them all, the non repellents will usually take care of the problem by forcing them elsewhere. Give us a call if you need more advice; its kind of hard to explain all of this via a post. Cheers, Jonathan Customer Care U-Spray Bugspray
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Yes, just make sure you put the pressure sprayer wand into the mound. Works on our fire ants but you need to get it to., the queen to eliminate the colony.
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I had no luck with this trap. I followed the directions by placing it the suggested distance in the flight path of the yellow jackets and they just flew right by :o( Ultimately, we ended up having Orkin treat the nest, which was under the siding of my mother-in-law's house. Yellow jackets are extremely dangerous and will swarm. I wouldn't suggest this for yellow jackets. I returned the trap and the replacement cartridges. A professional exterminator will treat them and guarantee the extermination.
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The original version of this product killed them. The label says it does but the recent EPA guidelines forces Terro to create a less toxic blend of chemicals. This means it doesn't kill Ants anymore, they just find another route out of their colony. If you have a fire ant colony, this will keep them from coming out the entrance you spread it on, but they'll most likely just move the entrance a few feet or a few meters. To eradicate, you may need a homemade solution that is less environmentally friendly. I've sprinkled this dust directly on carpenter ants and fire ants outside the colony. Both didn't like it, but they ultimately survived and so did the colony I tried to block entrance to. This is more for taking care of the areas where they force a huge mountain of dirt onto your lawn, than for dealing with the reason it got put there.
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It's not a concentrate. Use as is and spray ants from a distance of 8 to 12 inches.
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It is the oil that keeps the ants out. I don't believe an earwig could tolerate the oil either. As the oil sticks to their feet and they can not hold on. I have never had one in my feeder.