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Making an ant bait is so easy that it’s hardly worth thinking about buying a commercial one (some of which don’t work that well, anyway).  You can do it yourself in four simple steps. Step One: Find a container.  Anything small will do, but you might want to use something that you can throw away after you’re done with it, such as a small paper cup.  (I use a plastic applesauce [...]

            If you decide that chemical treatment can provide the best solution to your pest problem, and you want to control the pests yourself rather than turning the problem over to a professional pest control operator, then you have an important decision to make: which product to choose. Before making that decision, learn as much as you can about a product’s [...]

              If you practice preventive techniques such as those mentioned above, you will reduce your chances, or frequency, of pest infestation. However, if you already have an infestation, are there any pest control alternatives besides chemical pesticides? The answer is an emphatic “yes.” One or a combination of several non-chemical treatment alternatives [...]

              There is another important question to ask in making pest control decisions: is there something on your premises that needlessly invites pest infestations? The answer to this question may lead you to take some common-sense steps to modify pest habitat. * Remove water sources. All pests, vertebrate or invertebrate, need water for survival. Fix leaky [...]

              THEY’RE THERE. Whether you see them or not, you know they’re there–in your home, your vegetable garden, your lawn, your fruit and shade trees, your flowers, and on your pets. They are pests–insects, weeds, fungi, rodents, and others. American households and their surrounding grounds are frequent hosts to common structural pests [...]

If you can stop ants at their entry point, you’ve won the battle if not the war against them. Of course, you’ll never get rid of them—there are just too many. But you can stop them from coming into your home. All you need is persistence and a good eye. First, look all around the outer perimeter of your dwelling for where the trail of ants leads into a crack or opening.  You might have to pull [...]

>In Bogota, Columbia moviegoers eat roasted ant abdomens instead of popcorn. Because they contain formic acid, they reportedly have a very spicy flavor. >Ants communicate with each other in ten to twenty different ways (depending on the species), mostly through chemicals called pheromones. Because an ant colony is more a superorganism than a collection of thousands of individuals, these chemicals [...]

Different ants eat different kinds of food. Many species prefer sugary substances like the honeydew excreted by aphids (or anything sweet or sticky you’ve spilled around your home), while others like greasy or fatty things, and still others will eat just about anything. No matter what they eat, though, ants do not actually digest solid food, but transform everything into a liquid. To locate sources [...]

One of the first things you have to do when ants invade your home is figure out whether they’re coming in from the outside or have established a nest or nests somewhere inside. Some signs that ants are coming in from outside are: >The ants inside are following a trail back outside. >You can see where and how ants from outside are coming in. >There are nests near the building—mounds in [...]

>In Australia, aborigines use honey from honeypot ants for food, medicine, and making alcohol. >There are more than 15,000 species of ants all over the world in the temperate and tropical regions, and their combined numbers are so great (one quadrillion, to be more or less exact—which is one billion million) that they might as well be infinite. >Some ant queens live from 15 to 25 years. >Ants [...]