Some new invasive ants are driving biologists crazy, but research into control methods is underway at the lab and in the field. To learn more about invasive species in Texas or to report sightings, visit: www.texasinvasives.org
For anyone dealing with a Yellow Crazy Ant infestation I have a new discovery to share! Last night I steamed some crab legs and left the steam pot on the stove lazily, this morning there were my nemesis the yellow crazy ants on the pot. When I picked up the pot I noticed something though, quite a few ants had drown in the shallow water. So I decided on an experiment and put a small pile of cane sugar into the water to dissolve and set the pot outside near an area with lots of ant activity, it's only been out there for 3 hours and there are hundreds and hundreds of drowned ants already. I think I'll add a little water when they get thick enough to create an island of bodies, hopefully it works because nothing else has so far. I wonder if other meat waters would have the same effect?
@@catsinq5726 It works decently but my new favorite method is next level. Requires gel ant poison, an old berry container, a piece of cardboard, and some diatomaceous earth. What you do is put the gel poison inside the berry container place it on the cardboard and create a circular mound of diatomaceous earth around the container. The cardboard is for easy cleanup. This method does some serious damage to them in a good radius around where your doing it. There's no way to get rid of them completely though as they are always multiplying elsewhere and will again look to expand their territory into my property.
Unless you actually know about ants determination keys and morphology and identified them with a microscope, you can't really tell if that's this species. There's 12 000 thousands of species of ants discovered so far so unless you're interested in them you can't really know wich specie you're facing.
Hawaii had a huge infestation on Johnston Atoll. They need to reach out to them as the videos I've seen didn't specify exactly what they used to eradicate them but it was a pesticide, mixed with sugar and they'd take the crystals back to the nest.
yes, check out the YT channel Ants Canada, that guy keeps several species of ants as pets. Very cinematic channel with professional editing... not as dull as it sounds. He's got over 3M followers...
i believe that if you maintain a small population of crazy ants tho, they might also be able to reduce the negative effects of fire ants. Maybe instead of trying to artificially eradicate invasive species, native species should be provided with advantages that reduce the pressure on them and allow them to naturally cope.
I have never had any luck with Jeannie eating ants. They’ll eat everything else but of all the different types of Guinea hens I have they just don’t touch an ant unless they see a solitary one they will eat him out of boredom
Every few months there's an explosion and they *get... in... everything* . Every surface in the house is covered in them and no matter what you do, they keep coming and you keep sweeping them out. Then they're gone for a couple months.
I refill my sodastream cartridges with (CHEAP) dry ice I buy at the grocery store. I'm wondering if I should bag my electronics in trash bags with the leftover dry ice and allowing the buggers to die from CO2 asphyxiation. Would very high CO2 levels damage any of my electronics?
