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Marri81
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Wild ants

Post: # 70837Post Marri81
Tue Jun 02, 2020 3:26 pm

Hi, I have some pavement ants who are insisting on making a nest in my mailbox. My father has started killing them, but they keep coming back and moving in the brood, piling living brood on top of the dead bodies of workers and brood from their last attempt. Is there a way to convince them to move into a formicarium where we can watch them instead of our mailbox where they will be killed by my father?

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CabboAntsGuy
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Re: Wild ants

Post: # 70904Post CabboAntsGuy
Wed Jun 03, 2020 9:22 am

short answer: no
long answer: short of manually dumping them in and not getting the queen, no
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Marri81
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Re: Wild ants

Post: # 70935Post Marri81
Wed Jun 03, 2020 6:37 pm

dang. I was hoping to find a way to save them. Thanks so much

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Re: Wild ants

Post: # 70946Post CabboAntsGuy
Wed Jun 03, 2020 9:24 pm

you could try to take some of them and not all(not the queen either) and put them into some sort of container to let them live out their lives and there instead of dying from pesticide.
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Marri81
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Re: Wild ants

Post: # 70952Post Marri81
Wed Jun 03, 2020 10:41 pm

I was hoping to convince them that an open formicarium is a better home than my mail box. If they don't stop attempting dad threatened to get ant traps that poison the whole nest. I don't mind them so I don't want them dead, but I'm the only ant lover in the house.

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Re: Wild ants

Post: # 71039Post CabboAntsGuy
Fri Jun 05, 2020 11:02 am

I know it's hard being the only ant lover. Well, you could try to put something out there with a healthy drop of honey and see if you could maybe get them to bring the queen out, but it would be near impossible to convince the colony to move the queen. If you can some how find the queen if she's already moved into the mail box, then you might be able to capture her and as many workers, eggs, and brood as you can. Besides those two options, there is nothing else you can do. sorry.
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2 formica subsericea
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Re: Wild ants

Post: # 71042Post QJH2023
Fri Jun 05, 2020 11:32 am

CabboAntsGuy wrote:
Fri Jun 05, 2020 11:02 am
I know it's hard being the only ant lover. Well, you could try to put something out there with a healthy drop of honey and see if you could maybe get them to bring the queen out, but it would be near impossible to convince the colony to move the queen. If you can some how find the queen if she's already moved into the mail box, then you might be able to capture her and as many workers, eggs, and brood as you can. Besides those two options, there is nothing else you can do. sorry.
been there every day I have to remind mom that my ants won't escape especially my favorite colony as there camponotus nova. so moms always scared their going to move into the walls
keeper of: 41xCamponotus novaeboracensis, Crematogaster spp. and unidentified species and tapinoma sessile

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