Second Chance 2
Posted : 7/8/2010 1:37:44 AM
Face, I know what you mean, I had the same problem with
outdoor electric boxes where I used to work. they would get into
the breakers and cause them to go pow. LOL
I used an ant poison that was a thick liquid that you put on little
squares of paper and just lay them in the box.
they carry the bait (food)back to the main colony where they eat it and
die. It had arsenic in it.
Hunter when an ant colony gets so big the extra queens (ones with wings)
take off to start a new colony.
To deduce whether the insect is a flying ant, look closely at the body. Ants have three separate body parts: head, thorax (chest), and
abdomen (tail). The legs of an ant are all attached to the thorax just behind the head in the midsection of the insect. The thorax joins the abdomen in a very thin area that resembles a waist. Ants also have a distinctive and obvious near-90-degree bend in their antennae.
Flying termites only have a head and body. They do not have a thorax or a "waist". The legs of a
flying termite are attached all along the length of the body, rather than sprouting from one small area of the midsection. Furthermore, the antennae of flying termites tend to sweep forward, but lack the telltale right-angle bend of the ant's antennae.
The double-set wings of a termite are of equal length, while the double-set wings of an ant are not. However this may be harder to notice if the insect has its wings folded back along its body.
Biology lesson for today. LOL.