we have fire ant problems up here and it is some mess. If you put down sherman traps with peanut butter, you will catch fire ants. Also, the fire ants will kill small mammals in the traps. I don't know if anyone else has experienced this or not. one of my students experimented with suspending the sherman traps from a tree (no kidding) and it actually worked, but I wouldn't think this would work very well
The best advice I can come up with if using funnel traps is to make the traps long enough that animals can move around and excape the ants. You could also try messing around with stickum borders like fly paper around the open tubes, but it is possible this could entrap small animals as well. This would take some experimentation and would likely be publishable with a structured design. On Thu, September 27, 2007 10:47 am, J. L. Kunna wrote: > Hi, > Looking for advice on how to deal with non-native Argentine ants swarming > over and killing small animals caught in my mesh funnel traps attached to > drift fences. > An ant-specific poison registered for outdoor use that doesn't affect > other > invertebrates would be nice. > Any other info would be helpful too. The study is on the effect of > prescribed fire, and I'd rather not confound it with a huge ant > eradication > project. > Thanks, > John > Malcolm L. McCallum Assistant Professor of Biology Editor Herpetological Conservation and Biology http://www.herpconbio.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
