Ants easy to fight
LITTLE black ants (<i>monomorium<br>minimum</i> or <i>munyeera</i> in<i> Luganda</i>) are common house ants which nest in woodwork, masonry, soil and rotten wood. They feed on sweets, meats, vegetables, honeydew and other insects.
LITTLE black ants (monomorium
minimum or munyeera in Luganda) are common house ants which nest in woodwork, masonry, soil and rotten wood. They feed on sweets, meats, vegetables, honeydew and other insects.
Workers are about 1/8 inch long, slender, shiny black, sometimes dark brown with two nodes in the petiole. They nest in the ground and are detected by the very small craters of fine soil.
Control Measures:
The most important is to locate the nest and destroy the colony.
Sometimes a chunk of jelly, spoonful of honey, pile of sugar or piece of bacon, placed near the site where ants are found, will attract them and once the route is discovered, treatment can be made in the crack or crevice, reducing or eliminating the problem.
Apply insecticides only as crack, crevice or hole treatments, avoiding food and contamination. Dusts, like bendiocarb (Ficam) or chlorpyrifos (Dursban), puffed into holes destroys these ants. But, apply in light amounts.
solube2005@yahoo.co.uk
minimum or munyeera in Luganda) are common house ants which nest in woodwork, masonry, soil and rotten wood. They feed on sweets, meats, vegetables, honeydew and other insects.
Workers are about 1/8 inch long, slender, shiny black, sometimes dark brown with two nodes in the petiole. They nest in the ground and are detected by the very small craters of fine soil.
Control Measures:
The most important is to locate the nest and destroy the colony.
Sometimes a chunk of jelly, spoonful of honey, pile of sugar or piece of bacon, placed near the site where ants are found, will attract them and once the route is discovered, treatment can be made in the crack or crevice, reducing or eliminating the problem.
Apply insecticides only as crack, crevice or hole treatments, avoiding food and contamination. Dusts, like bendiocarb (Ficam) or chlorpyrifos (Dursban), puffed into holes destroys these ants. But, apply in light amounts.
solube2005@yahoo.co.uk