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Came home to ants in my enclosures- talk about a fun evening.
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<blockquote data-quote="Jenniferinfl" data-source="post: 198619" data-attributes="member: 37398"><p>So, I sort of live bordering a state forest and there's a ton of wildlife and I don't treat for pests unless absolutely necessary. Needless to say, my yard is a bit 'buggy'. Spent the whole day at a reptile show, found out that during my absence a bunch of ants found a crack between the seals in a bedroom window and came in by the hundreds to invade the large display cabinet I'm using to keep my spiderlings safe from the felines. Two enclosures had dead cricket remains because I had to give a couple slings prekilled crickets as the shop only had large crickets instead of the smalls I usually buy. So, there were leftovers in there all day because I fed them at 7 am when I woke up. I siliconed the gap in the window, hit the trail of ants outside with diatomaceous earth and now I have the feet of the display cabinet sitting in little plates of diatomaceous earth. I took all my sling enclosures out, spent the evening squishing ants, most enclosures only had a couple, so it wasn't too bad. Except, who wants to squish ants in an H. maculata's enclosure? Oh yeah, nobody. I had to completely rehouse my T. violaceous and M. balfouri cause they had the cricket remains that attracted the ants in the first place.</p><p></p><p>Anyhow, that was a whole, brand-new issue for me. I've never had ants before. Is it likely the diatomaceous earth will do the trick? So far so good as they'll have to find another route in, but, I guess it still remains to be seen if they find another way in other than the window.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jenniferinfl, post: 198619, member: 37398"] So, I sort of live bordering a state forest and there's a ton of wildlife and I don't treat for pests unless absolutely necessary. Needless to say, my yard is a bit 'buggy'. Spent the whole day at a reptile show, found out that during my absence a bunch of ants found a crack between the seals in a bedroom window and came in by the hundreds to invade the large display cabinet I'm using to keep my spiderlings safe from the felines. Two enclosures had dead cricket remains because I had to give a couple slings prekilled crickets as the shop only had large crickets instead of the smalls I usually buy. So, there were leftovers in there all day because I fed them at 7 am when I woke up. I siliconed the gap in the window, hit the trail of ants outside with diatomaceous earth and now I have the feet of the display cabinet sitting in little plates of diatomaceous earth. I took all my sling enclosures out, spent the evening squishing ants, most enclosures only had a couple, so it wasn't too bad. Except, who wants to squish ants in an H. maculata's enclosure? Oh yeah, nobody. I had to completely rehouse my T. violaceous and M. balfouri cause they had the cricket remains that attracted the ants in the first place. Anyhow, that was a whole, brand-new issue for me. I've never had ants before. Is it likely the diatomaceous earth will do the trick? So far so good as they'll have to find another route in, but, I guess it still remains to be seen if they find another way in other than the window. [/QUOTE]
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